Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-27
A RENTED 50
SUMMER COW.
kClTY MANS EXPERIMENT WITH AN
AGRICULTURAL CONDITION.
HJ3IE CAME to the country, as

wv usual, the 1st of June" said
the man who hired the COW. The boy
had gotten through his examinations
with honor-he takes after me in his
fondness for books--and it began to
get warm in the city, SO we started, as
usual, and landed, as usual, in the dear
old place.
Jonathan said my wife to me at
the tea table that night, we must have
q cow
"'Yes,' 1 groaned, and 1 hate the
bother of getting her. That isn't the
meanest part of it, either. The COW mar
lset is always bulled when 1 want to buy
in the spring, and beared when want
TO sell in the fall
Yes said my wife, thoughtfully,
1T doesn't seem as though COW could
deteriorate so much in four months
Its the company she keeps an.
swered. Our hired men would de-
moralize Satan.'
"'How much did you pay for that
Holstein last yearF ssg.
"'Sixty dollars, ard / was mighty
glad to get ten for her in Sepsember.'
Father said John, why don't you
rent 4 cow?'
bright boy said 1. I WILL and 1
did.
II interviewed Farmer Haskins on the
subject first.
"'Well,' said he, I never did rent out
q COW, and don't know as ever heard
of such thing, but, seeingft's you
ing to have any of that nonsense. You
just forget it's me and make believe it's
your son Henry
"'Pshaw,' said the old man, 4
wouldn't rent him the north side Of a
barn to store apples on, or he'd skin my
eye teeth for me. If you're going to be
him, it's no use talking to you,' and he
went off.
well, 1 looked high and low, and al
last found COW and rented her. \
sweet thing she was, Jersey, pretty as q
picture, and, We turtles of Amsterdam
how she could go. I've seen her feed
ing quietly in the pasture at 90 minutes
to nine, and looking as innocent us q
calf, and at % minutes of ten she was
two miles away in john Slocum's corn
The first thing after breakfast would
call up the coachman.
"'Lloyd, is the COW all right% would
ask.
Ives, SIR he would reply.
"'Keep your eye on her. Lloyd.
don't want any complaints to-day
"'.ill right. sir. will. SIR
Half an hour after farmer would
walk up to the front gate driving Gov
before him. He'd halt and look up a
me with little twinkle in his eye.
BE this your critter. Mr.. Jones?'
'"'It looks like her. I'd say, cautious
ly. but l think ours Is in the pas
ture.'
"'Well, I wish you'd find out. !
faint yours I've got to go to Jim Banks
with hor.'
~ ,.u,d call up Lloyd and ask: Il
the COW in the pasture, Lloyd?'
"'Well, sir. she was till ten minute
ago, when l took my eye off her, IN
went to washing the carriage with il
sir
".'See If she's there now
Lloyd would grin.
"'That she mint, sir. That's her b
the post there
"Il1w do you know that's our cow
"I know her. sir That's her sur
the little devil
Then I'd pny damages and we'd pr
I up the COW. And the same scene woul
be enacted with a different farmer th
next day.
THE corn that COW ate, the meadow
I she trampled down, the gardens 81
. browsed over, and the miles she Wake
! were, and are still. source OF inc;
! haustible wonder to me. She climbe
4 the hills into Nod, she roamed dow
I Chicken street, she waded into the re
:. ervoir, she mounted Olmstead hi
: where, with glass, we deserted her on
! lined against the sky and sent Lloyd
4 rescue her. Whether ii was that h
!. pride revolted at being rented, N
owned, or whether she took mi
chievous delight in tormenting MS d
oonea ,ua hniIad from fha pifv do n