Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-16
eOneHOrnedCOW

Sh~ wv AA particular LuhN tue uedCOu
always treated with the utmost ten.
derness and that his wife, per contra,
always thirsted to kill on the spot.
This was one horned COW belonging
TO the Widow Glenn, in the village. At
some stage in her COW career some one
had knocked her right horn of in
treating her as trespasser. The dea-
cons wife wanted to main or kill that
COW because the bovine had but the
one horn and because she belonged to
widow that had once wondered how
the deacon could possibly stand 1t to
| live with such a wife. II thus came
about that there were mornings when
the one horned COW came home with a
limp and detected attitude and other
mornings when she came home with
head and tail in the air and believing
that life was worth the living. 1t all
depended on whether the deacon or his
wife got mp first and found her tres.
passing.
The one horned COW had been what
might be called a fixture for two years
before the deacon's wife died. The
conduct Of the COW and the deacon's
wife had divided the sentiment Of the
community. There were the COW par
ty and the anti-cow party, and both of
them were provided with powerful ar
guments to sustain their positions. The
wife was several days In dying. When
she had given directions about all 9th
er things, even to having the barrel Of
soft soap moved to a shady spot, she
said to her husband:
And now. Job. want to tails about
that one horned cow ! hoped to live
long enough to kill her. but Provi-
dence has ordered otherwise. go,
and she stays, but ! want you to prom
Use to make 1t hot for her. Knock on
her other horn. Break her neck. Spare
her not. Have no further mercy on
her because she Is the COW Of wild.
ow. can't die easy unless you prom
Use me. You viii probably find her in
the corn1eld the day Of my funeral.
Don't mind me. but get out and 60 for
the COW. Chase her ten times around
the lot and break both her hind legs
1t was against the grain, but the
deacon wiped the tears from his eyes
and promised, and it Is due him to say
that for month after the funeral he
did bis best to carry out the promises
He didn't find the COW trespasslng
every morning when he turned out Of
bed. She put In some Of her nights
elsewhere. When he did find her he
dubbed and stoned and raised bumps
and Jumps on various parts Of her
body. There came a day, however
when he let up on this. The one horn
cd COW looked at him so mournfully
and reproachfully that he couldn't
throw another rock She seemed TO
beg and appeal to him to give her
show, and he simply pulled up tail
cornstalk by the roots and used II as
CAD to drive her to the highway. For
the next two months the one horned
COW lived on the fat Of the land and
exulted over other cows with more
horns. Then Deacon Henderson found
himself in a quandary between his
dead wife and the living COW. He had
made certain promises to a dying wo-
man. He had failed to break that
cows neck. Instead Of so doing he
was treating her with all love and
gentleness. This fact began to worry
the good man. He grew thin over II,
and he was yet undecided when the
minister Of his church called one aft
ernoon. Here was the opportunity to
unburden himself, and It was taken
advantage OF. The minister heard him
through without a word and then
said:
II am surprised that Sister Hender-
son carried such feeling to the grave
with her. wish you had not prom
iscd what you did. and yet II would be
unnatural for you to carry out those
promises. You have probably tried to
break that cows neck3"
''For three or four weeks l tried my
best" was the answer.
you didn't even succeed in knock.
ing the other horn offP'
mo. It's there yet"
Sand you broke none OF her legsT'
''Not a leg"
''Well. then. you have tried and fan
cd, II Is not your fault that you have
failed, but you had better stop right
there. Something is owing to cows as
well as to the departed. On the other
hand. the Widow Glenn. knowing that
her one horned COW Is a botheratiOn
and damage to you. has no right to
let her run at large and to be defiant
about Il, Neither can she reasonably
expect that you viii continue to treat
her animal with the mercy and tender
ness you do"
But there ought to be some way
out OF It." said the deacon.
Yes, there ought. Suppose You were
to call on the widow and talk things
over In a friendly way"
But she might turn me outdoors"
Il win see her first. think you win
ind her gentle and amiable. Yes. am
sure You will"
A month later the deacon called The
one horned cow was discussed from /
the tip OF her one horn to the tip OF /
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