Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-07-20

breath later found that the animal
had attempted TO kick tho pail clear
through him
-How gentle she isl" sneered Mrs.
Jugger. ''The good man said she
was. And she'll give oil the milk
all you can get from her. He said So"
Woman" retorted Jugger, with
81 the dignity that a oadly-licked
man is capable of assuming, you
don't know what you are talking
sbouti It is the strangeness of the
place that makes the cow irritable.
III lead her to the barn, and when
she finds herself in comfortable
quarters, like those. doubtless, to
which she has been accustomed, she'll
be as gentle as dove. See how
anxious she is to be released"
The animal had been surging and
jerking at the rope, and as soon as
be got her united little Wild West
performance began. The COW would
make start, and Jugger, exerting
all his strength, would check her.
She'd plunge and he'd hold; she'd
plunge again and he would hold her
1T the expense of having his arms
nearly dragged out by the roots.
Baked in an attempt 10 rush down
the road, the cow dashed in at the
open gate. Jugger checked her head
long rush toward the cabbage patch
by twisting the rope around the gate
post
A happy thought struck him. He
L. ~ ho
of the rope, and when she started to-
ward the barn, he would let her go
and stop her at the proper time by
ainging 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
ner, 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
be flung the loop over the post. Just
then he thrust his foot into a 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
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 herl Stop herl- 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 fling her to the
earth, Mrs. Jugger grabbed huge
and handy club and made 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
nim senseless, and would have driven
nis 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
ying along behind like a can on a
,ur's tail.
Two trellises were broken down, .
rose-bush was uprooted, and Mrs.
Jugger's prize Mexican cactus had
half of its spines raked of by Jug
ger's body Just as the cow began to
sxhibit signs OF quieting down lit
tie, and Jugger's senses began to
/ come crawling back, a tramp dog
charged at the gate, and the perform
lnce was repeated with many excit-
ng variations. The cabbages in the
garden were scrubbed loose, the ash
hopper knocked galley-west, and the
ombination of man and dog and cow
/ dashed through the fiat side of the
| yraps-arbor three times.
The intention of the dog seemed
70 be to bite something, and when
ne 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
ng trellis, and knocked the big urn
n the front yard completely whap-
fper-jawed. Then, just as it seemed
AS if Jugger's pelt was about TO be
pulled off over his head, the cow
spisd the front gate, and dashed out
Of it, cracking Jugger against the
post on one side. and nearly knock
ng 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-
;ame the late Mr.. Jugger, the rope
.ame off from his leg somehow, and
The COW went up the road and disap-
oeared in a cloud of dust, with the
tramp dog clinging to her hairless
;ail.
Mrs. Jugger gathered UP the rem
aant of her husband and put il to
bed. While she was applying lini-
nent and court-plaster where they