The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-07

ana my wife put out all the lights in
Vne mouse little before IL. As soon
as the COW saw that the lights were out
sne marched to the bars, showed back the
Two upper bars with her horns jumped into
tine road, turned around and put the bars
up, and then started down the valley on a
trot. followed her, and when she had
gone a little over a mile she looked back
and saw me and Immediately went to graz
ing by the roadside, with her face toward
me. hid behind tree, and pretty soon the
COW kicked up her heels and cantered down
the road toward the cabbage mans place. l
followed her for 4 miles, keeping in the
lots the most of the way, and when old
Whlteface got opposite to the cabbage
patch she lifted rail on the fence and
leaped over. / was convinced that the cab
bage raiser was right, and l woke him up,
agreed to settle with him in few DAYS
and got him to drive the COW to the road.
he gave her big stare, and she started for
home with her head and tail up. ran
after her, but she soon settled down to a
walk, and when got in sight Of the yard
soc was putting up the bars on the inside.
She was the most innocent-looking COW that
l ever saw, and her cabbage stealing cost
me Sl3. L shut her in che stable nights
after that
"Old Whiteface was the cunningest and
most knowing COW l ever owned. While
OHO wy was dllNluR u6T TO the pasture one
morning big black dog belonging to one
OF the villagers bit her on the flank till it
oled. She never forgot the hurt, for it left
scar on her hide, and she made it her
business to go for the dog whichever she
saw him, but the dog always got out Of her
way too soon for her to hook him. One
evening. while | was milking the COW, the
owner OF the dog came to my place to pay
me some money. His dog always followed
him, and noticing that he wasn't with him
then, asked the man, as | sat milking
where the dog was. 'Tige broke his leg
yesterday, and he's lying in the front yard
nursing it. the man said. When | had
finished milking left the COW in the yard,
and the man started for the house with
me. We had hardly reached the door when
heard the boards clatter in the yard, and !,
looking that way, saw old Whiteface leap
over the bars and go cantering up the viii
lage street. | chased her and called
her. but she paid no attention to me,
and she ran like a deer till size got
opposite the house of the dogs owner.
when she sprang over the picket fence at a
bound, plunged at the dog and gored him
SO before l could get there that be died
that night. When the cow saw that she
had broken her enemy all up she jumped
over the fence. trotted to her yard and put
up the bars"
That reminds me-" said another man,
''of a milk-white COW ] owned down in Car
bon county. She could scale any fence III
the neigh borhood, and one afternoon she
broke into my nearest neighbours rye field
when the grain was just heading out. The
owners brindled bulldog surprised her
there, caught her by the nose and hung on
SO long that the COW had blood all over her
face and breast when she came home.
She had a sore nose for two weeks,
and she dida't break into the rye
field again. My neighbor had a wood lot
on the other side Of my farm. and he had TO
pass my house to get to it. About the
| time that the COWS nose got well my neigh
Dor began working in the wood lot, and
| every noon his wife would pack warm
dinner in a basket and let the bulldog
carry it to him. | was summer
following piece and just as was about
to unhitch the team from the pillow one
noon, l saw the white COW thro " up her
tail in the adjoining field and run down the
hillside toward the road as tight as she
could put. The other COWS stared at her,
but didn't stir. The cow jumped over the
stone fence at the roadside, and | then
noticed that my neighbors bulldog was com.
ing up the road with the bale Of the dinner
basket in his teeth. The COW headed him off
and the dog chung to the basket and lodged
past her. She ran in front of him. and
when he tried to get past her for the second
time she drove him against the stone wall
thrust one of her horns through his body,
shook him around spell, and then tossed
him over the fence. The dog didn't live
long, and the COW went to grazing as though
she had accomplished what she had set out
tor ,.-
when lived in wyoming county," an,
other man said. my father had a young
cub bear one spring that one of our COWS
took great liking to. Her jet black cali
had been killed, and the loss Of it made her
so lonesome that she coaxed up the cub
while he was scampering around in the lot
licked him all over, and tried to make her
self believe that it was better to be q
mother to young bear than to nothing
The cub soon took kindly to the motherly
COW, probably having made up his mind
that it was more convenient to have a COW
for a mother than to have no mother at all
and in a day or so he began to help himself
to milk from her udder, greatly TO the cow:
satisfaction. He would sit upon his hind
quarters while be was drawing down the
milk, and the COW would look around at the
black little fellow, and moo contentedly un-
til he got through. Then she would lick
| him, aud when the cub skipped away the
COW would low and run after him. This
went on for a week, and then father sepa-
rated them aud shut the cub in a pen.
The COW mourned for the bear almost
a month, and few weeks afterward
father let the cub loose. He ran to the pas
ture, picked out the COW from the rest OF
the herd. and went to sucking her. He BIZ
one of her teats nearly off, and the COW
drove one of her horns so far up his nostri
that the moor little fellow bled to death.