The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
EB STONES T'ER-
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Twas Eb's Own Bull but # He Had. n't CIOmb a Trss Mighty Quick We Would Have a FunsTaI
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Eb Stone, who lives on a farm which he has been trying to lift the mortgage off of for 10, these many years, two miles west of Bingviile, had e curious experience which lasted all day and all night about the middle of this week, and which he will 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. ED and the bull have always got along pretty we'll together in the past because ED never tormented the critter any That bull hates the color of red worse than cat hates soap, and 1t 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 to see if there was any mall in the F. O. for him (there wasn't) he noticed a breach in the fence of the pasture where the bull was, so next morning he decided he would go acrost the pasture to repair the fence It was hot morn ing so Eb he slipped of his gingham shirt before he started, leaving on his red wool undershirt, and attired in this wise he started to walk acrost the pas ture never thinking about how the bull hated red so. When Eb started acrosr the bull was grazing at 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 it down with it's head and up with it's tail and start ed for Eb like locomotive and beller- in as loud as it could beller,
 Then 1t dawned on Eb that he had went and made a 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 tne same distance to the fence on fine other sides of the pasture, and for a mint ED said his hair rig right up on end. Eb aint much of a foot racer any how, being as he is crippled up some with rheumatiz. We'll, as ED stood there paralyzed with fear his eye fell on a big ellnm 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. 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 IS 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 pickering 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 madder who walked around the tree looking up and tossing it's horns and bellering as nasty as it could.
 Finally ED begin to holler for help as loud as he could holler, then suddintly he happened to think that there was no one at home but his wife Sary, who is as deaf as a post and can't hear thunder. so then Eb stopped hollering in disgust and sat 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 mile from the main road nobody passing would hear him either. A awful long afternoon to Eb passed and the shades of twilight begin to deepen, but still the bull moved around under the tree occasionally setting up a pickering and paving the earth when ever it 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 having to remain in the tree all night, the thought almost made him sick to his