Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-09-11
Adventure of an Editor.

recently attended a trial of Mowers and
Keepers, and while eramiaiay an orchard
adj iuing the meadow in which the trial
took place, experienced trial Of quite an
other description. His description of the
a.fur is too god to be lost:
THAT bull was one of 'em. He was
monarch Of all be could cat, chase, or gore.
Being deeply interested in the apple crop,
we wandered out Of the field, in which the
moving was going on, into friend Shot
wells orchard Fat aud handsome blood
cd cows were lying about, chewing their
culs, and utterly indifferent to what was
going on. We wandered on from tree to
tree in the large orchard, and while criti-
cally examining some very fine looking
fruit, was suddenly and rather unpleasant
ly startled from our train of thought by
the believing of Mr.. Taurus, whose maj
esty had been reclining, and Of whose au-
gust presence We were unaware. He ele-
waited his tail, and made the earth fly with
awful paws, aud thus manifested his hos
tility aud gave tone, if not color, to his
idea, that we were an iuterloPcr, made a
plunge towards US. A moments view of
our antagonist, was just about enough.
lie had a tremendous front. His eyes
1lshed fire. He roared like Bull Of
Bashan.' We did not at all fancy the
style of his horns. They were straight as
needles, and abou, as sharp. lie exhibit
ed an unmistakeable desire to employ
them upon US.
"Knowing that it was expected of US to
report the test trial going on in another
field, We remembered the prior and press
ing interests of our friends, and set up
smart run. So did Mr.. Bull! We scam
pered-Ae scampercd. He made better
time than we could BOTTOM out lie
gained on US rapidly. We could almost
feel bis hot breath on the back Of our
neck 1t was neck or nothing! Rail
fence twenty rods off! Tight race. No
bets. Bull in high spirits! Gave up for
o 'gonerv No such thing. Friendly
apple tree with low branches! Clu;ched
two Of them and lifted our precious body
into the tree! Taurus arrived just as we
cleared the ground! Paved and roared
horribly-Taurus did We attempted to
reason with him. No sort of use. He
was obstinate, and hard of heart. Evil
IDENTIFY a great scamp. We eyed him.
lie eyed us. Good sight for both of US.
Being in the newspaper line, we are in fa-
vor of the earliest publication ofimpcr,ant
news, but we confess that the BnHtetm
contemplated on this occasion shocked our
sense of propriety. Aud the fact that We
were trecd,' illustrated our autipa,by to
practicipg the popular fca: Of taking the
bull BY the horns In this case it would
assuredly have been 'horn too much So
Nr Editor, he,
DID climb the apple ,res
The bull TO see
"Our enemy paved around the tree
after the manner Of 'Boanerges, the SOL
of thunder glared at us, and finally walk
ed off the distance of three trees. Think
ing all was right, we slid down hernically
aud put for the crazy old fence. The dis
lance from tree to bull, and from bull t.
fence, was just about an 'even thing.
Our assailant saw the movement, ant
ouce more the chase was hot one. Blu
this tine We distanccd the horned 'critter
and scaling the fence, landed in field 0
rye at the same moment that our pursuer'
horns struck the top rails of the fence. w
read the scoundrel a lecture that We hop
he will remember to bis last moments
We made all due allowances in his cas-
for the excitement caused by the hubbu
of the moving and reaping affair, but
nevertheless, concluded that he was grea
scamp"
While the exercises of Amherst Colleg