The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

bull undoubtedly mrd ct Jim for spelling
its fun, pursued he f. rmtrs son.
.The tros pt ssing fshe rman got to the
fence and over il only jump or Two ehesd
have overtaken him, all right. but just
as he WIS in the sct CT swinging hins"f
overthe fence the bull came up, proJet ted
himself gainst Jim just below where his
hind suspender buttons we're; end sent
him c ear to the other slice Ct the road,
like some missile shot from a cttapu I.
Jim landed in the brush. and by the time
/ got down there and helped him to got
hinself together and find the road the
Scranton man WIS out OF sight. The pull
WI o grs zng in the lot, as II nofhng htd
happened.
when Jim came limping back to the
house with me we found his 12-year-oid
broth her Just mounting horse to rice away,
and the household IN sTpd;. eSoi,t y III;
AFTER the DOCTOR said Billy. The hired
man has jest he'd two fingers took on by
the mowin' na chne.'
.'It's tarnation singular! said Farmer
HAYWOOD. i never had mowin ms chine
TO act up like that beforel And snoiher
thing, there's a fox prowlin' around here
o. nights. and there hain't been one around
in twenty years before; First thing, we
Jim said he would 8 a trap fer the fox,
and he did The next morning when he
went out 10 the trap he found in it q bloocod
Cotswold ram thit Farmer Haywood
wouldn't have taken $50 fer, The fox he'd
been around, h. u III, for the best Plymouth
Rock rcos err the farmer HI WIS gone.
$50 Farmer Haywood said he would lie
for that fox with the cid gun tn night,
but along in the afternoon ! asked the
farmer " l couldn't take the sun nd go
over 10 the bf ok met COW and shoot a
grounding that was making away with the
Gle yer CiIp,
.'You KIN take the gu7.' eaid he. and you
kin 20 over to the back medder. but
dunno whether you kin shoot the ground
hog or not
Z took the gun and went. I got a good
easy shot at the ground hog ard bis zed
away The gun busted into dozen pieces.
One piece thumped calf that was standing
neaI and made veal q sI
Haywood, when he heard abb ut IL. 1 carried
that gun from Bull Run TO the end O the war
ard I've shot bushels o squirrels with it
sc &c, and II never busted before!.
and had TO leave Farmer Haywood's. arc
l was sorry. There wasn't any great
demoi. 1t ration by the folks at the farm over
my going. but ! didn't think anything OF
that, Of course. ard having made up my
mind to quarter myself at the farm again
this summer. and beh.g up in that vicL.i,y
last week, thought i would drive down
and make my arrai gcmeLts with the farmer
| for M prospective stay.
4 va, within a mile or 30 OF the farm
when 4 anne to a big black hog lying In the
sun at the edpe Of the road He ernnted
lozIly as my horse passed along by him. AID
his indolei,t ,vi.ts i,t WAS 30 aggravating
that hit him a cut with my whip.
THE hog jumped up. and with series OF
loud snorts welt ganoping down the road
ahead Of me. His app ance was FORM
liable, and II was not strsr g that horse,
drawing spring wagon wi. . man bumped
, up on the seat, and coma from the
| other direction, became frightened at the
| noisy least. The horse ieaied up, and
! turned square around In the road. upsettins