The Lamar register., 1906-03-07

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Tile 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, 1.-The horse says" or
1.-The dog told me-" or THE hens saw f"
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 spraintD
it blowing to-day"
81 reckon that mule lied to YOU,
son." remarked his father. II reckon
she's jes' powerful lazy and don't want
to work tomorrow"
"She says she can't work tomor-
row. said the boy. Her leg is so
sore she can't hardly touch it to the
ground"
Il 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
blowing 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 a mark or
swelling on her. for l examined her
closely before taking her out to work"
Persuades Dog to Cease Killing Sheep.
Nav" said Howard another day,
Trace says he had fine time kill
ing sheep the other night"
Listen to the boy" said the moth
er. 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. ''de 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 saA)
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 a
few weeks afterward while eating the
body of a sheep.
Bull Explains Cause of Madness.
When the child was five years old
his power seemed at its greatest. lie
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
init any one to come near 1t. and
raved around its pasture lot as If 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 1t mad
The negroes, under orders. lassoed
the bull, and wire nail was found
sticking in the cleft of its front foot.
fusting 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
we'll.
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 superstitious awH
The animals seemed to know by it,
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 a flock Of
| birds.
The facts reached Prof Shaw. who
investigated and reported that the
| child seemed possessed of strange
and peculiar power-which gradually
was dying out. Without drawing any
definite conclusions he reported the
facts of the case as they were report
ed to him.