The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-03
WILD RIDE ON A BULL
-esa,eLs EXPERIENCE OF A Plucky
pcNNcYLvsHiA womAN.

~. Pidden-The Return Trip .
,,o,g Cbarge-A Heroic Exploit.
uho emergencies which made heroines
many women of the early colonial
Avs have not even now ceased to arise
49, =. come parts even of the older settled
III oG If the country. An instance in
pois Inc occurred only a few days since,
'ni, .r;tbin a few hours ride OF New
w n which might well go down WITH
80 ~ the pluckiest exploits OF TIE
pioneer mothers c.
tn desolate, lonely place near Star
40 Pa. there lives family consisting
~ husband. wife and a young daught.'.
%ho husband has to be away from homs
aood deal ON account Of the nature ~
s;s work and was away recently when
n;s daughter was taken i'll. The mother
-Larsted her store &C household RENE
dies. but the girl gr~v rapidly worse.
Tbere was not dowor within more
.hon four miles, and there was no neigh
hor within reach to 60 Io- him.
put even that was not all the poor
rotber's source of perplexity. The girls
condition was fast becoming SO ALARM
inc that, desperate as the step seemed,
she saw that she AUST herself go for the
doctor. And there las no horse to take
her Her husband wes too poor to own
horse even if ha had much use Tor one,
,,bicb he had not Tho wild mountain
roads were rough a.'d c'""ged in places
with snow. To thil.r OF undertaking
the tourney Oh foot and ever getting to
the doctor in time to bring him to the
sick girls bedside in season to have his
service of any avail seemed litt' short
Of madness.
But the doctor must be reached, 9TH
erwise the child's deatli seemed certain.
The woman went to the doorway OF har
little home and looked forlornly out on
the bleak wintry hills. Then an idea
came to her. 1t was desperate, but the
situation demanded desperate measures.
Among the live stock her husbah@ owned
was young and frisky bull, b. -ely 2
wears old, but rather tanned down by
scanty rations and the general winter
depression. He was skinny, and his
backbone suggested q serrated .idge of
miniature peaks. But the bruta haG
abundant strength to travel, and IT he
could be dubbed into some sort on s-"se
be might serve as conveyance
There was nothing to hitch to; he
must be ridden. So after exhaustive
maneuvering the plucky woman man.
aged to get rope tied to each Of hil
Oh, nlt1h in hnp
hand, she at last managed to mount
him and head him out into the high
way. He proved q very sensible and de-
Gently disposed sort if beast, obeying
the sharp jerks to the right and left
from the ropes OH his horns and gallop-
ing off finely along the road when he
was properly encouraged by the club. 1t
was not an equestrian expedition that
would quite do for the park, but the
poor mother thought little Of that. Sha
was after the doctor to come and save
her child from death, and after nearly
two hours rough jolting she got there.
The doctor was not at home, and il
would be some time before he would re.
turn, but his wife promised for him
that he should respond to that call if he
never did to another She urged the
woman to wait and ride back with him,
but she would not listen to it.
She must get back to her child, and
Oh she went again on her grotesque
mount. The bull had settled down to a
philosophic acceptance of the situation
by this time and started off at brisk
canter, possibly with some sordid asso.
citation in his intellectuals between tho
homeward road and the shelter and fod.
Ger at the end of it. About mile from
Inc house he saw man driving noun.
tam wagon along the road in front of
MIN, and that man had the inconceiv.
aDle lmpudence to wear red shirt.
From that time OH the return trip
was one wild, headlong charge. The
man heard the snorting and clatter be-
nind him, and when he looked around
anu got glimpse of the awful night.
mare freak that was pursuing him he
iashed his horses onward with the very
frenzy of fright.
There was no need of the club now.
i'leii by the wayside, and the woman 4
energies were devoted to hanging on.
cue chung to the bulls back until he
reached her home, when she rolled of
unnamed in the snow, while the bull
anu the man in the red shirt disap.
psared In cloud Of flying snow and
siavei over the crest of the nearest hill.
a.. as 'ne last accounts no tidings of either
"1 one or the other had been received
49,. out the doctor came along soon aftn
anu mad two patients ON his hands, fol-
a %. mother. too, had to take to her bed
,o. '.r ner rough experience. Her daugh.
t0a lie was saved, however, and she.
wv W. VIII soon be none the worse for hel
'oio exploit. New York World.