The Washington herald., 1908-07-26
.EB STONES TER
BULLEXPERIHNSE
Twas Eh'S Own Bull but if He Had
ut GIOmh 4 Tree MlghtJ Quick
We Would Have a Funeral
all Right

Eb Stone- who lives on q farm which
he has been trying 20 lift the mortgage
on OF 1or 10, these many years two
miles vest OF Bingvflle, had a curious
experience which lasted all day and all
night about the middle Of this week
and which he viii remember with hor-
TOT 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 aIways got along
pretty well together in the past because
Eb never tormented the crftter any.
That bull hates the color Of red worse
than a cat hates soap, and It was this
dislike for red on the part of the bull
that got Eb into trouble. On last Tues
day ev'g as Eb was returning home
from Bingville where he had been 10
see II there was any mail in the P o.
FOR him (there wasn't he noticed q
/ breach IN the fence Of the pasture
where the bull was. so next morning he
decided he would 90 acrosI the pasture
20 repair the fence. It was a bot morn
( ing so Eb he slipped or his gingham
shirt before he started. leaving on his
{ red wool undershirt. and attired IN this
] wise he started 20 walk acrost the pas
Z ture never thinking about how the bull
hated red so. When Eb started scrosJ
1.-THE bull was grazing az one side OF
/ the pasture and Eb got most half way
/ scrOst before the bull happened 20 look
/ up and see him. Soon as II got a
/ glimpse Of that red shirt Il down with
[ its head and Up with its tail and start
I ed for Eb like a locomotive and beller-
in as loud as II could beller.
/ Then Il dawned on Eb that he had
went and made a mistake when he took
Z of his overshirJ- 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
tie same distance 10 the fence on the
J other sides OF the pasture, and for a
mint Eb said his hair riz right I'd on
I end Ed amt much Of a foot racer any
: how. being as he Is crippled I'd some
, with rheumatic. Well. as Eb stood there
! paralvzsd with fear his eye fell on a
7 big eIlum tree which stood alone in the
middle OF the pasture 50 he dug cut
for that tree Jest ss hard as he could
lick it. Ed says he didn't get there more
than two rod ahead Of that bull and that
I the lowest limb OF the tree was at least
| calkilashion 10 foot from the ground
lie says he don't know how he done Il
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 bellerinE anc
paving up the ground
Ed set there ana rested until he got hi-
breth, then he swore hisself outer Urestr
again in calling the red bull everything
he could lay his tongue 20. This only
seemed TO make the bull madder anc
madder who walked around the tree
looking I'D and tossing its horns aac
beilering as nasty as It could
Finally Eb begin to holler for help q.
loud as he could hOiier. then suddfntIr
ne happened 70 think that there was n,
one az home but hts wife Sary. who 4
as deaf as a post and can't hear thunder
so then E,b stopped hoilering in disgrs
and sat there hour after hour Moor
come and he was so hungry he said h
could have gnawed the bark oren tn
limb he was setting OF To make mat
ters worse he seen Sary come o1lr Il
the yard and she rung the dinner bell
Eb waved his arms and yelled but sh
never heard him. Being as Eb live
three quarters of a mile from the mai
J road nobody passing would hear hin
/ either. A awful long afternoon 10 E
! passed and the shades Of twilight bezi,
= TO deepen. but still the bull moved arount
] under the tree occasionally setting u,
= a beilering and paving the earth when
} ever Il happened to git q glimpse Of tha
red shirt Up in the tree.
Z By this time Eb was most sts-vei
= and exoSted. aAd when he contemplate
7 having TO remain in the tree al night
the thought almost made him sick 70 hi