The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-09
FLUNG!
Il Watkins Gets . Awful Surprise
While Spring Flowing & Might
Of Been Kid as q Result II Kind
y PnvIdsncs Hadn't InisrfsaIsd

IL Watkins, one Of our most re-
speckted citizens, had Q thrilling eek
sperients last Monday morning, which
it gives Il pain to recall every time
he thinks of Il and 1t was only by the
intervenshion of a kindly providence,
as you might say, that we are now
writing about Izze's servival insted of
writing his obituary notise.
Last week IL made up his mind he
would plow the hillside pastchure back
OF his place and plant it in corn and
so he started in blowing Monday
morning bright and early just about
daylight with his 2 oxes, Barney &
Berry.
As everybody knows, Izze's hillside
pastchure is probly one of the stoniest
pieces of ground in this naborhood. IL
says that in the past he has nearly
broke his back picking up stones often
that pastchure and Juggling them to the
stone fence which surrounds It. He
says no matter how many stones he
Tugs often the pastchure one year,
there seems to be just as many there
the next year and that he believes that
the stones on that pastehufe must
sprowt and grow there.
Well, IL had plowed eupple of fur
rows around the pastchure and was
coming down the hill on the east side
in the third furrow when the point OF
the pIow went in under a stone ledge
which cropped out and the oxes
stopped. Instead of sliding the plow
over the ledge like he ort to of done,
IL got mad at the oxen and prodded
both of them with his OK goad. The
oxes who was nearly asleep woke 10
with a start and nearly jumped outen
the yoke. This run the plow point
still further under the ledge and
brung the plow handles forward with
a jerk. IL, who was hanging onto the
pillow handles like grim death, was
throwed high into the air and come
down right betwixt the oxes with one
leg run through the yoke,
This frightened the brutes to such
eckstent that they run off down that
hill with their tails switching the air
and bellering like everything, banging
the plow along over the ground be-
hind them.
What was IL doing all this time you
asks IL was praying to be saved from
a ignominious death--that's what he
was doing. The oxes had shook him
outen the yoke all but one foot which
remained fast and as a result IL wa,
drug along between the kritters while
the tongue banged him on the he'd and
body until he nearly lost conscious
ness, At the bottom of the hill the
oxes run into the stone fence and
stopped while IL unsnarled hisself and
set down on the stone fence, to rest
after what he had went through. IL
has 2 or bumps on his he'd as big as
a hens egg and his ankle was so
sprained that he is limping yet
After he had recovered suffishiently
IL unhitched the oxes and driv them to
the COW stable and after he got them
inside he shut the door and give them
both a good thrashing with big, black
snake whip. IL thrashed the oxes and
cussed them until he was outen
breth. IL is a man of great ackon-
plishments-he can make a beautiful
prayer one minute and the next min
ute he can cuss OK until a fly
wouldn't light on it.
IL has desided that he wont pillow
the pastchure back of his house and
plant it in corn this season