The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-12-09
FATE AND A COW.
a. N. QUAD.
Copyright, 1908. BY American Press Assoc
ciationl

frigId Of attitude, and her charms were
missing Cupid had sized up the pro-
fessor and condemned him to bachelor
hood. He had done the same with Miss
Deborah and left her an old maid.
One evening, Just at shutdown, when
the whippoorwills, had there been any
within a radius Of hundred miles,
would have been making ready to sing,
Miss Day walked forth IN meadow to
gather few daisies. 1t was not a ro-
mantle feeling that took her there. She
would have as soon culIed onions had
there been any there 70 Gull AT the
same hour it singularly happened that
Professor Slocum sought the same
meadow in search Of geological speci-
mems to convince his class that this
old earth Of ours has seen at least 15,-
100000 birthdays come and go. -Four
discoveries took place almost stimuli
taneously, and a fifth came tagging
on behind. The lady discovered her
daisies. The professor discovered bis
pebbles, the two people discovered each
other. and together they discovered a
cow. A COW may be simply an ami
mated object on the landscape. or she
may be a discovery, because she was
enraged over the loss Of a horn knock
ed OF in some way and because she
had her head down and her tail up and
was charging the pebble and daisy
gatherers.
Then the fifth discovery showed up.
1t was q COW shed twenty rods away
"a rough affair that had once seen
better days The meadow was retired,
and the shed was more so. There was
no hope Of reaching the fence, but
there was Of reaching the shed. It
was plain that the COW was coming
for business, and you must judge
whether 1t was proper or not for the
couple to clasp hands and make a
wabbly and tumultu0us run for the
shed. They reached II Just IN time
for the professor TO find d board aud
bar the entrance against the COW and
later on 20 further strengthen It. There
was no doubt about the bovine being
IN earnest She made frantic attempts
to tear down the shed with her re-
naming horn, and when she could
not effect entrance she stood on guard
to keep her victims from coming out.
Darkness suddenly fell
Professor Slocnm | must leave here
this instant! exclaimed the Mortified
Miss Day.
"And 50 must Il" was the reply.
TT is not proper"
"Certainly not
Il shall be Iaughingstock.s
"And the same
Yes; they ought to leave the shed
and rush IN opposite directions, but
what Of the COW? she proposed to
have something to say about that. At
the first movement Of the temporary
door she uttered a bloodcnrdling bel
low and made charge, and Miss Day
screamed, and the professor threw up
his hands in despair.
II can't 20. but you must said Miss
Day as the cow quieted down. Pro-
fessor, you must see that you must so
you must see itv'
" do see I'll, be replied, and, while
/ cannot depart from the shed, can
climb out on top of IT,
This he accomplished BY making bis
way through gap iii the roof He
was now in a position Of propriety, but
there was the COW again. When she
saw him perched up there. so near and
yet so far, she tried 70 climb up after
him, and at the end Of two minutes
Miss Day was shrieking for protection.
Down scrambled the professor, and the
COW took to running around the shed
to find where he had gone.
Could they be severely ceremonious
when 1t was impossible to see each
other? The professor wisely decided
that they couldn't. and he reached out
and clasped Miss Days hand. She re-
turned the clasp. Then he put his arm
around her Ia a protecting way, and
she did not shrink Then the old COW
made up her mind to melt the frost
and bring out the turtledoves IL she
had to break her neck to do IL She
gave below of warning and retreat
ed eight or ten rods and then came for
the side Of the shed like a runaway
locomotive She hit 1t fair and square,
and two-thirds Of it cayed In like
house Of sand. IN the caving she was
mixed up with beams and boards, and
the professor took advantage Of the oc-
casion to tear the door aside and pull
his companion out into the open. Then
they ran for the nearest fence. 1t
wasn't dignifed to fall down three or
four times, but they fell. II wasn't
eminently proper when the fence was
reached and the cow was hard on their
trail for the professor to throw Miss
Day over and then make scramble
himself, but that's the way ii was
worked. Then ais soon as the man in
the case could get his breath he real
lied the Inevitable. They we're both
tattered and fretted. They had to-
gether passed through peril by flood
and ERE (and cow, and romance had
come to their hearts at last
Miss Day, / have loved you from
the first,' announced the professor as
be took her hand,
And IL she replied after gasping
for breath.
or course she had, too, and of course
that settled it then and there The old
cow looked through the rails at them,
heard the cooling Of the doves and with
snort Of disgust turned tail and walk
cd away. And vet she had made over
two human beings to be like the aver
age.