Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
SQUIRE'S COW HAD TO 90
Pochunk Drew the Line on Her Last
Performance
They Couldn't Stand Their Children
BEING Attacked in Revenge
for Their Acts.
From the New York SIM

oeher ody' SAID man from Pochunk,
but she wouldn't have been if his fellow
citizens hadn't at last rose up as one man
against the tyranny of that COW and de-
clared that she must go. She has gone, and
her memory will last a good while in the
Pochunk country. For three years she has
defied the efforts of the townspeople to
keep her out of their Enclosures during gar
den time. There is no other place in that
part of Jersey where garden fences are so
high by two feet as they are in the Pochunk
neighborhood, all on account of the high
jumping habits of Squire Dennis COW. The
people year ago raised their fences 90
high that the COW was no longer able to get
into yards and gardens and fields by her
usual mode of entrance, but to bar her out
only served to develop her genius. Gates
that were securely fastened when people
went to bed at night were found wide open
or lifted off their hinges In the morning,
and bars were let down with regularity
and neatness that no farm hand could excel:
The impress of the hoofs of Squire Dennis
cow leading through these gates and bars
and the unmistakable evidences OF her pres
ence among corn and cabbages, gave notice
to the people that she had taken note OF
their suggestive action in raising their
fences, and resented 1t.
when Squire Dennis cow first came to
town and took possession of it the effect OF
setting dogs on her was tried by several
garden owners whose premises were lnVad-
ed, but she put every dog to flight, even to
the blacksmiths big bulldog, and 1T came
to pass by and by that no dog could be m
duced to go near her. Then certain GU.
zens tried peppering her with shot, put
they lived to regret it, for every member
of their families became q marked person
with the cow, and she charged them OH
sight on the streets.
Esquire Dennis being the leading citizen
of the place and the financial stay OF many
of his aggreved neighbors, they nesltatea
to offend him by taking summary meas
ures against the tyrannical COW, ana as ne
always cheerfully paid any reasonapie OH,
for damages presented by those who had
suffered from the pastimes of the cow foiks
had finally settled down and made the pest
they could of the situation. But the Climax
came one day last week. folks rose against
the COW, and the COW is gone.
ION that day a carload of baled hay ar
rived. Squire Dennis cow was prompuy On
the spot and while the hay was being I'M
loaded appropriated many a large mouth1ui
in spite of the vigilance of the men engaged
in unloading and taking the hay away.
When the men went TO dinner number OF
bales of hay remained In the car. The slid
ing doors of the CIR were left open, most
thoughtless piece of work for men VINO
Nv disappeared before the COW had her mead
in the car. The nearest bale was too FAR
from the door for her to reach 1t, put the
COW was never left in her life, ana she
didn't intend to be left on this occasion:
She turned the situation over in her mind
a few seconds and her plans were made
she walked IWentY IeSl dWdy IIoHi tiiC Nhi
Turning about, she dashed back toward it
at the top of her speed, took running
jump and landed in the car as easily as an
ordinary cow Mould yak tnrou n{r nn open pen
had devoured part of one bale of hay. She
wasn't satisfied with that, and when the
men tried to eject her from the car she
made such a fight that they had to call in
another man. This man was great big
giant of a quarry workman. and he did
more than any one else toward tumbling
the COW out.
1.-The struggle in the car had drawn big
crowd, and when the COW tumbled out the
got to her feet, but paid no attention to any
one around her, except that she glared
fiercely at the quarryman for moment
Two little boys were playing couple of
hundred yards up the road. The cow saw
them, prfcked up her ears and then started
toward them on dead run, She was al
most upon the boys before they saw her.
They took to their heels. The COW follow
ed. and just as the boys were seeking
refuge in yard she caught one of them on
her horns and tossed him across the yard
through an open hall door into the house
The other boy got away.
THE cow threw her nose in the air, sniff
ed few times and then dashed away down
the road toward the Muckshaw meadows
two miles away Folks were excited by this
time, and : good many followed the COW,
but she kept far in advance of all pur-
suers and passed everything on the road.
There was picnic at the meadows, and
the COW approached the roadside grove
where it was held the village band was
playing, thus giving the cow abundant
provocation to pitch in and scatter the
picnic. A quarter of a mile from the road,
on the other side of big field. a small
boy was fishing for horned clubs in a lit
tie brook. The COW ignored the band and
the picnic people, and, clearing the fence
at bound, tore along the field toward the
small boy. The band quit playing and a
large contingent from the picnic followed
the cow shouting to the boy to run and
save himself. The boy was so much alb
sorbed in his pursuit of pleasure and clubs
that the cow was only few rods away
from him when the commotion attracted
his attention. He looked around, took in
the situation and then started to take in
| the fence Before he got there the cow
overhauled him. She caught him with her
horns about foot below the point of
juncture of his trousers and his suspenders
and the boy rose in the air like a paper
| balloon: He came, down. however, like
| lead Of brick. He dropped on the other
| side of the fence The cow seemed entirely
| satisfied then, and submitted to being las
| seed. The boy was not seriously hurt, but
| it was some days before he felt equal to
| fishing for horned chubs again.
| at will never be established, of course,
| that the COW scented that boy away back
at Pochunk and started out to do what
| him. But 1t looked that way, and more
particularly did it look that way, because
not only that boy but the two boys Squire
| Dennis COW had tumbied and touzled be-
| fore she started on her trip to Muckshaw
meadows were the children of the big
| quarryman who had SO unceremoniously
| elected her from the hay car! Cussedness?
Well, good many OF. us over our way
| called it that, and then We rose up.
| Squire said we, the cow must CO. We
have stood by and seen her gather our
| gardens and demolish our fences and
| things, but when sHa turns to and tries
| to make away with our offspring as mat
| ter of vengeance weAcal la halt. Squire
said we, the COW must CO.
I Nha IiraC II ha int yxa
made and he beefed the COW that same
| day." IS -
| Cause ana Eject.