Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-18
TALE OF cow.
Not FOdnd in Books Yet in a
Family BEDROOM.

filed up with residences and running
over with children and aesthetic yards,
had a sensation the other day-a COW
sensation. The heads of families are
buying up all the n~oiseless guns in the
market, and one at least has sent on
for a Calling gun, or a cattling gun,
be is not certain which. After that
a good COW lawyer will be retained on
a fat fee, and then the slaughter will
begin. For afew days and nights the
roar Of artillery will be heard, and the
rattle, of promiscuous small arms.
Then the whisk Of the butchers knife
will finish the work of lead and iron,
and there will be business for an am
bulance corps between the street and
the neighboring meat stores. The
best beef will sell for two cents a
pound. The soil is very rich and
prolific in hat exclusive neighborhood
and the yards and garden plats are
cultivated to the highest degree.
Everything produced is raised to per.
lection, from a peach tree switch to a
ten year old boy. The street is a new
one and there is no telling what it will
yet bring forth. 1t brings up COWS
better than anything else. They
come from all parts of the city
and from away out in the country
to MUNICH the sweet grass on the mar
gins of the sidewalks and to trample
the are tropical plants that grow in
the yards, and the rank blue grass
that has to be moved every week to
keep the children from getting lost in
it. They come by day and at night,
siugly and in pairs, in platoons and
in herds. Three or four years ago,
when the COWS discovered the neigh.
borhood and began to be attached TO
its cool shades, dense little meadows
and horticultural lovers retreats, they
were a lean kline as if all the way from
Egypt; but all the regular corners are
fat and sleek now. The dainty escu
Tents, the floral prizes and various
choice nippings in and outside Of the
gates, which they know how to unlock
or jump, agree with them like the
broad clover fields of East Tennessee.
The good people in and around the
city having COW at large and noticing
a marked increase in the quality and
quantity of their milk and butter will
now understand the reason. This is
the first time it has been made public.
The people on the street, feeling an
interest in the improvement of stock,
submitted to all this very we'll for a
long time. Occasionally a small boy
with a tin whistle would be sent on a
velocipede to drive out a cow when
she began to look full and tired, and
if the owners name had only been on
her horn she would have been given a
guard of safety all the way home.
And so matters rolled along until one
day last week, the people fondly but
vainly hoping that the owners of the
sleek, blooded kline would go into the
dairy business and allow them to be-
come customers. Revolutions happen
when least expected, and are some
times touched off by small events.
Judge Flippin, one of the pioneers Of
the street, who went out there eight or
ten years ago when land was still
cheap in the primitive forest, has an
exceptionally large and green yard,
with a COW proof fence and gate. 1t
has long been the envy and admira.
ton Of all the cattle in the Seventh
ward and the Fourteenth civil district
Last Friday morning Mrs. f. was
away temporarily, a girl was cleaning
up things in the kitchen and the new
hired boy walked out at the back gate,
leaving it open of course. A moment
later a stately COW, with a haggard
c~ountenance, walked in, ambled down
the sidewalk, and seeing there was no
other chance to get to the front yard
started through the house. The girl,
hearing the footsteps of company, ran
out in time to see her cowship enter
Mrs. F.'s bedroom, and found her
looking out Oomplacently through
the window, which happened to be
down, as if ready to jump through
onto the grass. Il took the girl some
time to attract the cows attention, and
when the girl ventured to drive her to.
wardthe back doorthe beast gottangled
up between the wardrobe and the
wall, all this in a handsomely fur
nished room with a fine Brussels car.
pet on the floor. Finally the COW
compromised by running into the
kitchen, smashing a few things and
then going out at the back gate. This
is a true tale, or it would never get
into these columns. 1t is a small
matter, but it has resulted in grim
visaged war. Mrs. 0'Leary's
COW that kicked over the
bucket and caused the Chi.
cago FIRE was alone held responsible,
but this cows indiscresion has brought
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