The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-02
CAN'T STAY AT FARMER HAYw00D's.

CAN'T STAY AT FARMER HAYW00D'S.
"I find that / am not going to
spend my vacation this year at Farmer
Haywood's, up in Pennsylvania, as I
did last year" said John Gilbert, the
travelling groceryman, land I am
sorry.
"I had a real lively, nice time at
the Haywood farm last season. I
hadn't been there more than two
hours when couple of jealous pigs
got into a fight in the door yard.
The farmers twelve-year-old boy and
the nine-year-old son of neighbor
were playing plumpety-peg in the
yard at the time the strife began.
They sat on the ground near 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
tumbled over it and into the we'll,
which was fifteen 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
we'll, went down the rope like mon
key, grabbed the neighbor's boy by
the hair, and held his head above the
water, yelling like Comanche Indian
all the while. Farmer Haywood's
hired man heard him and rescued both
the kids, while the family danced
about the we'll and hollered and wrung
its hands.
"The hired man had been working
in the garden when the yells of the
boy summoned him. He left the gar
den gate open in his haste.
"The battling pigs ceased battling
and promptly hurried into the garden
the two kids from the depths of the
we'll, the pigs had got away with
nearly the whole of Farmer Hay
woods crop of early peas, and tramp
ed recognition entirely out of his en-
tire setting of tomato plants. When
Farmer Haywood came in and heard
what had been going on he was sur
prised.
Why said he, there hain't no.
body ever fell into that well before,
nor even thought o. doin' it !! And
this is the first time pigs ever spilled
my peas and tomattas crops.
"a day or SO afterward, Farmer
Haywood was out ploughing corn
with one horse to the plough. The
twelve-year-o1d son who had gone
down the we'll after the neighbor's
boy, was driving the horse. was
following behind them, gathering
worms to go bobbing for catfish with.
"By and by the horse stepped in
yellow jackets nest. Some of the
hot-ended occupants of the nest came
OUT and rested on the horse. Instant
ly he began to kick and squeal, and
then away he went across the field as
fast as he could tear, taking the
plough and the boy with him. Far
mer Haywood stood n-mouthed
and speechless a moment, and then
exclaimed.
"'It beats tarnation I've plough
ed this field for goin on to nigh forty
years and never knowed it to have
yaller jackets nest in it bef e!'
"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 half way across
the cornfeld, moving down rows of
corn like cyclone, when he let go.
"The horse cleared two fences in
his later course, parting from the
plough at the first one, and dashed
into an inclosure near the house
where some cows were standing. In
that inclosure was another well, the
curb 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
we'll curb and knocked it over. This
permitted frightened yearling heifer
to back into the top of the exposed
we'll. Her hind quarters went down,
leaving her hanging by her forelegs
to the top of the we'll.
Farmer Haywood's ffteen-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-jacket or two, dashed
in among the cows, and she saw the
disaster his sudden appearance had
caused. She ran to the cowyard, and
grabbing by the horns the heifer that
hung in the well, tugged away at
them with the laudable intention Of
lifting her out of her perilous posi-
ton.
"The heifer, having her doubts
about the ability of fifteen-year-old
girl to hoist unaided 800 or 400 pounds
of beef out of well, started in to
help her by kicking and pushing with
her hind feet against the well wall.
This caused the heifer to lose the
hold her forelegs had on the top of
the well, aud down she went all in a
heap to the bottom. The horse, still
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