The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
A cow svE1GALI.
HypnOsIzes Other Horned Creatures
Into the Fence.
From the Philadelphia Times.


From the Philadelphia Times.
I was sitting at my desk writing. when
I heard the voice OF my landlady calling
for assistance, and I ran out, TO find her
wrestling with a cow that had gotten her
head fastened in the fence and was about
TO demolish the whole structure in at
tempting to free herself.
Ny beautiful friend had allowed herself
TO De so tempted by an experimental patcn
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 fancy hligree affair, made Of
twO-by-two inch stuff set upon stone
base. each panel being about two and
half by three 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 fast
ened her head, and the more she wriggled
it the less chance there seemed of her get
ting out. How she ever got in il was
mystery to me. and I had to tear out a
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 a hammer and
nails and repaired the damage she had
caused me to do. l thought she wanted to
thank me by her presence for my relief in
her distress, but l know now she had
deeper, and, perhaps, moi. so charitable
motive.
The next afternoon. as I sat by my open
window, saw the COW scramble up the hill
from the dusty road below and take her
stand by the very panel of fence where she
had been caught the day before.
1 wondered if she were going to repeat
her effort at alfalfa stealing, but pretty
soon l saw she was working a schedule.
Without uttering a sound and standing
perfectly still she fixed her eyes intently
upon the little stream of cows as they
were passing on their way to their vari-
GUS homes, but none of them seemed TO
take any notice of her. except a 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 a
whining kind of low, she tossed her
head, turned and came directly up the
hill. The two COWS stood facing each
other the Ayrshire looking fxedly at the
Jersey for a 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, 1
went nobly to the rescue. and the poor
little Jersey was all of a tremble when /
got there, and thanked me with her boauti-
full eyes before she turned away after
she was at liberty.
This same thing was repeated every az
ternoon for a whole week, except that
each day the Ayrshire entrapped a new
victim, and the condition of that panel of
fence came to be very far from strong
from my frequent manipulations while
rescuing the cows from their predica-
ment. 1t is really impossible to tell how
long the thing would have been kept up
had not I prevailed upon my Iandlady to
let me board up that particular panel For
the sake of the suffering COWS that were
yet to be entrapped.