but still he couldn't leave the churn, for there was his little babe crawling about on the floor, and "if i leave it," he thought, "the child is safe to upset it." so he took the churn on his back, and went out with it; but then he thought he'd better first water the cow before he turned her out on the thatch; so he took up a bucket to draw water out of the well; but, as he stooped down at the well's brink, all the cream ran out of the churn over his shoulders, and so down into the well.