Daily camera., 1901-10-05
4 h.ppx tkoueht .truck him. 3

4 happy thought struck him. He
would mako . moose In the free erd
Of the rope, and when she started to-
ward the harm. be would let her 20
and stop her at the proper time by
Ainging the moose over : convenient
post. The Cow was only excited and
would soon become calm.
Just % the loop was made the cow
started barnward In an unreserved
fashion. and Jugger did not attempt
to check her. but charged along with
her. holding on to the rope, and TAX
ing six-foot Jumps to keep up, and
grinning at the thought OF how the
rope would bring her to time when
he flung the loop over the post. just
then he thrust his foot into hole.
tumbled down. got his foot into the
noose somehow, and the next instant
our poor friend was scrubbing across
the lot dragged by one leg.
The weight. instead Of proving any
drag to the COW, seemed rather to
add to her enthusiasm. and when she
reached the barn she whirled and
dashed back again across the garden.
In vain Jugger attempted to grasp
anything within his reach. He only
succeeded In uprooting anything he
was able to catch.
"Stop her! Stop her!" he shrieked.
as we'll as he was, able with his face
in the dirt.
Not feeling able to seize the COW
by the horns and Nng her to the
.earth. Mrs. Jugger grabbed q huge
and handy club and made dart at
the animal, with the intention OF
cracking her over the head. But the
lady mi.calcu!etcd the speed OF the
COW, and, instead Of hitting her.
gave Jugger tremendous thump on
the back OF the head that knocked
him senselcss, and would have driven
his intellectual cocoanut into the
ground had he not been going SO
fast. Round the house went the
COW like a horned whirlwind. with
the now unconscious Jugger drag
ging along behind like . can on
ours tail.
Two trellises were broken down.
rose-bush was uprooted. and Mrs.
Jugger's prize Mexican cactus had
half OF its spines raked on by Jug
gers body. Just as the COW began to
exhibit signs Of qu;eting down lit
tie, and Jugger's senses began to
come crawling back. tramp dog
charged at the gate. and the perform
ance was repeated with many excit-
ing variations. The cnbbages in the
garden were scrubbed loose. the ash
hopper knocked galley-west. and the
combination of man and dog and COW
dashed through the fiat side OF the
erape-arbor three times.
The intention Of the dog seemed
to be to bite something. and when
he could not get hold Of the COW, he
fastened on to Jugger somewhere
and hung till his teeth jerked loose
They went through the cactus bed
again, broke down the only remain
ing trellis, and knocked the big urn
in the front yard completely whnp-
per-iawed. Then, just as it seemed
A. IL Jugger's pe!t was about to be
puNed of over his head. the COW
spied the front gate, and dashed out
Of II. cracking Juggcr against the
post on one side. and nearly knock
ing the dogs brains out on the other.
Down the road they went and Jug
ger was scarcely visible for the dust.
Then, Just before our friend be-
came the late Mr.. Jugger. the rope
came of from his leg somehow, and
the COW went up the road and disap-
peared in . cloud Of dust, with the
tramp dog clinging to her hairless
tail.
Mrs. Jugger gathered up the rem
nant of her husband and put IL to
bed. While she was applying lini-
ment and court-plaster where they
would do the most good. another Gov
cred wagon. drswn by another pair
Of rusty mules, stopped before tho
house.
low 10 sch9 ih4uhSO s~S oS~e
shanked. plank-shaped driver, as II he
knew exactly what he was talking
about, as Mrs. Jugger appeared at
the doo1.
The lady replied hastily that they
possessed such an animal, but that
she was somcwhere over the hill.
"wal, I reckon kin find her. Give
you ten dollars"
The rapidity with which Mrs. jug
ger accepted the offer was almost
startling, and three minutes later the
plank-shaped man had paid the mon
ey ard was driving up the road in the
wake of the ccw.
Mrs. Jugger learned later that tho
two plank-shaped men were brothers,
and that they made a comfortable
living by selling and buying that cow,
who was seldom long in regaining
her place at the tail-gate Of the first
covered wagon.