The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-06-17

your hands on. Lie across that upper stair, some
of YOU, with your back up, and the rest take sticks
and liry on like Macdulf when give the word
AN ready. said johnson, through crack IN the
door. With his handkerchief over tie eyes of the
submissive COW, Pipkins sci fire to her lnlllmub'e
head dress and belnre he could withdraw his BAN
dage, the horns were enciiced in flames. wild
snoit Of terror came from the animal, but, ut the
same instant, dozen blows descended on her
hack and with leap like a deer she sprang
through the open door. Crash. went an lndeiLa-
bic mass of crockcry, and around The room at
peace perfectly Infatuated, ran the COW, lramping
at every round the ovcrhrOwn tables, and chairs,
and with her garng eyes and her flaming horns,
certainly resembling very srlkng'y my idea oithe
devil Pipklns held the door open by crack ,nnd
we looked iE over his shoulder. In the larlhest
corn.r of his bed room, crouched Mr. Sneeps his
mouth open and his face livid with fright; and oh
serving the, next instant that he had covered his
face with his hands. PipkIns slipped in and en-
yeoped himself IN sheet from Johnson's bed and
by rush upon the COW, drove her straight into the
dormilorv. with hands extended and hair upright,
and Il, Il single bound, the terrified man made for
the door--,umbng over The back flour friend, as
Pipkins had calculated, he pitched headlong down
stairs; hut up in n second, and still dumb with
horror, he continued his fght never stopping, as
we afterwards learned, ill he reached the room of
the President, where he burst in and threw himself
upon the floor.
| Piplins was never abandoned by his angel OF
discretion, Closing the door after the flying blue
skin, he threw blanket over the cows horns, sent
Johnson into the entry to cape and worder with
the res, of his disturbed neighhors, and hid
himself with the GOWN thu vacated dormitoTy of
poor Sneeps, The tutor had been disturbed by
the rafting Of hoofs, bnt he took few minutes 10
dress, and in that time the wondering Sophs had
SUNK again to their beds, and with the unsatiStied
runconary, the last football was senced in the
entry,
have laughed at intervals of years, and in very
grave places, when some chance association,
hid brought back to my memory the picture of
tina, IuctIcss COW, as she appeared to the assem-
hled college on Sunday morning, looking down up
on the grass from the window of the fourth story
oi the north entry. Tom lied her with a short
le,her to the hinge orthe outside window blind and
when the bell rung for prayers, and professors, tu
tors, and students, were all vending their way
soherly to chapel, some chance eye discovered the
prol,uded hand Of The stewards long lost COW A
shout 20 others to come and look soon turned the
tide of matln goers from the path To the chapel and
in FIVE minutes the entire population Of the college
was in body under the window, gazing upwn'd
| The increment was so Ohsireperons that il was
not thought cxpadicn 10 proceed with the morning
pray erS-the only instance of that omission, be-
| lievc, in the history Of the institution.
| How the COW got ihrre-where she was kept
during the week that she was missing and who
were ,he perpetrators, remained a profound secrc,
until after Pp<ns had taken his degree. OF course
no susprion attached to Toms entry, and the
burden Of snrnse fell divided among the innocen,
residents in the entry where the COW was discov
cred
Death ends the mcrrest tale. The steward fed
his COW in her elevated station until Monday when
he attempted to induce her to descend the stairs,
But she hid not enough of the extraordinary
Nothing cold coax, drag or drive her to the stair
CASE and, getting ont Of patience at last with the
obsina"y Of the animal, and the immohelalc laugh
ter oithe Students the angry pnrvcyor sent for IL
hut her, and brought her adventures to trasical
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