The Press., 1883-10-11
THE BOY AND THE COW.

On Monday morning most ludicrous accident happended to boy in Monticel- To. The boy is George Houston, and he is about thirteen years old. He is employed by Mrs. Charles Smith, of that village, and among his other duties is that of milking COW. On Monday he was engaged ill this latter occupation. The COW was stand ing in the barn-yard, and as the flies were numerous she was continually switching her tail, which, by the way, was an unu- sually long and fine one. Every switch of the tail brought the long hair into Georges s face with force enough to hurt him. As the milking went on the tail-switching was kept up with incessant regularity, until George could stand it no longer. At last he seized the tail and tied it around his left leg 50 firmly that the COW could not pull it loose. The flies at once began to take advantage of the situation, and set I tied down to the work of boring into the hide no longer protected by the swinging tail. The COW grew uneasy as the flies be- came more numerous. She bumped up her back, shook her ears, swung her head, | tugged uneasily at her imprisoned tail ,and refused to .'let down. her milk. George thought it was high sport and good joke on the COW, but all of sudden mon- strous fly lighted on the COW, inserted his auger and commenced to bore. He struck nerve that shocked the COW like gal: ! vanic battery. The effect was wonderful She raised one foot in mulefashion and planted it plumply in Georges stomach, knocking him off the stool, and then she started on waltz or s'racquet" around the barn-yard.
 The tail remained tied around Georges leg, and as the COW ran wildly around the yard he was dragged through muck and mire, hay and straw, over sticks and stones, calling for help, and unable either to re- gain his feet CT to unite the troublesome tail that bound him to the frightened an imal. Around and across they went, boy and COW, both scared at the unusual con- dition of affairs, for nearly half hour, when the boys yells attracted the atten- tion of @ passing milk-man. The milk-man saw how matters stood at a glance. He leaped into the enclosure and tried to pull around It was all in vain. The knot would not yield. Then he tried to corner the COW or drive her into stall That al- so failed. Finally the milk-man got a firm hold on the boys shoulders and tug ged backwards, strengthening out the cows tail and lifting the boy from the ground. Enraged at the re-enforcements, the COW headed straight for the fence, gathered her muscles for jump, and vault ed into the air, with man and boy string ing behind her like tail to kite. She clearedssth fence, and her tail came down across the top board and broke off short, allowing the man and boy to drop to the ground. The boy was then stood up and examlned. No bones were broken, but he was daubed and bruised considerably, and was out of breath and scared almost to death. He came out of the affair with new idea of the possibilities of a joke on 8 COW, wiser boy, and the COW came out with an abbreviated caudal appendage, and 8 perfect horror of boys as miIkers, Had the tail not broken off George would have been dragged into the road, and in all probability bruised to death. He will, of course, not soon again tie to his left leg the tail of a stout and nervous COW m fly me.-,Oramge County Farmer.