That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 30, 2023

My original post from 2015:

The farmer’s wife hoped the animals would appreciate her quasi-kimono like dress more than her neglectful husband did.

/// Elsie’s man had been out the whole night.

Came home scratched red, and bled from a bite.

Claimed that crossing this field

a scared girl had appealed

for his help with a bull he must fight.

/// The beast gored him, and that’s why he’s gory.

Then he passed out unconscious and swore he

woke at dawn (heard the rooster),

so he’d never seduced her.

Elsie thought: “That’s a Cöck’n’Bull story.”

Milkmaid, faking nonchalance as she sneaks up on her target.

On her first day on the job Mary attempts to milk the chicken.

Rooster: “Hey, miss, you want some music while you work? I have a beautiful singing voice.”

“Let’s see. Was it milk the chicken and get an egg from the cow, or . . .”

well…free range milk sounded like a good idea’

Milking the cock-a-doodle turned out differently than Zelda’s friends had described.

This is the least Winslow-Homeric painting I’ve ever seen.

Cold hands does it every time.

All those Gocomics readers, wilfully refusing to see the obvious joke….

Florida milkmaids were disconcerted one day to find their Conservative legislature had passed a law that henceforth all milk cows had to wear brassieres in public. As for the bulls — it was going to be tricky business getting jockstraps on them!

The busker was on her bucket list.

City girl preparing to milk the chicken

Why does the milking stool only have three legs?………Because the cow has the udder!(Best 4th. Grade joke ever!)

Since the embarrassing milking mistake she made last week, Meredith and the bull now share knowing glances when they see one another across the field. (Bull not pictured)

“Some day my prince will come…..”

Rule #1 on how to milk a cow in the field. Whack it in the head with the milk stool.

We don’t talk about the “Bull” incident. Just. Don’t.

I hope the cow notices I have softened my hands with cream?

“Learn animal husbandry they said. Get out in the fresh air they said. BS and it’s everywhere!”

Once her bags are full, the cow will forgive her.

Every day Mary had to pause to remember whether cows were the ones with or without feathers.

“Look, lady, I’m a rooster; I have no dog in this fight. But I think the cow’s got a point when she says you should be using hand lotion- those palms look more scaly than my feet.”

“The Milk Maid,” 1878

They were two chicken…

The Milk Maid:

Paste (including the quote marks)

"File:The Milk Maid by Winslow Homer, 1878.png" site=commons.wikimedia.org

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first File: found, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1181 (3/30/15) (March 29, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 12 works by this artist have been used here (14 times total, including this Throwback Thursday and another repeat), the March 30, 2015, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The September 23, 2020, strip is the prior non-repeat by him.

Look out! Here comes Rosie with the cold hands again.

MARCY WAS UNSUSSFULL MILKING THE CHICKED AND DIDN’T DO MUCH BETTER GETTING EGGS FROM COW

Milkmaid making sure not to repeat yesterday’s mistake. Yup, it’s a cow, not a bull.

Did I just see a yellow man slink back into the bushes saying “Doh!”? How strange …

/// Free-range chickens laid eggs in the field,

so it’s hard to collect their whole yield.

Easter eggs, colored bright—

she can find those alright,

but these brown ones, from sight, are concealed.

/// Though the cattle can also run free,

those big milk cows are easy to see.

Still, her pail she can’t fill

if livestock won’t stand still.

Cows she milks should be tied to a tree.

“Hm. What did I come out here for?”

Cow: “About time you got here – I’m near about ready to bust !”

Rooster: “She takes a long time with her wardrobe. She just likes to look good !”

Hen: “Don’t be gettin’ any ‘funny’ ideas, Lothario !”