The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-02

is hard to describe how two worn and
frozen men, after weeks of uninterrupted
storm and frost. blinded by the dazzling
snow and ice, hailed with vet eyes and
croupy welcome the green grass and the
spring - they burst upon Us in mo-
ment
Close your eyes at Truckee, dear reader,
and tell the porter to call you 1t Sacra-
mento. Go to sleep where the snow -
twenty-six feet deep and wake up in the
fresh meadows. where the odor Of newly
piowed fields can greet your peeled and
frozen nose; then You will know that even
in this world there is sometimes tor each
heartache a compensating Joy.
Sam Davis is still farming at Carson and
running the Appeal
He keeps his subscription list written on
the wall of his Office. and sometimes when
the plastering falls down as many as seven
or eight subscriptions expire.
and the old one became a boarding house.
The poor invalid who used the old Office
as a bedroom says he is still annoyed
by Sam, who comes there at all hours of
the night to look over the old subscription
list.
1T is still more awkward" says the in
valid, because my couch is in the way,
and often wake up in the night to find
Sam standing on the bed, and with one
hand on my chest to steady himself by he
is changing the address of subscriber"
Mr.. Davis has for many years given his
attention to the cultivation of fine cattle.
mostly Holsteins. There is little about
the rise and fall OF the Holstein that he
does not know. Recently, however, he
has been. he says, cruelty wronged by a
man who has been his friend. Sam has
done much for him, but in February last
he sold Sam COW that had no front teeth
In the upper jaw.
He said good deal about it and tried to
recover from the man, but could not. San
and price lists for artificial teeth that
would tit the COW, but he would not laugh
and refused to be comforteC.
By and by Joseph T. Goodman offered to
bet with Sam 500 against all the Dutch
lunches required by Joe during his natural
lifetime that no COW had front teeth on the
upper jaw, and the two men went out
around Oakland trying to find COW so
they could ascertain. 1t was a pleasing
picture, those two middle-aged married
men going about Oakland inQuiring at the
jewelry stores and everywhere if they kept
. COW.
Once they found one on her way to her
work. She met them pleasantly, as all
CalifOrnians meet a stranger, and passed
on. thinking that was the end of it. but
Sam said now was the time and started
Oft after her, for he knew as soon rs he
met her that it was COW. which shows
that he is not only possessed of great lit
erary resources, but is full Of general in
formation.
Sam had heavy gray overcoat on at
the time, but he pressed on. The cow
broke into run. which threw her milky
way first on one side and then the udder
as she ran. She was a low set COW, with
great tripe facilities, and could not run
with much grace, but after We had
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lief to look at the COW.
Finally in the foothills man met them
and caught the COW for them. She was
flushed and angry, and when Sam thrust
his fOrefiQGef into her mouth she did not
attempt y conceal her disgust.
sickly pallOr passed over the face of
Mr.. Davis as he touched the empty gums.
Could it be that. after he had introduced
the Holstein strain of cattle into Nevada
and California, he was still ignorant of the
COW and her home life? Alas, yes; he did
not know the real COW. He only knew the
Delsarte cow-the COW that one sees in the
papers.
Worse than all this. seeing his advan-
tage, Mr.. Goodman began to add other in
formation regarding the COW, and. so to
say. while he had Davis down fairly showed
him under with facts which related to the
COW and which Mr.. Davis was in no con-
dition to deny.
Mr.. Davis now believes that certain
kinds of cows hibernate. and that if they
come out and see their shadow ON Calamus
day they 60 back and leave a call for Eas-
ter at 8 a. m.
Also that the sea COW can be taught to
come up nights, and that there is big
chance for some one to get hold of the Sar-
gasso sea under the desert land act and
stock it with these beautiful and docile
creatures.
In the meantime Mr.. Goodman eats q
light breakfast, relying on a late lunch,
which Mr.. Davis pays for.
In another letter will speak more fully
of the state of California and its advan-
tages over Maine as q winter climate.
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