The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-11

Tor fear they would hook those colts.
It came into my mind that ! might
make them tread that hay down In the
NOW. My need Of aid was pressing
ran out 90 the lane and called the
colts through the yard into the barn,
then led them across the barn floor
and urged them into the NOW The
hay was just about level with the
barn floor when | drove them IN. and
/ put up q board TO keep them from
coming out. The Whitcomb load was
half on by this time; but / pulled
part Of it bDck, and then, bringing q
horsewhip from the wagon house,
ran those colts mp and down the NOW.
They were fine, plump, heavy colts,
and the way they tramped that herds
grass down was a Joy 20 behold.
The Whitcomb cart had no sooner
backed out Of the barn floor than I'm
came our cart with its second load.
Napoleon had loaded Il hastily, for
the sky was darkeulng.
"Pitch II of! Roll It OFF, I exclaimed
20 the hired man. "I'll take care Of
II! I'll stow Il now as fast as all Of
you can bring Il to me"
would wait TIL l had half a rack
load OF 1t rolled back ana distributed
about a little; then / would get up on
the front Orders with the horsewhip
and send those colts back and forth,
from one end Of the long bay to the
other. Eight feet are much better
than two for ueading down hay and
the difference between 40 pounds Of
boys and 1000 pounds Of colt was at
once apparent. 1t was a great scheme.
Meanwhile the loads came in hurry
and haste. One was no sooner pitched
off TO me than another was ready.
We were all working as swiftly as pos
sible. But while throwing off the
eighth load our hired man suddenly
stopped, leaned on his .ork, and began
to laugh
Say" he drawled, 81 s'pose you
see that this haymow is film up
pretty fast. 1t is up TO the front beams
now. 'Tain't any O. my business, but
how are you goin' to git the colts down
off'n the NOW"
In the heat and hurry of the emer-
gency l had not thought of that, and
they were being elevated higher and
higher with every load In fact, they
were up nine or ten feet above the
barn floor already; too high for them
to jump down without breaking their
legs.
The hired man stood and laughed.
"Those coltsn be up in the roof of the
barn when this field Of hay is in"
said he.
When he drove out to the field he
told Napoleon Of the fix I was getting
into with the colts and Policy came
running in to see about it.
That's a pretty go" he exclaimed.
what will Grandpa Adams say?
don't think you ought to have taken
those colts foc such a job. The dust
is making them cough"
"Well, they might just as well be
on the great beams as where they
are" said I. "Now they are up here,
am going to keep them at it till this
hay is in"
Theren be the mischief to pay il
grandpa finds it out" replied Napo-
leon. He hurried back to the field
however, for the cart was waiting.
I felt rot a little anxious about
the situation; but the loads were
coming think and fast. AS I coul(
could not get the colts down. | KEEP
them treading, and getting higher witt
every load. The rain did not begiI
until nearly five o'clock, and we hauled
in eighteen big loads of that herds
grass, there were only about two loads
that became too wet to get in.
But those eighteen loads had filled
that haymow quite UP to the grea
beams of the barn. AS the hired maj
had anticipated, the cots We're up il
the top of that high barn with hardl,
room to stand under the roof. Trutl
to say, too, they were hot and sweaty
The men from Mr.. Whitcomb's wen
OFF home, laughing over it, as TO
Napoleon and me, the moro we studie
the problem Of geuung the colts dowr
the more difficult it looked. We Sc
long ladder and carried UP tw
buckets Of water TO them and let ther
; stand in the hay and eat what the
3 wanted. In fact, we were tired on
with our hard afternoons work, an
there were the COWS t. milk, aud a
4 the barn chores to co. 1t was satu
, day night and our hired man weI
{ home.
While we were milking we hear
d Grandpa Adams calling the colts