Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-18
BRlNpLE COWS ARE scHEMERs
Naturalist Griswold Tells story to Inus-
 frate This Contention.

Naturalist Griswold Tells a story to Illus
 trate This Contention.
 The Farchild House circle held ses7 sion the other evening, and Farmer Adsit Bailey gave an instructive talk sn cows.
 aCows are all right, said Paeky Gris- wold, naturalist, providing they're nat brindle cows. Brindle cows are 1 schemers and they will conspire. ! make the charge on the authority of man my uncle knew over in the town of Wayne, and any man my uncle knew is authority good enough to make affi- davit on That man had q brindie COW, and she sohemed and she conspired And it was funny, too, the way she | scbemed and conspired. She was treat ed just as well as any of his other cows, l but still she went and done it. In the days that my uncle knew this man, the best pasture for cows was in the woods, and his cows had the run of tolerable wide patch of timber. The pasture was so good that the cows hated to leave it. and so the man had to go out and look em mp when milk ing time came. By and by he noticed that while he didn't have any trouble to find his other cows he had to hunt the woods over to round up the brindle cow and she didn't have any milk to give down when he did get hold of her. So he said 10 my uncle:
 Some ones mill1in that brindle COW in the pastur'. What we goin to dc about it?'
 Bell her, said my uncle. Put bell on her. Then you'll know how to locate her. and all you've got to do is to go early and find her and drive her in and milk her yourself.
 So the man strapped a bell on her that they could hear for q mile The plan worked just as my uncle had said 1t would. But any one with half an eye and no knowledge at all of cows could see that the brndIe COW was all l broke up over it, and came home with hs much disappointment as milk. And it WAS then she took to seheming One afternoon the man went out early to get the brindte COW. lie hadn't gone far before he noticed that he didn't hear that tar-reaching COW bell He tramped every which way through the woods. He found all the other cows that weren't brindles but the brindle he couldn't fud lie could understand how a COW coufd hide away from him, but how could d COW bell that you could hear for q mile hide it's voice, es- peeially in fly time, when to keep the flies off it took all the work a COW could put into her taii and her legs and her head and keep 'em all working at once, enough to ring church bell?
 By and by the man came to an open ing in the woods, and he caught glimpse of tue COW. There she stood, switching her tail and throwing her head back, first along one side and then along the other, chasing away flies. But otherwise she stood as still as a statue, and there was a look on her face that said as plain as day that she was just tiekled to death with her self. The man my uncle knew, was downright scared. because there was the bell on the brind1e COW $ neck, and she a swinging it here and there in way that ought to set it ringing like s fire alarm. and vet it never made any more noise than if she'd been swinging a piece Of tow rope. It looked ding spoolSy.
 .sBut while the mans eyes were bulg- ing at this spoolly performance they gradually took in something that made them bulge more yet. 1 big black snake was milking the brindle COW at the rate of half pint a gutp. The man felt all cut mp to discover that he had raised such an ungratefu1 COW as that. But he didn't have any idea yet how really interruptions the brindIe COW was. As the man was gazing on the blacksnalse milking the COW. the snake quit its milking and went forward and 6Hmbed one of the cows 3orelegs, slid ext along her neck, and twisted itself down into the bell Then the man saw why the bell didn ring.
 "Coiled the whole length of the clap per was another blacksnal1e. When the iron tongue swung against the sides of the bell the snake was between them, and it didn't make any more noise than if it had struck velvet cushion. When the other snake climbed on the bell his companion dropped out of it. and the other one took its place ground the clapper to muflle it while his companion went back to get his share of the cows milk
 Such dupfcity as that was more than the man could put up with and he drove the COW home and beefed her If brindle cows wont scheme and conspire, what kind of put-upjob de you call that, then22 said Naturalist Griswold
 "Then smart snakes done it. said Farmer Bailey,
 Smart snakes nethinA9 exclaimed Naturalist GriswoId Them snakes might'a been smarter,n solomon, but they couldn't q done thatif the brindle COW and the bell hadn't been there, could theY2'
 The circle shook its head and ad- journed. N Y Sun.