The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
A cow SVENGALI.
Hypnotizing Other Horned Creatures
Into Fence Trap.


Into Fence Trap.
was sitting at my desk writing when I
heard the voice Of my landlady calling for
assistance, and | ran out to find her
wrestling with a COW that had got her
head fastened in the fence and was about
to demolish the whole structure in at
tempting to free herself, says writer in
the Philadelphia Times.
My beautiful friend had allowed herself
to be so tempted by an experimental patch
of alfalfa that she had scrambled up very
steep and rocky little hill as best she could
from the outside of the fence. This was no
ordinary sensible kind of a fence, but a
fancy tiligree affair." made of 2x2-inch stuff
set upon a stone base, each panel being
about 21zx3 feet in size, with two strips
running from corner to corner on the in
side and crossing in the center.
Into one of these angles the COW had
fastened her head and the more she wrig
gled it the less chance there seemed of her
getting out. How she ever got in it was a
mystery to me, and l had to tear out
panel of fence to set her free.
Instead of scampering away as soon as
she regained her liberty, the COW waited
patiently without until got hammer
and nails and repaired the damage she had
caused me to do. / thought she wanted to
thank me by her presence for my relief in
her distress, but l know now she had
deeper and perhaps not so charitable
motive.
The next afternoon as | sat by my open
window l saw the COW scramble up the mill
from the dusty road below and take her
stand by the very panel of fence where she
had been caught the day before. l won
dered if she were going to repeat her effort
at alfalfa stealing, but pretty soon | saw
she was working a schedule Without ut
tering sound and standing perfectly still,
she fixed her eyes intently on the little
stream of cows as they were passing on
their way to their various homes, but none
of them seemed to take any notice of her
except little clean-limbed Jersey that
came near the end of the procession.
She stopped short, looked intently up at
the COW for a few moments, then, with q
whining kind of low, she tossed her head,
turned and came directly up the hill. The
two COWS stood facing ench other, the Ayr
shire looking fixedly at the Jersey for
moment, then suddenly and with another
low whine the latter poked her head
through the opening in the fence
Immediately the Ayrshire frisked her
tail and sped down the hill, leaving her
victim alone to her fate. OF course, l went
nobly to the rescue, and the poor little
Jersey was all OF trembie when L got
there, and thanked ME with her beautiful
eyes before she turned away after she was
at liberty.
This same thing was repeated every after
noon for whole week, except that each
day the Ayrshire entrapped a new victim,
and the condition of that panel or fence
came to be very far from strong from my
frequent manipulations while rescuing the
cows from their predicament. 1t is really
impossible to tell how long the thing
would have been kept up had 1 not pre-
vailed upon my land1ady to let me board
up that particular panel for the sake of the
suffering cows that were yet to be en-
trapped.
There is certainly no baking powder so
well known and generally used as the
Royal. Its virtues are SO well known to
every housekeeper that the ISLANDERS of the
dishonest makers of the cheaper goods fail
to touch it.