Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-02-10
fkIE AND A COW.
d. N. nuAn.


Professor sIocum OF the college nc |
Madison was 6fty years old on GER
tain date. He was tall and stoOp shout
dered and ungainIy. he was reticent |
and undemOnstrative, and society knew
him NOT at al. Miss Deborah Day Of |
the same town had reached the age OF |
forty-nye. She was plain Of face and |
frigid Of attitude. and her charms were |
missing. Cupid hnd sized mp the pro-
fessor and condemned him to bachelor
hood. He had done the sara with Miss
Deborah and left her an old maid.
One evening, just at shutdown, when
the whippooFwiIls. had there been any
within a radius OF a hundred miles.
would have been making ready to sing,
Miss Day walked forth In meadow TO
gather q few daisies. II was not q ro-
mantle feeling that took Der there. She
would have az soon culled onions had
there been any there to Gull. At the
same hour 1t singularly happened that
Professor Slocum sought the same
meadow in search Of geological speci-
mems to convince bis class that this
Old earth Of ours has seen az least 49,
OO00O0 birthdays come and 60. Four
discoveries took place almost stimuli
taneOusly, and q nfth came tagging
on behind. The lady discovered her
daisies. the professor discovered his
pebbles, the two people discovered each
other, and together they discovered q
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 horn knock
ed or IN some way and because she
had her head down and her tail up and
was charging the pebble and daisy
gafhereFs.
Then the 18th discovery showed up.
Il was a COW shed twenty rods away
IA rough affair that had once seen
better days. The meadow was retired.
and the shed was more 50. There was
no hope OF reaching the fence, but
there was OF reaching the shed. II
was plain that the COW was coming
for business. and you must Judge
| whether II was proper or not for the
| couple to clasp hands and make a
wabbly and tumuItuous run for the
shed. They reached II just In time
for the professor to ind board and
bar the entrance against the COW and
later on to further strengthen 1t. There
was no doubt about the bovine being
IN earnest. She made frantic attempts
| to tear down the shed with her re-
manning born. and when she could
not effect entrance she stood on guard
to keep her victims from coming out.
Darkness suddenly fell.
Professor Slocum, must leave here
this instantw exclaimed the horri6ed
Miss Day.
''And 80 must l." was the reply.
cit il not proper"
Certainly not"
81 shall be a laughingstock."
"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 Grst movement OF the temporary
door she uttered a bloodcurdllng BEL
low and made q charge. aud Miss Day
screamed. and the professor threw up
his hands in despair.
~ can't go. but you must" said Miss
Day AZ the COW quieted down. -Pro'
lessor. you must see that you must go
you must zee IT,"
Il do see it." be replied. land. while
I cannot depart from the shed. / can
climb ont on top Of e."
This be accomplished by making his
way through gap 10 the roof. de
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 to climb up afteI
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 ind where he had gone.
Could they be severely ceremoniouE
when 1t was impossible TO see eact
other? The professor wisely decided
3 that they couldn't, and be reached oul
5 and clasped Miss Days hand She re
: turned the clasp. Then he put his arm
a around her In a protecting way. ant
, she did not shrink. Then the old COW
made up her mind TO melt the fros
and bring out the turtledoves IL sh'
had to break her neck to do 1t. Sh'
gave a below of warning and retreat
ed eight or ten rods and then came fo
the side Of the shed like a runa wa!
locomotive. She bit Il fair and square
y and two-thirds of 1t caYed In like |
house OF sand. In the cavIng she wal
mixed up with beams and boards. an'
the professor took advantage Of the &C
caslon TO tear the door aside and pull
bis companion out into the open. The
g they ran for the nearest fence. !
wasn't dignifed to fall down three o
i four times. but they fell. 1t WASH
4 eminently proper when the fence wa
reached and the COW was hard on thei
. trail for the professor to throw Mis-
Day over and then make q scramble
himself. but that's the way It wa
worked. Then as soon as the man 4