I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests coat the hills and valleys, seemingly home to as many moose and deer and bear and beaver as people.

Isolated secretion of the udder (identical scarlet glands in growth fermentation) A moose outbreak (a Streptococcus being) A milk-wide zone of agar (a lactose pathogenic to ducks) The left forequarter of the udder (involved and later, when this began to dry off, not involved) The cow counts 17 (woe of a milky ruminant) A talented moose, encapsulated by woe, fails to hydrolyse sodium hippurate (an out-break of isolating bulk milk)