Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-06-26

my wife, ''lead the calf to water, or
milk the cowP' With the alacrity of a
man who sees a chance to drive a good
bargain, responded by starting for
the calf shed, and began to. unite the
animal. Then, for the first time, be-
gan to have misgivings. Accustomed
to look for signs of cyclones among the
Clouds surveyed the calf with an eye
to discovering his bad points. He had
very mild eye, and seemed to be well
| built, but there was an undefinable
twist in his tail that looked ominous.
There was party of young people
playing croquet in the yard, and was
imbued with the feverish hope that the
calf would do nothing rash. l had
always borne an excellent reputation
for sobriety and decorum, and intended
to impress the calf with the dignity
that befitted the occasion. Toying
with the knot in the rope awhile, to es-
tablish confidential relations, united
the fastening and stepped quickly into
the open air. Stepping on the softest
spots of earth, to avoid attracting
the attention of the croquet
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shelter of the haystack unobServed
No such false delicacy disturbed the
calf; one glance at the croquet grounds
gave him the key to the situation. He
knew his time had come for going out
on strike. The crook in his tail be-
came more marked, and terrific bawl
escaped him. In vain l tried to look at
ease and appear not to be responsible
for the actions of that calf. / found
myself in the same position as the lab
oring man did when the anarchists APP
peared on the scene-we were tied to-
gether; / was for law and order, but
the calf waived the red flag, his joints
were no longer pliable, but with stiff
fened legs he moved back and forth in
sort of hobby-horse polka, and bel
lowed his own accompaniment. /
wasn't pleased, but l smiled kind of
seasick smile, and carelessly held the
rope in one hand. examined the sur
rounding landscape very intently, and
paid no attention to the calf, which /
thought was the proper thing to do, and
indicated that everything was progress
ing finely.
But the Jersey would not be ignored
Hosting his tail like G flagstaff on the
stern of an ocean steamer, he bolted
the convention. l merely said ''Me
too," and then followed in his wake
Foreseeing an approaching crisis, l
had marked out the path l should
| choose if worst came to worst. But l
found l was not in tow of that kind of
steamer, neither was l the pilot on
that excursion, and the calf seemed to
have shipped his rudder before we left
the harbor. Without looking, be-
came conscious that croquet no longer
possessed attractions for the PLAYERS;
the grand calf reverse waltz eclipsed all
other displays l had lost my temper
and several buttons trying to keep at
the cad of the procession, when sudden
ly the calf stopped short. / went on
the length of the rope, when l stopped
too, my neck cracking like a whlpcord.
The calf had evidently halted to stay,
so began to pull him along pulled
great rolls of skin up around his ears,
while he bowed his spine like cat in a
back fence duet; then he became faceti-
Gus and wagged his head from side to
side, and ran out his tongue at me. The
rope was cracking with the strain when
he beloved for me TO get out of the
way; | wasn't braced in the right direc-
ton, and when he started laid down on
my back to rest. The calf, under the
impression that | wasn't coming, Jump
ed on to me to wake me up, then start
ed for the croquet grounds. His inn
pressions were not correct. The rope
was now firmly wrapped around my
wrist, and went along
The calf didn't pay half as much at
tention to me as / did to him. He
scooped the first two arches at one
shot, while l was pulling up the stake;