The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-21
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SO Stone Was HOIed Up by Bull all
Day and all Night-AIl on Acct.
Of a Red Jndershirt-ThriII-
Ing Details

Eb Stone. who lives on farm which he
/ has been trying 10 lift the mortgage of OF
/ Tor To- these many years. two miles west
/ Of B!ngville. had 4 curious experience
which lasted all day and all night about
the middle Of this week. and which he
VIII remember with horror and lOathing
/ probably as long as nc lives
Eb has a big red bull which ne turned
4 out IN a pasture by Itself Inst week Eb
and the bull have allus got along pref
/ y well together IN the past because Eb
neveI tormenteI the crit r any. That
bull hates the color Of RED worse than a
cat hates water, and II was this dislike
for red on the part Of the bull that got
Eb into trouble, on last Tuesday evg as
Eb was returning home from Bingville
where he had been 10 see II there was any
mail in the p .. for him (there wasn't
I he noticed n breach in the fence OF the
pasture where the bull was. so next morn
ing he decided he would go acrost the
pasture 10 repair the fence il was
hot morning so Eb he slipped of his
Bingham shirt before he started. leav-
ing on bis red wool undershirt.
and ettired IN this wise he started
10 walk acrost the pasture never
[ thinking about how the bull hated red
so. When Ed started Hcrost the bull was
grazing at the one side Of the pasture
and Lb got most half way acrOst before
the bull happened 10 look I'D and see him.
Soon as II got a glimpse Of that red shirt
It down with It's head and up with its
tail and started for Eb Ike a locomotive
and bellerin IS loud as II could heller.
Then II dawned on Eb that he had
went and made a mistake when he took
of HIS overshirt. He looked back the
way he had come. but he realized that
before he could reach the fence the bun
would ketch him. II was also about the
same distance 10 the fence on the other
sides Of the pasture and for mint Eb
said his hair liz right up on end Eb
amt much Of n foot racer anyhow being
/ as he IS crippled up some with rheumatic.
! Well as Eh stood there paralyzed with
ffear 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 nard as he could lick II. Eb 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 ne done Il but ne
Jumped clean UP into the afr 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
again In calling the red bull everything
he could lay his tongue to. This only
seemed to make the bull madder and
madden who walked around the tree
looking up and tossing It's horns and
bellerins as nesty as it could.
Finally Eb begin TO holler for help as
loud as he could boiler. then suddenly
ne happened TO think that there was no
one 10 home but his wife Sary, who Is as
def as q post and can't hear thunder
so then Eb stopped hOllering in disgust
and set there hour after hour, Noon
come and he was so hungry ne said he
could have gnRwed the bark often the
limb he was setting on. To make mat
tiers worse ne 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 10 Eb passed
and the shades OF twilight begin to deep
en-, but still the bull moved around un-
der the tree occasionally setting I'D a
bellering and paving the earth whenever
It happened to git q glimpse of that red
shirt up In the tree.
By this time Eb was most starved and
eXosted, and when he contemplated hav-
ing to remain IN the tree all night, the
thought almost made him sick 70 hts
stummick, II was a awful uncomforta-
BILE place to stay overnight setting astral
die Of limb and holding on for dear
life Eb was scairt lest he should drop
OF to sleep first and then drop down out
Of the Tree Acknowledged have the bull