The Lamar register., 1895-09-28
Mr.. WORTHEY'S COW.
-4E ANIMAL OBJECTED TO A
PROPOSED TRADE.
Losing It's Temper It Gave woicott VII
iagc Very Lively Quarter of Hour
Charged Citizen BenJsnatn aad
His fitehfork-

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cow. Farmer Lawson Matthe~s lives
q mile south of the village He had
nice 6-year-old bay horse. The
other day Farmer worthey agreed
to trade his neighbor the mulley cow
and two yearlings for the bay horse.
and started TO deliver the cattle and
fetch home the cow
The COW went along without max
ing much protest until the farmer
got her as far as the village He
was leading her by rope. and the
two yearlings followed meekly be-
hind her. As the procession was
passing up New Hart tford street the
muley COW was suddenly seized with
the idea that she had gone far
enough She made dash for Farmer
Worthey. who was trudging along
unsuspectlngly at the other end Of
the rope She struck him with her
head just below his hind suspender
buttons says the New York sun.
The impact raised the farmer on his
feet and mbled him in the road
several feet further ahead Befor
he could get up the muley COW was
upon him. bunting him hercely with
her bard forehead and tranpling him.
The cows attack on Farmer
Worthey was made directly In front
of Fred Beniamin's house Benjamin
was trimming shrubbery in his front
yard
"Hay up. there, 60 1ongr' he
shouted. as ne ran toward the COW.
The COW heard him. She adjourned
from Farmer Worthey and turned on
n ID
much business in the way that she
rushed for Benjamin that he turned
and made all the haste he could back
toward his yard lie reached the
yard, but reached 1t a good deal
quicker than he would have done II
the muiey COW had not overtaken
him before lie got there She pro-
jected her head against Citizen Ben
jamin about the same locality that il
had come in contact with Farmer
Worthy, lifted MIN clear over the
barbed wire fence that incloses his
grounds. and sat MIN down half way
across his yard. The COW collided
with the fence and became tangled
up in its Jagged wires. which tore
deep into her hesh. adding to her
fury. she battered away at the
fence until she had demolished it.
and then dashed on. covered with
blood and believing with rage.
By the time she got through the
dence Citizen Benjamin had armed
himself with pi,chfork. With this
held forward like bayopet he
awaited the muley cows mad charge.
She ran her head against the sharp
tines of the fork. and they bent back
on the handle like green willow
twigs. Citizen Benjamin was hurled
backward to the ground by the force
OF the cows charge
Fortunately for Citizen Benjamin
the village school was let out about
that time. and lot OF school chill
dren. attracted BY the rumpus the
muley cow had Kicked up. came
trooping noisily along TO see il out,
Their shouts turned the attention OF
the ugly COW from the PROSTATE cit
izen to them. and she left him aud
rushed wildly toward a group of
children. Besides the children a
number of men and women had coll
lected in the road. When the muley
COW dashed out into the road again
men. women and children fied in ter
ror, and in moment not only men
and boys but women and girls had
climbed into trees that stood near.
While all this was going on
Farmer Worthey had been carried
into n house. unconscious from the
injuries his muley COW had inflicted
upon him The two yearlings.