Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-26

daFlt oa. IHaa man aad 511ndte COW, and she schened and she conspired. And it was tannE g8o, the way she seaemcd and eonspjfed, she was treat ed just as well as of his sother cows, 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 a tolerable wide patch of timber The pasture was so good that the cows hated t0 leave it, and so the man had to go ont 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 brindIe COW. and she didn't have any milk to give down when he did get hold of her. So he said to my uncle;
 Some ones mifisin that brindIe COW in the pastur What we gofn' to do about it?'
 ss Bell her. said ny uncle Put bell on her. Then you'll know how to locate her, and all you've got to do is to gg carly and find her and drive her in and milk her yourself
 So the man strapped q bell on her that they could hear for mile The plan worked just as my uncle had said it would. But any one with half an eye and no knowledge at all Of cows could see that the brindle COW was all broke mp over it. and came home with 3s much disappointment as milk And ,usl.s afternoon the man went out early to get the brindle COW. He hadn't gone far before he noticed that he didn't hear that far=reaching COW beH. He tramped every which way through the woods He found all the other cows that weren't brindles. but tue brindle he eouldn't find lie could understand how COW could hide away from him, but how could a COW bell that yeu could hear for mile hide its voice, es- peeially in fly time. when to keep the flies off if took all the work COW could put into her tail and her legs and her head and keep em all working at once. enough 10 ring church beIl2
 By and by the man came to an open ing in the woods, and he caught glimpse of the 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 look on her face that said as plain as day that sine was just ticl1led 10 death with her self. The man, my uncle knew, was downright scared because there was the bell on the brindle cow $ neck and she a swinging il here and there in way that ought to set it ringing like fire alarm and yet it never made any more noise than if she'd been swinging a piece Of tow rope 1t looked ding spoolly
 But while the mans eyes were bulg- ing at this spool1y performance they gradually took in something that made them bulge more vet A big black snake was milking the brindle COW at the rate of half a pint gulp The man felt all cut up to discover that he had raised such an ungrateful COW as that. But he didn't have any idea yet how really unscrupalous the brindle COW was As the man was gazing on the hlaeksnaze milking the cow, the snake quit it's milking and went forward and climbed one of the cows iorelegs, slid out along her neck. and twisted itself down into the bell Then the man saw why the bell didn't ring
 s.Coiled the whole length of the clap per was another blacksnalle When the iron tongue swung against the sides of the bell the snake was between them, and fl didn't make any more noise than if it had struck a velvet cushion. When the other snake climbed on the bell his companion dropped out of it. and the other one took its place around the clapper to mutlie it while his companion went back to get his share of the cow S milk.
 "sucb duplieity as that was more than the man could put mp with, and he drove the COW home and beefed her. Tf bfindle cows won. | scheme and conspire. what kind of put up-job do vnn call that, then22 said Naturalist Griswold.
 eFhem smart snakes done it said Farmer Bailey.
 smart snakes nothin'r exclaimed Naturalist GriswoId Them snakes mighta been smarter'n Solomon, but they couldn't a done thatif the brindle COW and the bell hadn't been there1 1 could theya'
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