Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-07
THE PIG STARTED IT.


of Hawley county, Pa, kept matters lively
for three days last week. First, the twelve
year-old son of farmer Haser was playing
with younger boy by the name Of Chap
man. A neighboring farmers boy came
along, driving a pig that objected TO going
the direction the boy wanted 1t ran toward
the Chapman and Haser boys. Young Chap
man ran and cambered over low well
curb to get out OF the pigs way. Young
Haser climbed OH fence. The pig went up
the road, aud the neighboriug farmers boy
followed after it. Then young Haser ran
to the well curb in time 10 see his playmate
tumble to the bottom of the well, a distance
of twenty feet. The Haser boy shouted for
help, and then cimed over tho curb and let
himself down into the well by the chlnks in
the wall. He reached the other boy, and
held his head above water until farmer
Haser got to the well, let the bucket down,
and hauled them both out uninjured.
The next day farmer Haser and his wife
drove to neighboring village to do some
trading at the store Mrs. Haser weighs
over two hundred pounds. On their way
home their horse took fright and ran
away. Farmer Haser WAS thrown to the
ground. Mrs. Haser was tossed over the
tree. and seiZing hold Of one Of the thllls,
managed to keep that position for over II
mile, although in constant danger Of being
kicked to death by the running horse. Then
the horse was stopped. Mrs. Hascr has
been seriously i'll ever since
The third day farmer Haser hitched
another horse TO q patent cultivator and
went TO work in his corn field. His son,
who went down the we'll 10 rescue his
plavmnt-s, led tho horse between the rows.
In tbs harnyard near by number of COWS
were lying and standing about. Beyond
chem WAS We'll In IN adjoining field
another son Of farmer Hascr was digging
still another we'll. "A lifleen-ycar old daugh-
ter of farmer 1Iaser was chllrning on the
back sloop OF the house, not Il great way
from the barn. In one Of the lurrows the
boy who was leading the horse came to q
large stone He let the bride loose and
stepped around the stone The horse SHE'D
from The furrow. The boy sprang to grasp
the bit and led him back. This frightened
the horse, and it started to run. Farmer
Hascr was unable to stop it by holding back
on the handles Of the cultivator. The horse
cleared two pairs of bars and the Darnyard
gate. and look what was left of the culti-
Vator with him among the cows. The cows
ScampeTeu AWAY. III IleT Ht'Stt oiiC SoW
knocked over the wclI-curb. Another COW,
following her, fell with her hind parts in tho
well, holding TO the edge with her lorelegs.
Farmer Haser and the boy ran on after the
morse The daughter left her churning and
ran 10 the aid Of the COW hanging in the
well She caught it by the horns, with the
vain thought that she could either pull it
out or keep it from falling deeper, and
shouted to her brother, who was digging
the we'll in the adjoining field. This scared
the COW, and she began TO struggle to get
out. In her struggles she loosened her hold
on the edge of the well and fell to the bot
tom The girl let go the horns in time to
remain above and help her brother. The
brother, when he saw the situation, got
help and brought the windass he was using
in digging the other we'll The COW was
thirty-two teet down in the we'll where she
stuck. The water was still eighteen feet
below her, A man went down the we'll, at
tached a rope to the COW, and three men
working at the windlass above drew her to
the surface
Within an hour farmer Haser and his hoy
were plowing in the corn again, the COWS
were once more in the barnyard as though
nothing had happened, the we'll curb was
| re-established, the other son was digging
again at the other we'll in the adjoining
field, and the daughter had taken up her
churning where she had left off.-Ne,U York
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