| |
| | Valley News Web Story Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | At C.W. Gray & Sons in East Thetford yesterday, auctioneer Herb Gray, gesturing, and his wife, Beckie Gray, sitting next to him with grandson Brandon Gray, 6, sell the cattle of Bill and Brenda Goss of Peacham, Vt. Gatetender Burton Covey of Bradford, Vt., left, stands ready to herd the cows, which were thin. |
 | | And Gray called most people, who made their bids known with the slightest of head nods, by their first name. |
 | | Gray's sons led each cow into a small ring near the bleachers, the floor covered in woodchips, and he would start the bidding. |
| www.vnews.com /04152003/1045735.htm (898 words) |
|