The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-21
ZREED!
Eb Stone Was HoIed Up by a Bull al Day and all Nisht-AI' on Acct.
 of Red Undershirt-ThriII. Ing Details

ED Stone. who lives on a farm which he has been trying to lift the mortgage off of l for To- these many years. two miles west of Bingville, had a curious experience which lasted all day and all night about the middle of this week. and which he will remember with horror and loathing probably as long as he lives.
 Eb has a big red bull which he turned out in a pasture by itself last week. Eb and the bull have allus got along pret- ty we'll together in the past because ED never tormented the critter any. That bull hates the color of red worse than a cat hates water, and 1t was this dislike for red on the part of the bull that got ED into trouble. On last Tuesday ev'g as ED was returning home from Bingville where he had been to see if there was any mail in the P. O. for him (there wasn'D he noticed a breach in the fence of the pasture where the bull was so next morn ing he decided he would go acrost the pasture to repair the fence. It was a hot morning so Eb he slipped off his gingham shirt before he started, leav- ing on his red wool undershirt. and attired in this wise he started to walk acrost the pasture never thinking about how the bull hated red so. When Eb started acrost the bull was grazing at the one side of the pasture and Eb got most half way acrost before the bull happened to look up and see him. Soon as 1t got a glimpse of that red shirt 1t down with its head and up with its tail and started for Eb like locomotive and bellerin as loud as 1t could boiler.
 Then 1t dawned on Eb that he had went and made mistake when he took off his overshirt He looked back the way he had come. but he realized that before he could reach the fence the bull would ketch him. It was also about the same distance to the fence on the other sides of the pasture and for mint Eb said his hair rig right up on end. ED ain't much of a foot racer anyhow being as he is crippled up some with rheumatiz Well. as Eb stood there paralyzed with fear his eye fell on a big ellum tree which stood alone in the middle of the pasture. so he dug out for that tree jest as hard as he could lick it. ED says he didn't get there more than two rod ahead of that bull and that the lowest limb of the tree was at least calkilashion fifteen foot from the ground. He says he don't know how he done 1t but he jumped clean up into the air until he got holt of the lower limb and pulled hisself into the tree jest as the bull rushed under him bellering and paving up the ground.
 Eb set there and rested until he got his breth. then he swore hisself outen breath dSdln m CalHnS the red pull everything he could lay his tongue to. This only seemed to make the bull madder and madder who walked around the tree looking up and tossing it's horns and pickering as nasty as 1t could.
 Finally ED begin to holler for help as loud as he could holler, then suddently he happened to think that there was no one to home but his wife Sary. who Is as deef as a post and can't hear thunder so then ED stopped hollering in disgust and set there hour after hour. Noon come and he was so hungry he said he could have gnawed the bark offen the limb he was setting on. To make mat ters worse he seen Sary come out in the yard and she rung the dinner bell Eb waved his arms and yelled but she never heard him. Being as Eb lives three quarters of a mile from the main road nobody passing would hear him either. awful long afternoon to Eb passed en. but still the bull moved around un- der the tree occasionally setting up a pickering and paving the earth whenever 1t happened to git a glimpse of that red shirt up in the tree.
 By this time Eb was most starved and exosted, and when he contemplated hay ing to remain in the tree all night. the thought almost made him sick to his 'stummick It was a awful uncomforta ble place to stay overnight setting astrad- dle of a limb and holding on for dear life. Eb was scairt lest he should drop off to sleep first and then drop down out of the tree afterwards and have the bull