Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
LEADING ACALF.
How an Old Mans Nerve Wen Vie
tory as Was n ytct0ryA Time of
Excitement Near an Old Battle
Field.

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tory as Was n yictoryA Time of
Excitement Near an Old Battle
Field.
An old gentleman frern Jackson
township, who had permitted the
spring swindler to talk gently to him
four misutes, came into the city yes
terday with calf in order to raise
funds for the relief Of a $24 order
which he thought was only an agree
ment to kindly permit himself to use a
trial-trip new tangled 50-cent hay-fork.
The calf was brought to the city tied
in spring wagon. The old gentleman
finally split the so cent difference and
made sale 10 a man who had a row
with his milkman about the chemical
parts of mis- milk, and who resolved to
begin in tactical infancy and build a
home dairy of his own. The calf was
taken from the wagon near the black
gate, with the rope which had held it
still about its neck. The gate was on
ened, and here was where the trouble
began. The old gentleman gave tug
at the rope indicating the direction
which he desired the animal to 90.
The pull was strong and slightly sue.
cesslul, but when the specimen of
bovine contrariness braced up the re-
coil was terrific. Tae calf pulled in
the other direction like a hackman
who is about to lose tae passenger. 1t
upset the old man and narrowed the
streets with him half a square. But the
old man had nerve and b ED to the
rope, when g pet dog came roaring
out of a front yard and scared the calf
in the other dire ction. In its retreat
from the dog i. walked over the farmer
and plowed q eowpath down his spinal
column. Yell? II sounded like another
ward had just been reported with
six-hundred majority. The dog
got in mis- work by making pass
at the Calls tail, and the calf
knocked him out in the first round by
kick which sent him down an alley
and upset an ash barrel. The bowling
of the dog, seconded by long bawl
from the calf, drowned the old-fashion.
ed 40 swearing of the farmer. The
dust and racket soon drew crowd.
The little gentleman emerged from the
dust a little dilapidated but still in the
ring. Most men would have turned the
animal loose and give policeman So
to shoot the calf and the dog, but the
farmer had sand-sand in his ears, in
his hair, in his eyes and mouth. There
were over two dozen men, women, and
boys and seven dogs soon on the spot.
The meeting volunteered pointers to
to the farmer as to the best way to get
the calf through the gate. The several
ideas, to turn the hose on it, to twist it's
tail, to stick ii with pitchfork, to turn
it loose and drive it IN, to take it by the
ears and back j. in, and many others,
were disposed of, when TIE farmer said
that he'd be dod-ding d if he wasn't
man enough to drag it in, and again
heavrd to- Then the calf swund around
on him like the sweep of cane.mill,
and on the way swept down two boys
and q fat woman and stepped on the
corns of q man who came out of the
wood-shed carrying saw. The boys
regained their territory and pelted the
beast with stones, the fat woman bang
ed it with broom, and the man threw
the saw at it, missing it of course, and
hit little girl on the bare foot. The
calf changed ON and ran against a
ph@,on in which was a long-nosed wom-
an who yelled "Policel' and lcaped
from the buggy and sat on the front
steps of house while n man came
across the street and caught the horse.
The farmer finally used strategy with
force, and began pulling at the calf in
the wrong direction until it backed
near the gate, when eight men tore
board from a neighbors fence and pried
the calf through in the back yard. The
calf was cornered long enough to loosen
the rope, and the crowd dispersed after
a dog-fght, each man telling the other
the best way to lead calf.-Lafayette
lind Journal.