The Farmer's Daughter #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA traveling salesman named Orville attempts to romance the farmer's daughter but is repeatedly disrupted by her father and brother, who chase him away. In a separate story titled "What Happens When the Baby Arrives," a salesman seeking to buy a farm finds himself caught between a young couple and their newborn baby, as the wife uses the infant to keep the salesman close while her husband grows jealous.
A smooth-talking tonic salesman arrives at the farm hawking an old Indian remedy, but when Amy samples it and gets tipsy, she and the peddler strike up an unlikely partnership to bottle her kisses as a cure-all—only to discover that her affections don't quite have the miraculous kick they'd hoped for. This 1954 humor tale from The Farmer's Daughter spins a delightfully absurd yarn about misplaced confidence, unwanted side effects, and the hard lesson that some things just can't be commercialized.
A farm kid's logic turns everyday chores into hilarious misadventures in this two-page humor piece from 1954. When a young farm boy encounters everything from baby pigs to puzzled visitors, his innocent interpretations of the world lead to perfectly absurd results—whether he's washing his face or answering a straightforward question about farm life.
In this 1954 romp, a pair of bumbling robbers arrive at a farmhouse intent on stealing the family's savings, but the Farmer's Daughter has other ideas when one of them crosses her path—she'd rather distract her would-be burglar than see him get caught by her father. Between stolen kisses, misdirected bedroom visits, and a well-placed lie about a bear trap, Amy Dingle turns the tables on both the crook and his boss in a hilarious game of wits that keeps everyone tiptoeing around her snoring father.
Gig McCoy gets caught off guard when a marriage bureau director arrives with a suitable bride—turns out his pals played a prank by writing a letter requesting a wife on his behalf. When the director can't bear to disappoint the would-be bride (who spent $3.98 on a wedding dress), Gig decides to turn the tables with a joke of his own.
When a young man stops by the farm asking to leave his baby with Amy while he and his wife look at property nearby, her father jumps to the wrong conclusion—and his shotgun nearly starts a chain reaction of marital chaos. What unfolds is a comedic misunderstanding that somehow manages to save a marriage, all because a farmer's protective instincts and quick trigger finger get in the way of the facts. A genuine feel-good romp that proves sometimes the best solutions come from the messiest misreadings.
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