Litchfield enquirer., 1846-03-12

By this time the sleepers were OnltheiF
L.. and all on the qHf vire Cor Toms
rev project. Producing two large news
PEI ers. be stepped them thoroughly ~
oil. and twisted them round the hoEus OF
tie COW, binding them tightly with twine
nes the head, and opening them fal.'
shape at the points. III the week that
tEe kindly animal had been his guest,
sic had fed daily from his hand. and she
nov submitted most tractabIy To his de.
cor;Aion. Having arranged her head
DIRE IS so that she looked like the horned
niclures of Moses, he l0osed her halter,
and taking the last bunch of turnips IN
his hand led her into the entry. The
opposite room was open, and with, his
candle and provender he crossed to the
,dormitory, the COW following, and crept
Though the secret hole in the WALL
Shouts OF laughter rang through the Col.
lese as his design began to flash ON our
cL.nprehensions. The COW stopped at
Tic obstruction, but on The other side OF
the hole, there was barely sufficient 10
lei her body through, stood Tom, wilh
tulnips temptingly displayed, and sh nc
drew breath through her nostF'ls inqul'
ringly, and made slight demonstration
toward jump. Tom retfeated slowly
till he stood in the door way OF me !lttIe
room, and taking a single step half out
of sight he once more shook the turnips
ard gave coaxing 'sough sOugh !and
the next moment the COW was fast. with
her head and fore. leg in the north entry,
ard the remainder in the south. - = /.
I.Ap.:s.s her o1r! cried Pipkins just au-
dibly through the wall. ..i.In.q up7
Crowd her back! cried all who were
b.hind. "-...,.I
Ran! rap. at that instant came the
t,,or's knock ut the door behind US, and
in the extremity of our desperation, we
kicked, showed and frightcnd the poor
animal till he drew her legs after her and
left the avenue open for our own escape.
A clock was instantly hung over the
hole, and the occupant OF the room re-
manned behind to answer the tutor'sques.
tious. ...g. .. q. p 4. ~
The COW was now in the room of the
North entry, and us the hole 10 the wall
was entirely unknown to the tutors aud
other students, we thought IL better Sc
uuci could hardly be contrived than to
leave the cow in the fourth story, TO ex-
had not bounded his ambition at this
He carefully restored the ornate spread
of the cows couture, and having discov-
cred by tiptoe reconnoitre that Mr..
Sneeps was asleep. so softly as the COW
could be nude TO follow, he led her H.
long the entry to tina, gentleman's door.
Now, Johnson said Pipkins, 90 in
and 20 to bed, and when the door opens,
ery FIRE and the devil and smash all
the crockery you can lay hands on. Lie
across the upper stair some Of you. with
YOUR back up, and the rest take sticks
and lay on like Macdutf when | give the
Word' -t
'All ready said Johnson, through q
crack in the door. With his handker-
chief over the eyes Of the submissive COW,
Pipkins set fire to her inf1amable head
dress, and before he could withdrew his
bandage, the horns were encircled in
flames. A wild snort Of terror came
from the animal, but at the sane instant,
II dozen blows descended on her back !,
and with a leap like deer, she spfang
through the open door. Crash wenran
indcfinable mass IF crockery, and a.
round the room at pace perfectly in-
iurluted, ran the COW, tramplIng NJ every
round the ovcrthrown tables, md chairs
and with her glazing eyes and her flaming
horns, certainly resembling very strt.
kingly my idea of the devil. Pipkins
held the door open only by crack, and
we looked in over his shoulder. In the
farthest corner of his bed room, crouched
Mr.. Sleeps, his mouth open and his face
livid with fright; and observing the next
instant that he covered his face with his
hands, Pipkins slipped in and cnveloped
himself in sheet from Johnson's bed
and by a rush upon the COW drove her
straight into The dormitory. With hands
extended and hair upright, and Mt a sim
gle bound, the terrified man made for the
door-tumbling over the back of our
friend, as Pipkins had calculated, he
pitched hcadlong down the stairs, but in
a second, and still dumb with horror, he
continued his fight; never stopping, us
we afterwards learned, till he reached the
room of the President, where he burst in
and threw himself upon the floor. " ,'.'
Pipkins was never abandoned by his
angel Of discretion. Closing the door af.
ter the flying blue skin, he threw blan-
ket over the cows horns, sent Johnson
into the entry to cape and wonder with
the rest of his disturbed neighbors, and
hid himself with the COW in the vacated
dormitory of poor Sneeps. The tutor
md been disturbed by the rafting Of
hooEs. but he took n few minutes to
dress AND in that time the wondering
Sophs had sluGk away to their beds and
with the unsati sfie.. fuEciiorary, the.last
football was silcnced liz the entry
Ihave laughed a, intervals Of yeRrs,
and in very grave places, when some
chance association had brought Jack to
my memory the picture Of that luck. .ess
COW, as she appeared 10 the assembled
college on Sunday morning, looking
down upon the grass from the window Of
the fourth story of the north entry.
Tom tied her with short tether 10 the
hinge of the outside window blind, and
when the bell rung for prayers, the pro.
lessons, tutors aud students, were all
wedding their way seberly 10, chapel.
some chance eye discovered the protru.
ded heed Of the stewards long lost cow.
A shout to others to come and look soon
..--.a A. Aida IF loiin UOorS frOm the