Smyrna times., 1873-04-30
MI e/IU 10 f o IT, S.
Our Full-Blooded Cow.
BY. REV. T. DE WITT rALMAGE. D. D.

Y. T. TALMAGE D.
The man had not been able to pay his debts
The mortgage on the farm had been fOrecOsed.
Day OF sale had come. The sheriff stood on a
box reading the terms of vendue All ray.
ments to be made in six months. The auction
eer took his place. The old man and his wife,
and the children all cried, as the piano, and
the chairs, aud the pictures, and the carpets,
and the bedSteadS went at half their worth.
| When the piano went it seemed to the old peo |
pie as if the sheriff were selling all the fingers
that had ever played on it, and when the
carpets were struck off | think father and
mother thought of the little feet that had
tramped it, and when the bedstead was sold ii
brought to mind the bright curly heads that
had slept on it long before the dark days had
come, and father had put his name on the back
of note signing his own death warrant. The
next thing to being buried alive is to have the
sheriff sell you out when you have been honest,
aud have tried always to do right. There are
50 many enviOus ones to chucke at your fall,
and come in to buy your carriage, lessing the
Lord that the time has come for you to walk
, and for them to ride
But to us the auction reached its climax Of
t interest when We went to the barn. We were
} spending our summers in the country, and
must have COW. There we're ten or fifteen
) sukies to be sold. There were reds, and pie
/ balds, and duns and browns, and brndles,
7 short horns, long horns crumpled horns, and
no horns. But we marked for our own COW
i that Was said to be tull-blooded whether
Q Alderney, or Durham, or Galloway, or Ayr
O. shire, | will not tell lest some catte-fancier
It feel insulted by what | write, and, if there is
l. any grace that pride myself on, it is prudence,
i and determination always to say smooth
J; things " How much is bid for this magn6-
!, cent, fuI-blOoded cow" cried the auctioneer:
h "Seventy-fve dollars, shouted some one.
,. made it eighty. He made it ninety. Some
II body else quickly made it hundred. After
s the bids had risen to one hundred aud twenty
five dollars, got animated, and resolved that
would have that COW if it took my last cent.
), lone hundred and forty dollars - shouted my
es opponent. The auctiOneer said it was the finest
s cow he had ever sold, and not knowing much
Of about vendues, of course [ believed him. 1t
a. was good deal of money for minister to pay
rs but then | could get the whole matter Of my
es hands by giving "a note. ln utter defiance Of
nee everything | cried out, one hundred and fifty
OF dollars ~ Going at that u said the auction
nd eer Going at that once twice! thre,
We timesl gone Mr.. Talmage has il" 1t wa
mt one OF the proudest moments of our life
N, There she stood, tall, immense in the girth
A' horns branching, graceful as tree-branch
en- tul uddered, silk coated, pensve-eyed.
be We hired two boys to drive her home Will
:" started than the COW showed what turned ou
"a" to he one of her peculiarities, great speed
4 hoof She left the boys, OutTan my horse
her jumped the fence, frightened nearly TO death
group of school-children, and by the time W
got home we all felt as if we had all day bee
nth out on fox chase.
gs9 to We never had any peace with that COW
ap- She knew more tricks than juggler. Sh
acf S could let down any bars, open any gate outru
! doc and ruin ha natinnon Of NV iDiS Sta
We. We had her year, and yet she never got oy'
,ib wanting to go the vendue. Once started out
un the yard she was bound to see the sheriff. W
erai coaxed her with carrots, and apples, and Ca
enc bage, and sweetest stalks, and the richie
i'm beverage OF slops, but without avail.
ssas Sen As mixer, she was a failure. Mike
sir in who lived just back Of our place, would cou
nth. in nights from his Kerry COW, scrag
16s the runt that lived the commons, with his p
col so full he had to carry 1t cautiously lest it sp
AZ over. But after our tull-blooded had been
clover TO her eyes all day, Bridget would
out to the barn-yard, and tug and pull fol
the supply enough to make two or three custarC
e. Of said, Bridget, you dom know how to mil
' Let me tryl" | sat down by the COW, tri
is:; Hss the full force of dynamcs but just at the
lum ment when my success was about to be demo
''sAD strated, sudden thought took her somewh,
iEht, 's1 between the horns, and she started for
Rtend vendue, with one stroke of her back foot
mi mt in setting the small treasure had accumulate
= : de- and leaving me a mere wreck of what Ol
born was
She Pad, among other bad things NOR
appetite. Notwithstanding we gave her
n,.en. richest herbaceous diet, she ate everything
Gated; Gated could put her mouth on. She was fond
That hOrse-blankets and articles of human cothi
!" hSp 1Tp found her day at the cothesline, nes
Terri, chOked to death, for she had swallowed
ais ior leg OF something, and seemed dissatisfied I
ea9tg 1s5odg she could not get down the other The
hereby perfect nuisance that | ever had about
legal legal place was that full-blooded
e pStr vest Having read in our agricultural journal
hereby cows that were slaughtered yielding fourt
ot the hundred pounds neat weight, we concluded
Dr. and sell her to the butcher We set high price
te and her and got it-that is, we took a note fo
iuno' which is the same thing. My bargain with
'ct the butcher was the only successful chapter in
,9ts%s bovine experiences. The only taking off in
nd % pe ps the whole transaction was that the butcher
away, leaving me nothing but a specime
poor chirography, and already had enoug
=, ,ho that among my manuscripts
lrposes; My friends, never depend on high-bre
Y Tbst al Some of the most useless of cattle had
n Of the cestOrs spoken Of in the Commentarie
!. 81 suits M C9sar." That Alderney, whose grandfa
= or what 2s used to Craze on lords park in England,
!; tried; not be worth the grass she eats.
""' 0' Do not depend too much on the high-so
ing name of Durham or Devon. AS
animals. 80 with men. Only one Presi
Hers on ever had President for son. Let every
tivss Is Of make her own name, and every man achlev
J, placed own position. 1t is no great credit to
ne extra snS that he had wise grandfather. Man,
slon be, Ayrshire and Hereford has had the no
horn and the footrot. Both man and an
are valuable in proportion as they are us
snses Of Mikes" COW beat my full booded.
,r other
a. ed.'ff That A LAME WITH Two Mouths. Mr. Lee