The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-27
A Struggle With a Cow.
Arkansa,o Traueler.

dThuHSuO ITuOeteTs
There is nothing that demands states
manship of high order as much as the
driving of a cow with a young calf to
any particular place. Two Dallas color
ed men undertook a job of this charac-
ter and although they gave the matter
their careful attention, the result was
far from satisfactory to anybody but the
COW, which seemed to enjoy it very
much. Sam and Bill were to get dol
lar to take the cow and calf and put
them in the yard of the owner, Mr..
Thomas Carlyle, who lives at the south
end of Elm street. After trying in vain
to get the cow to understand in which
direction they preferred she should go,
Sam and Bill called cabinet meeting,
at which the following campaign plan
was agreed upon: Sam was to take up
the calf in his arms and go ahead, while
Bill was to hold the cow back by the
rope which was fastened to her horns.
EFF she goes too FAST said Bill, 1'll
Jest hold her back
'And eff she don't follow fast enough,
I'll jest twist de calf's tail, and den she
will come right along said Sam.
Sam took up the calf and went ahead,
while Bill, in order to get real good
hold, tied the rope around his wrist.
The procession proceeded slowly in the
desired direction, and would have reach
tempted Bill to get up joke on Sam,
so he called out:
Sam, jest twist dat calf's tall
Sam did so, and the calf bleated as Il
it was opposed to an encore to the per-
formance.
The old cow began to trot. So did
Sam, holding on to the calf as if he had
stolen it. Then the fun began. Fol-
every once in while the cow would
polish her horns in the ceiling of Sans
pants. Bill could not get his hands out
of the rope, and, as he had short legs,
he had hard work keeping up with the
procession, or rather in not letting go.
He ran so fast that the kinks in his wool
straightened out. Finally he gasped:
Sam, ontwist dat calfs tail
Sans legs moved so rapidly that they
looked like the spokes of buggy, but
he called back:
Look out dar, don't let go dat rope
de cows gainin' on me-
'Drap de caf, Sam, called poor Bill,
whose arm was coming out of its socket.
'Drap de caf, for l can't keep up wild
de COW. Go slow or I'll turn de COW
loose on you,' which, however, wa:
more than he was able to do.
Bill made the next fifty yards on hi:
back, he still most unwillingly retaining
his hold on the rope. Fortunately the
cow overlook Sam and in return for hi:
kindness in picking up the calf she pick
ed him up on her horns and threw him
over into Mr.. Carlyle's yard. Bill, who
was rather tired of chasing the COW,
thought he would climb over and see
what Sam was doing. She appeared tc
understand his wishes in that direction,
so she started on run to help him out
or rather in. She was little late, but
he went about ten feet further into the
field than he would have done withou
her assistance. There was neither o
them so badly hurt as they were wher
old Carlyle came and told them tha
the contract was that they should pu
the COW in the yard. Instead of that
the COW had put them in the yard, 81
the dollar belonged to himself as th'
owner of the COW.
1t is thought lawsuit will grow on
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