Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-01

by twta5ias s.e rope around rne gate
post.
A happy thought struck him. He
would make a moose in the free end
of the rope, and when she started to-
ward the barn, he would let her go
and stop her at the proper time by
| flinging the moose over a convenient
post. The cow was only excited and
would soon become calm.
Just as 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 taxi
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 a hole,
tumbled down. got his foot into the
moose 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 well as he was able with his face
in the dirt.
Not feeling able to seize the COW
by the horns and fling her to the
earth, Mrs. Jugger grabbed a huge
and handy club and made a dart at
the animal. with the intention OF
cracking her over the head. But the
lady miscalculated the speed of the
COW. and. instead of hitting her,
gave Jugger a tremendous thump on
the back of the head that knocked
him senseless, 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
cling along behind like a can on
ours tail
Two trellises were broken down, a
rose-bush was uprooted, and Mrs.
Jugger's prize Mexican cactus had
half of it's spines raked off by Jug
gers body. Just as the COW began to
exhibit signs of quieting down a lit
tie, and Jugger's senses began to
come crawling backrra tramp dog
charged at the gate, and, the perform
ance was repeated with many excit-
ing variations. The cabbages 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
grape-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 whap-
per-iawed. Then, just as it seemed
as if Jugger's pelt was about to be
pulled off over his head, the COW
spied the front gate, and dashed out
of it. cracking Jugger against the
most 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 off from his leg somehow, and
the cow went up the road and disap-
peared in a cloud of dust, with the
tramp dog clinging to her hairless
| tail.
Mrs. Jugger gathered up the rem
nant of her husband and put 1t to
bed. While she was applying lini-
ment and court-plaster where they
would do the most good, another COW
cred wagon, drawn by another par
of rusty mules, stopped before the
house
Cow to sellP" inquired the gangle-
shanked, plank-shaped driver, as If he
knew exactly what he was talking
about, as Mrs. Jugger appeared at
the door.
The lady replied hastily that they
possessed such an animal, but that
She was somewhere over the hill.
oval. l reckon l 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 and was driving up the road in the
wake of the cow.
Mrs. Jugger learned later that the
two plank-shaped men were brothers,
and that they made a comfortable
living by selling and buying that cow,
who was seldom long in regalnlng
her place at the taH-gate of the first
covered wagon.
Status of the British Isles.
The population of Scotland, as re-
vealed by the new census, now ex'
ceeds that of Ireland by 15,411, the
figures being, for Scotland, 4,471, 1857
and for Ireland, 4,456,546. Neverthe-
less, Scotland, which is enormously
the richer country, has only " mem
bers. while Ireland has 103. England
contributes so per cent. of the revenue
and has little more than 70 per cent. Of