The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-17
Seth Awful
Fooled!
Cur Heroic Town constubble Thort
He Had Went and ost HIS Cow
But He Was MistoOken

Seth Dewberry. our heroic town con-
stubble. had a turrible extraordinary ex-
perlence last week and the fellows around
town are pleggin Seth so that he is most
ashamed 20 90 outen the house
As everybody knows Seth has old red
COW with short horns and a few white
spots on her which he has had in the
family goln on fifteen years. He calls
her spot" because there IS spots on her.
Well. on Wednesday morning Of last week
Seth he went out and MIXED Old Spot as
usual and then turned her out 20 pasture.
Long about milking time that same even
IN when Seth took the milk pail and went
out to the barn old Spot wasn't any
where 20 be saw. but there right in the
same spot where Spot allus waits TO be
milkd every night was strange COW
that Seth couldn't remember Of having
saw before IN all his life, so far as he
could recolleckt.
This strange COW had horns that must
Of been about IS inches long. whereas
Spots horns wasn't more than six inches
long and one Of them wasn't that long.
being as It had been broke Of several
years ago. when Seth got mad at old
/ Spot because she stepped on HIS foot
while he was miIkin her he UP and
heaved a rock at her and broke one OF
her horns about half on. This strange
COW also hadn't no white spots on her
Ike old Spot had-she was red all over.
When Seth saw this COW standing there
and couldn't see his own cow anywhere,
ne was terrible flahbergasted He turned
the strange COW with the long horns out
into the main road and told her 10 go
along. then he called Spot as loud as
he could boiler. but Spot didn't come
Being as Il was getting dark fast. Seth
] he hunted ali over the field where he had
( turned the COW out into that morning and
hunted and hunted but no Spot could he
find. When he came back to the barn
there was that strange COW standing IN
the road waiting TO be let in. Seth he
driv her of again and went to the house
In disgust
That night at Hen Weathersby's store
Seth give out that he had lost his COW
Spot and told all the fellers IN the store
he would be obliged II they ssw her TO
let him know about IT, Next mornin
when Seth went out to the barn TO feed
there was that tarnation long-horned red
cow waitin out in the road by the barn
Seth he must have driv her of down the
road nine times that day but she come
back every time and Seth he got dis
couraged trying 20 make her keep or
- her in he
being as he thought whoever owned her
would come around In a few days and
then he might make a lit.'e odd change
in charging them for her keep. Mean
while he didn't hear hide nor hair of
Spot. Next morning Seth turned the red
COW odt In the feld-that is the day II
rained 80 horrible. In the evening when
Seth found the strange COW waiting at
the barn yard gate he could hardly be
lieys his own eyes when he saw that she
had white spots on her Just like his old
Spot. This naturally made him suspi-
cious and he begin 20 look at her very
critical Still he didn't think she was
his cow because look at the long horns
she had Seth, he went up TO her and
took holt OF one OF her horns and blamed
If II didn't come of in his hand Then
he took holt OF the other horn and pulled
and it came of too and 10 and behold
there stood his old COW Spot Just as nat
urai as life.
Seth says II in his capacity as town
constable he ever finds out who the hends
IN human form was that went and stuck
a couple OF long cows horns on the horns
OF old Spot and then went and painted
out her white spots with red paint, he
viii arrest them and give them the full
extsnt Of the law