River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-06-16

in em for the last five years. Here he
comes, and he cost me only $500
As the bull came on, Uncle Job
warmed up.
THAT unmitigated bull said he,
has butted and stomped my rantanker-
Gus red wagon into kindlin' wood, as
sure as rootybagies, and has tore them
horses into shoestrings, I'll bet a cooky.
Maybe | won't lambaste that pesky crit
ter when he gifts here
There isn't any doubt that Farmer
Jackson honestly intended to lambaste
the critter, but he wasn't entirely post
ed on the bulls points. When Bolero
NV. got within few rods Of the
farmer and his hired man he stopped,
gazed at them a moment, snorted,
shook his head, lowered ii, and then
rushed toward them with as much vim,
vigor and fury as he had displayed
when he resented the red wagons glar-
ing defiance and charged upon it from
the baruyard.
wow it happened that this occurred
in the road directly in front of Farmer
Jacksou's sinkhole lot. When the bull
came down the road on the double
quick, snorting and frothiug, and plain
" intent on wipiug the farmer and his
man out of his path, Uncle Job changed
his mind about the lambastng he had
in store for the ugly brute, and he and
his hired man broke for the lot, got over
the fence, and started across the lot
toward the woods on the other side.
The bull followed. The fence was no
more a barrier 20 his advance than the
barnyard fence had been, and he went
through ii with equal force.
David said Farmer jackson, as he
and the hired man sprinted side by side
across lots, they told me that bull
would follow me like kitten. He's
dom of il, David, but it's a wild cats
kitten, grcwed up
Owing to the quicksand Enclosure
in the lot, Uncle Job and David had TO
make a rather circuitous course to
reach the vantage ground they were
headed for The bull, probably having
found fences of so little account in his
way that ii was pleasure for him to
pass through them, took the short cut
across the lot 10 head the men off,
which brought the fence inclosing the
sinkhoie directly in his path. He
dashed upon the fence and down ii went
with a crash. Over its ruins he leaped,
straight upon the unstable spot the
fence had guarded. Instantly he sank
IN the treacherous nire, and Farmer
L. =, \ ~. I
;he fence and turned his head to look
saw the catastrophe. He and his man
hurried back to the spot, and got there
in time to see the bull disappear be-
meath the surface of the sinkhole, and
it closed over him and lay as smooth
as if it had never been disturbed. BY
and by Farmer Jackson said:
david, let this be warnin' to you
Never paint your wagons red
Farmer jackson and his man got
back 10 the road in time to meet a
neighbor leading the runaway team
The bull hadn't torn them into shoe
strings, as Uncle Job declared his will
Ii.gness to bet he had, but the red
wagon wasn't there.
cra.t wagon that stirred up all this
rumpus?' said Farmer jackson.
"'Well, said the neighbor, its strung
pretty much all along the road 'twix;
here aud my place, a mile or so furder
down. Pears 10 me, Uncle Job, as il
that wagon was a leetle the darudest
reddist git-up of a vehicle | ever see
Why, say, when these horses o. yourn
was kickin' it TO flinders, darned if the
splinters didn't look like blazin' pine
knots flynn as they scattered and
whirled through the air. They was good
as Fourth o July fireworks
Farmer Jackson took his horses and
went home, and he hadn't got over his
furry yet when l drove up. And that
was why when | asked him what had
| happened he mopped his face and said:
John, | don't know how fur down
he will git, but if you should ever &c
to China and see or hear of one chasn'
red wagons around the country, you
can make up your mind it's him. IN
Y Sun.