The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09

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The negroes vowed he had second
sight
At times the child would get up as
if he had been called and trot out
through the yard and into the barn lot
TO some animal. Then he would
come back and report. He always used
the expression, THE horse says" or
THE dog told me-" or THE hens say"
just as if he had been talking with
them.
Told by Mule Of Its Injury.
One evening his father. tired from
the days work, was lying on the grass.
when Howard came trotting in from
the barn.
Paw" he said, "Jem told me her
knee hurt her. She says she sprained
it plowing to-day"
son." remarked his father. Il reckon
she's jes' powerful lazy and don't want
to work tomorrow"
"She says she can't work to-mor-
row." said the boy. Her leg is SO
sore she can't hardly touch it to the
ground
81 reckon she's just tellin' you that
SOS you'll tell me-" remarked the
father
The next day Jem was put to work.
but before noon her leg was so swollen
that Erwin was forced to abandon his
plowng and bring the suffering animal
into the barn. And for weeks she was
unable to work.
Il don't understand it." remarked
the man. "There wasn't mark or
a swelling on her, for | examined her
closely before taking her out to work"
Persuades Dog to Cease ..::":ins Sheep.
Nav" said Howard another day,
Trace says he had a fine time kill
ing sheep the other night"
Listen to the boy" said the moth
err The idea of Trace killing sheep.
Why, there isn't any sheep around
here, except Mr.. Tomlinson's and
none of them has been killed"
We'll" argued the boy, sac says
him and the Norton dog killed two
sheep in Mr. Tomlinson's back pas
ture."
And the next day the carcasses OF
two sheep were found in the bushes
at the edge of the pasture.
you'd better tell Trace he'll be
killed If he does that any more," said
the father.
Shortly afterward Howard report
ed that Trace had promised never to
kill sheep any more-and, so far as
is known, he never has, although the
Norton dog was caught and killed
few weeks afterward while eating the
body Of sheep.
Bull Explains Cause of Madness.
When the child was five years OH
his power seemed at its greatest. He
was sent for by planters from all the
country around when valuable animals
got sick. He would walk to the side
of the sick animal, slowly stroke its
head with his hand-and then come
away and tell exactly what the matter
was Once, when Major Pettit's Dur
ham bull got wild, refused to per-
nit any one to come near It, and
raved around its pasture lot as II mad,
the boy calmly walked up to it, and
after time, came away and reported.
"The bull says that there is some
thing hurting its foot and that the
pain is making it mad
The negroes, under orders. lassoed
the bull, and wire nail was found
sticking in the cleft of its front foot,
rusting while the wound festered. He
reported that a valuable horse belong
ing to Gen. Dunston, merely had the
toothache, after veterinarians had
tried in vain to cure it-and, when
the tooth was removed the horse got
well.
He told what the pet rabbits said.
he even talked with the pigs. and in
time, as the facts became known, he
was regarded with surerstitious awe.
The animals seemed to know by in
stinct that he understood them and
even the wild rabbits and the pos
sums would come to him, and the
wild BIRDS did not seem a bit afraid
of him. Often when he sat in the
front yard in front of the house he
would be surrounded by flock of
birds.
The facts reached Prof. Shaw, who
investigated and reported that tho
child seemed possessed of q strange
and peculiar EOwer-which gradually
was dying out. without drawing an.s
definite conclusions he reported tn,
facts Of the case as they were rcpor.-
ed to him.