The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-02
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when Farmer Haywood and ]
came painting on the scene the heifer
had Just made her descent into the
we'll. With the help of the hired man
and the farmers oldest boy, Jim, the
heifer was, with ropes and tackle, at
last hoisted from the we'll, a little dis
figured, but still chewing her cud.
The farmers daughter went back to
her churning. The churn dog, prob
! ably in attempting to get out and see
what the excitement in the cowyard
was all about, had leaped over the
side of the machine and hanged him
self by the rope that held him.
Why said Farmer Haywood.
I've had more'n twenty churn dogs
on this farm, and l never knowed one
to do setch thing as that before I
Farmer Haywood had a blooded
bull. A trout stream ran through
the pasture where the bull was boss.
A man, supposed to be from Scranton,
sought that trout brook early ope
morning, although anglers were dis
tinctly and emphatically warned by
many notices posted along it that
trespassing on that brook was forbid
den and would be punished to the
full extent of the law, and was whip
ping it with some success, could see
from the hill not far away, where
was making a feast from the black
berry bushes.
"By and by he heard rumbling
noise behind him. He looked that
way and saw Farmer Haywood's bull
coming for him, head down and tail
up, and not fifty feet away. The
fisherman dashed across the brook
and, as to the bull kept right on, con-
cluded not to try speed with animal,
Skinned up small chestnut tree at
the brookside.
"The bull paved dirt and roared,
and showed no disposition to go away.
Owing to the notices on the trees.
along the brook, the Scranton man,
suppose, did not care to holler for
help, but after being kept on his perch
for two hours by the bull, whose pa
tience was only equalled by his fierce
ness, the fisherman evidently con-
cluded that he would prefer getting
caught by the farmer to being treed
indefinitely by the bull, for he began
to yell for some one to come and res
cue him. / had remained among the
berry bushes, but did not feel equal
to the task of rescuing the man from
the bull.
"After a quarter of an hour or so,
though, his yelling was heard by
Farmer Haywood's son Jim, who was
on his way to back lot, and Jim
went to the aid of the treed fisher
man. The attention of the bull was
no sooner drawn from the fisherman
by the approach of the farmers son
than the fisherman dropped down
out Of the tree aud made. tracks for
son or to give thanks to him for Eis
rescue.
"The farmers son, with the inten-
ton of overhauling the trespasser and
marking him for future reference as
as exhibit in a lawsuit, started on a
run after him. The bull, undoubted-
ly mad at Jim for spelling its fun,
pursued the farmers son.
"The trespassing fisherman got to
the fence and over it only a jump or
two ahead of Jim and tore down the
road. Jim would have overtaking
him, all right, but just as he was in
the act of swinging himself over the
fence the bull came up, projected
himself against Jim just below where
his hind suspender buttons were, and
sent him clear to the other side of the
road, like some missile shot from a
catapult. Jim landed in the brush,
and by the time I got down there and
helped him to get himself together
and find the road the Scranton man
was out of sight. The bull was
grazing in the lot, as if nothing had
happened.
"When Jim came limping back to
the house with me we found his
elve-year-old brother just mount
ing a horse to ride away, and the
household in great excitement.
Where you goin' to, Billy?' said
Jim to his brother.
"'After the DOCTOR said Billy.
The hired man has jest had two fin
gers took off by the moving machine. ;
"'It's tarnation sing lar + said
Farmer Haywood. I never had a
mowin' machine to act up like that
before And another thing there's
a fox prowlin' around here O. nights,
and there hain't been one around in
twenty years before. First thing
we know there'll be some chickens
missin'.'
"Jim said he would set trap for
the fox, and he did. The next morn
ing when he went out to the trap he
found in it blooded Cotswold ram
that Farmer Haywood wouldn't have
taken $3.50 for. The fox had been
around, though, for the best Ply
mouth Rock roasted the farmer had
was gone.
80 Farmer Haywood said he
would lie for that fox with the old
gun that night, but along in the after
noon I asked the farmer if l couldn't t
take the gun and go over to the back
meadow and shoot grounding that
was making away with the clover
crop.
"'You kin take the gun, said he,
and you kin go over to the back
medder, but l dunno whether you
kin shoot the grounding or not
IT took the gun and went. I got
a good easy shot at the grounding
and blazed away. The gun busted
into dozen pieces. One piece thump-
ed calf that was standing near, and
made veal of it instantly.
why. tarnation take il all = said