The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-26
The amiehta aay Eagle guesdap za1ornme gune rs, 1894

fully have charged her transient rate:
while she was here,
These sheep have presence" about
them which has driven away new sad
die horse of mine, and we have TO tie
the horse radish also. They eat the grass
and then go partially up the trees and
eat the foliage of.
A sheep cannot even succeed itself in
the same room. Mr.. Morris lost % By
dogs at one time That shows that even
the most vile and worthless dog may be
OF use II he viii get up and stir himself.
l sold my sheep yesterday to Bill
Baldwin, the butcher l got $40. 80 out
Of them, and Le had to drive them
away.
thought when got them that they
would como up to the library dool
standing knee deep in the blue grass
and show off to those who came 70 the
villa TO see Us, but they only came ur
70 the house on cold days when they
We're molting, and they would shiveI
and look cold, and their little chins
would culver, and they had never been
taught to use their handkerchiefs, and
! am glad they're gone, for l soon al
most hated them, and they are as much
of poetic fraud as fool pigeon is.
Sometimes | think the best works o.
nature know of are purely artificial.
But farm life probably gives me that
idea
We had on the place here for a good
many years kind hearted cow named
Leydie. She was here before bought
the farm and was beloved by all. She
was the kind of COW represented in our
earlier literature as ''being in the lot y
She raised up quite a family, some
Of whom went west. No one could real.
~ say word about Leydie, but age
finally overlook her, and called Bill
Baldwin, the butcher, aside three years
ago and told him that Leydie had passed
her meridian as milkster, yet that she
was delightful character and the soul
of honor.
'Those things are all right, said he,
Gin general way, but they do not add
10 the value of a steak. Rev Lyman
Abbott is one of the ablest divines III
the world, but with the Upper Congo
diocese a stouter man would be more
popular.
''It is so with Leydie She has never
stepped aside from the narrow pathway
and yet 1 doubt her worth as an article
of food. Still he took her home with
him, aiming to feed her up little and
then take her life.
Every day when he came with his
steak and chops one of US would ask,
with tears which we could i'll conceal,
''Is this some of Leydie?''
''No," he would say in low voice.
"This is some of Eli, that sterling old
stag of Mr. Ledbetter's. You remember
him doubtless. Every one knew Eli most
as well as what they did Ley6ie. -
Time passed; months grew to years
/ thought several times that Mr.. Bald
win had lied to US and slid Leydie off
on us without saying anything, and SO
we would not be panied so much.
Once tasted neat malleable steak
that reminded me of Leydie. 1t was only
last week. Three years had passed away
since we sold Leydie, and l said to Bald
win this morning:
''You did kindly act to say nothing
to US when you fed us with Leydie's per-
son. 1t was a delicate, nice, thoughtful
thing for you to think of, but 1 caught
you now" l said. 81 selected her yes
terday. There was something about Ley
die that one could never forget We
had some of her yesterday. William,
did we not?"
NO." he said "You are wrong.
You know a good deal, but now and
then you do not know so much as you
think you do.
Il have always told you the truth
about Leydie. Every time you have asked
me about her have told you the truth.
"When l bought Leydie of you, saw
that she would close ont my business
for me in about four days if 1 killed
her, with that long WASTED, sort Of
bastile countenance of bers. People
would White Cap me. Therefore 1 sent
her over on Roam mountain to Craze,