The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1881-06-07
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i ha0 bought sBFutHS, very large
South Down buck, about as handsome
/. an animal III I ever saw. He would
have weighed, alive, atleast 200 pounds,
and was as pbrtiy IS b lord IT did me
good toiook at bis fleece; IL was magnif.
cent ssgg
ibid not know whenI bought him,
that Brptus had D very sinister reputa-
tion. Tins I afterwards learned He
was dangerous butter, x and had
shortly before killed two bucks, and had
nearly brokeh mans legs. Yet one
would never have thought IL, on seeing.
the beaat; fot Brutus had no horns and
had q most hrniable expression. / led
him home myself he seemed very Do!
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The same week I also bought Caesar"
He was a young CotsWold, valued at
si twenty dollars. He had asuperb cream
white fleece, very long and thick. His
former owner assured me that theTwoof
TN Cesar was ten inches in length, soI
rather depth VI t
Though not yet fully grown, his horns.
were large and finely curved. He was
not 30 big and portly as BEutus; but
liked him better in many respects. Il
Brutus kept chained in one of the
barns; while Caeser dwelt in a pen, in
another barn, but had liberty to como
out into the barnyard, which was sur
rounded by q strong board fence, eight.
or ten feet III height. NJ
knew they would fight if they were
to meet; but thought they were ,se-
curely confined. The barns were distant
from each other hundred feet or more
One morning I had let out my flock.
into the fields, and was leisurely return
I ing, salt dish in hand, to the house, when
!. was startled by an ominous crash of
boards up DIT the barns. I set off in
haste to ascertain the cause, when an. =
other violent crash warned me to, hurry.
reached the yard just in time to see
young Caesar knocked headlong through
the board fence, at the lower end of it.
He lay partly in the gap and q1ivered.
Thought at first that he was stunned
merely. But he was dead. History
had repeated itself there in my sheep
yard; Brutus had slain. Caesar; and, still
war-ike, he stood inside the hole and
dared me to come in. 4 .t.}."k f..
! 1t took both Mr.. Bean (the hired MANI
and myself TO capture him. We found
that he l lad broken his chain, or
wrenched the staple from the post, and
got into the barn-yard by butting a
broad hole through the board fence. ~ . 7
The next day, or the next day but one, 3
he hunted down the useful Mr.. Bean
who had led him out to water-and
bruised hisl leg rather badly. But,
though knocked fiat, Bean had seized
the buck by one Of his hind legs, and
held fast, and in a moment or two had
regained his feet. a. sst r
In that plight the two went over the
yard and had a lively tussel for the Inas!l
terry. At lie myth Bean got hold of the
other hind leg and let go the chain.
Some minutes later he came down to
the house wheeling Brutus before him;
that is, he Had both the rams hind legs
in his hands, and so forced the animal
to walk lab oredly before him like q
wheelbarroW; or, as the boys at school
used to say "walk Spanish. The chain
was dragging after. sh#. 4
Here's your cretter- 'sarn himt' he
exclaimed. "He like ter broke my
laig-,sarn himf Wy! Q mans in danger
of His Mept aiz5' 80 Ftsi3. h Wit lIs..,s; n
Mrs. Bean came out and said the
same; she declared she was in danger of
her life when she went to feed the hens
md hunt eggs -rN / =
a I was obliged to dispose of Brutus.
In place lof. these two fallen heroes, I
next bought "John Gilpin," prompt
straight-li nbed South Down. with d
black face and. smut legs, His name,
like that Of his predecessors, came to me
on him. His former owner told me that
he knew his name aswel as any boy,
and perhaps he did; for he really would
run to you when you said John Glpin--
and shook the salt dish. 4 &aH ktE
As sto elk animal he was ranked high,
and I paid . correspo ndingly high price. !.
I may as well, tell you what became 81
him. For 4 year He was monarch OF my
flock avery proud and arrogant one.
He had GROWTH / valued him highly. 4
Every one who saw him admired him.
But queer fatality hung over my stock
animals. Il
One day in October, the next fall,
after we had turned the sheep into the
fields, MI, Bean came running to the
house. -a w
THERE'S trouble, sir, up, in the upper
feldr he exclaimed There's d strange
cretter come. ~ Dttc EGitl2EytsfItES1 ri y
Trouble, .indeedl On reaching the up
per field there lay John Gilpin with all
four of HIS black legs in the air and hts
neck crooked under him, while over his
PROSTATE body stood another great, bony,
but ill conditioned ram with norns nke
an argaii's. .f <tl5 s>,
Va Without exoeption,I this, was the most
ruffianly looking brute ] ever, saw-a
Creature All bone and horns. with little
Ishmaelfte had killed the wen bred John
Gilpin the very first pass he had made
at him. =,
Wereconnoitred the beast at a respect
full distance. II declared" said Bean.
Ties aIpill. Whar dye s'pose he come
That was an open question. The ami
NAL had what looked to be a towstring
tied round his neck, with the end drag
cling. Presumably, he had been hitched
somewhere, by somebody. l..
ISz We drove the entire flock down to the
barn yard, and at length got the truculent
4 stranger into o pen in the barn, where
meant To keep, him till / could ascertain
!, who owned him, and recover damages d
But we had not got many steps from
the barn before we heard crash, and,
turnings saw the newcomer just walking
out He had knocked the barn-door