The Monticellonian., 1903-07-09
A LIVELY VACATION
H I FIND that am not going to

G1lDeft, the tIaNeflHS grocer hid u ''and l am sorry.
 II had real lively. nice time al tn, Haywood farm last season. l hsdn'' been there more than two hours wheI couple of jealous pigs got into fight in the door yard. The farmers F year-boy and the nine-year-old son oi neighbor were playing mumblety peg in the yard at the time the strife began. They sat on the ground neal the well curb.
 The battle of the pigs scared the neighbor's boy so that he jumped up climbed on the curb, presumably to get a place of safety, and promptly tum' bled over it and into the well, which was Is feet deep, with about four feet of water at the bottom.
 Farmer Haywood's boy set up a yell, and for fear that no one heard him, let the bucket down into the well, went down the rope like monkey, grabbed the neighbor's boy by the hair, and held his head above the water, yell ing like a Comanche Indian all the while. Farmer Haywood's hired man heard him and rescued both the kids, while the family danced about the well and hollered and wrung its hands.
 The hired man had been working in the garden when the yelis of the boy summoned him. He left the gar den gate open in his haste.
 ''Fhe battling pigs ceased battling and promptly hurried into the garden through the open gate, and by the time the hired man had safely landed the two kids from the depths of the well. the pigs had got away with nearly the whole of Farmer Haywood's crop of early peas, and tramped recognition entirely out of his entire setting of tomato plants. When Farmer Hay wood came in and heard what had been going on he was surprised
 Why said be. there hain't no- body ever fell into that we'll before, nor even thought O doin' of it And this is the first time pigs ever spilled my peas and tomattas crops
 "A day or so sfterNvard. Farmer Hay wood was out blowing corn, with one horse 10 the blow. The 12-year-old son who had gone down into the well after the neighbor's boy was driving the horse. l was following behind them, gathering worms to go bobbing for catfish with.
 By and by the horse stepped into a yellow jackets nest. Some of the hot ended occupants of the nest came out and rested on the horse. Instantly he began to kick and squeal. and then away he went across the field as fast as he could tear, taking the blow and the boy with him. Farmer Haywood stood open-mouthed and speeches. moment. and then exclaimed:
 "'It beats tarnation; I've plowed this field for goin' on to nigh 40 year and l never knowed il to have yaller jackets nest in it beforel'
 Then the farmer and I started in the wake of the horse and the boy The latter had held on to the lines until he was dragged halfway across the eornfeld, moving down rows ot corn like cyclone, when he let go.
 "The horse cleared two fences in his later course. parting from the blow at the first one, and dashed into an inclosure near the house where some COWS were standing. In that inclosure was another well. the curt of which was not as secure on its base as it might have been.
 The sudden appearance of the runaway horse among them scared the cows. One COW ran against the well curb and knocked it over This permitted q frightened yearline heifer 10 back into the top of the ex- posed well. Her hind quarters went down, leaving her hanging by her forelegs to the top of the well.
 Farmer Haywood's 15-year-old daughter was just putting the churn- dog to work on the machine at the back of the house when the horse still ridden by persistent and pene- trative yellow-iacket or two, dashed in among the COWS, and she saw the disaster his sudden appearance had q grabbing by the horns the heifer that hung in the we'll, tugged away at them with the laudable intention of lifting her out of her perilous sit. nation.
 "Fhe heifer. having her doubts about the ability of 15-year-ola girI to hoist unaided 300 or 400 pounds ot beef out of well, started in to helT her by kicking and pushing with Ter hind feet againtt the well wall. Thi, caused the heifer to lose the holt her forelegs had on the top of the well, and down she went all in . heap to the bottom. The horse. stil under the promptings af the yellow jackets, had gone right on. taking tho inclosure fence. and speeding through an adjacent lot without having stopped moment to contemplate the damage he had done.
 'When Farmer Haywood and 1 came panting on the scene the heif CT had just made her descent into the well. With the help of the hireG man and the farmers oldest boy | Jim, the heifer was. with ropes ant tackle. at last hoisted from the well little disfgured, but still chewing her cud. The farmers daughter wen back te her churning. The churr dog. probably in attempting to ge out and see what the excitement il the COW yard was all about, hat leaped over the side of the machin I.,. @ko