The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-01-27
FATE AND 4 COW,
BY N. QUAD.
fCopyright. 1909. By American Press Assoc
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dered and ungainly. He was reticent
and undemonstrative. and society knew
him not ut all Miss Deborah Day Of
the same town had reached the age Of
forty-6ve. She was plain Of face and
frigid Of attitude. and her charms were
missing. Cupid had sized up the pros
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 Il radius Of hundred miles.
would have been making ready to sing.
Miss Day walked forth In q meadow to
gather few daisies. 1t was not a ro-
mantle feeling that took Her there. She
would have as soon culled onions had
there been any there 10 GULL At the
same hour II singularly happened that
Professor Slocum sought the same
meadow 10 search Of geological speci-
mems to convince his class that this
old earth of ours has seen at least 49,
100000 birthdays come and go. Four
discoveries took place almost stimuli
taneously. and fifth came tagging
on behind. The lady discovered her
daisies. the professor discovered his
pebbles. tho 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 discovery. because she was
enraged over the loss Of horn knock
ed or In some way and because she
had her head down and Der tail up and
was charging the pebble and daisy
gatherers.
Then the fifth discovery showed up.
II was a COW shed twenty rods away
"a 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 IL was proper or not for the
couple 10 clasp hands and make a
wal'bly and fumuituous run for The
shed. They reached IL just In time
for the professor TO find board and
bar the entrance against She COW and
later ON 10 further strengthen il. There
was no doubt about the bovine being
In earnest. She made frantic attempts
10 tear down the shed with her re-
naming horn. aud when she could
not effect entrance she stood on guard
10 keep her victims from coming out.
Darkness suddenly fell.
-i'rofessor Slocum. must leave here
this Instant exclaimed the horrilied
Miss bay.
And so must - was the reply.
III Is not proper
-certalnly not"
II shall be Iaughingstock."
And The same"
Yes: they ought 10 leave the shed
and rush in opposite directors. but
what ~ The COW: She proposed 10
have something TO say about that. Al
the dfst, movement % the temporary
door She uitered bloodeiirdling bei-
low aud made u charge. aud Miss hay
screamed. aud The professor threw up
his hands ID despair
Il cant 90. but you mnst.- said Miss
Day rs the COW quieted down. Pro-
fessor. you must see that you must 90
-yOu must see n
II do see IT, he replied. .,and. while
canno; depart from The shed. ! can
climb ont On top Of IT,"
This be- accomplished by making his
way through zap IN he roof. lie
WIS now In position Of proprieiy. bur
there was the cow again. whe1 she
saw him per.hed np there. SO near aud
yet so far. she tried 10 climb up after
him. aud ~ che end Of two minutes
Miss Day was shrieking for protection.
Down scrambled the professor. aud the
COW took TO running around the shed
10 lind where he had gone.
Could they be severely ceremonious
when II WIS impossible TO see each
other. The professor wisely decided
that they couldn't. aud he reached OUT
and clasned Miss Days hand. She re-
turned the clasp. Then he put his arm
around her 10 protecting way. and
she did not shrink. Then the old cow
made up her mind TO melt the frost
and bring out the turtIrdoves II she
had 10 break her neck 10 do Il. She