The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-10-22
sHs HAD PURE orr.
The Man who Turned His Oxen Into Hes
Field Got the Worst of IL.

/ The Man Who Turned HIS oxen Into Hes
Field Got the Worst OF II.
Talking about pure grit . said q
woman who was lunching at the Col
onial club in New York. Il knew q
woman once who was full OF II
Tell US about hoE exclaimed the
other two women Of the luncheon
party. '.Who was shep'
why she was my mother" an
swered tho first speaker She was
the littlest little woman ! ever saw.
but there was courage and fight
enough In her 70 stock q regiment
don't mean she was nagging crea-
ture making trouble for every body.
She was the sweetest kindest woman
In the world. 1t was only when
somebody tried to impose on her or
on some OF US girls that she came out
ms q fighter Let me tell you story
about her. and you'll see what !
mean.
Well we were living In Iowa
when my father a minister by the
way. died aud left mother to manage
farm and 10 care for big family OF
girls. The grain was high in tho
field. and 1t had to be cut at once.
Mother entered into negotiations with
neighbour and was just about to
close trade with him when she dis
covered that he was trying to over
reach--insisting on terms that were
'cxorbitant and absurd
,..Mother told him that sho'd get
somebody else to cut the grain. and
that mado him so angry that he was
quite rude in his speech. But mother
shut the door in his face and left him
to have his sputter out all by himself.
THAT night about clock. moth
err was awakened by noise out in
the yard. She slipped out OF bed and
peered through the window. There
was that same farmer engaged in taxi
ing down the bars OF the fence that
surrounded the field OF grain that
mother wouldn't let him cut The
bars down. tho man went out into the
road for minute and the next
minute he came back driving yoke
OF oxen. which he turned loose into
the field.
What did your mother say to tie
maup asked one OF the listeners
She didn't say anything"
Didn't she tell kim to take tho
cattle right out OF the field9'
mo indeed; that was not her way
of doing tn nga What she did first
was to dress herself Then she stole
quietly down stairs and out into the
yard Then she went to the barn and
got an oxgoad Then she bounded
to the grain field and drove the oxen
out OF it."
'.And then she went back to bed. I
suppose" said one Of the women.
Or did she watch the rest OF the
night
Neither. She drove those oxen a
mile and half down the road till
she came to great field OF corn
which belonged to that awful man.
Then she took down the bars and
wished the oxen good morning.
On the way back she stopped
long enough to open the gate OF u
pasture In which was quite herd of
steers and TO set some OF them NOV
ing toward the corntield and they
found that field. ! can assure you.
Next morning mother told us
what she had done. and we just
Rugged her and kissed her till she
cried"
And what came OF it?"
oh yes-thats the best part OF
the story. The neighbors somehow
found out what had happened. and
they were SO pleased over it that they
came and cut mothers grain for
nothing"
But just think OF that ninety-fve-
pound woman driving yoke OF oxen
n mile and half in the middle OF
the night on such an errand! l
always feel proud OF my little mother
when recall this episode in her
life"