The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-01-13
Nv M. QUAD.
Copyright, 1909. by American Press Asso-
citation


Professor Slocum Of the college at
Madison was fifty years Old Oh Il GER
tain date. He was tail and stoop Shout
dered and ungainly. He was reticent
and undenonStrative. and society knew
him not at all. Miss Deborah Day of
the same town had reached the age Of
forty-tive. She was plain Of face and
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 radius of hundred miles.
would have been making ready to sing.
Miss Day walked forth in meadow to
gather few daisies. 1t was not ro-
mantle feeling that took her there. She
would have as soon culled onions had
there been any there to Gull. At the
| sam me hour it singulary 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 49,
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 his
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 discovery. because she was
enraged over the loss Of a horn knock
/ ed off 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 a 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 she'd 1t
was plain that the cow was coming
for business. and You must judge
whether it was proper or not for the
couple TO clasp hands and make a
wabbly and tumultuous run for the
shed. They reached it just in time
for the professor to find a board and
bar the entrance against the cow anG
later on to 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
manning horn. and when she coulC
not effect entrance she stood on guarC
to keep her victims from coming out
Darkness suddenly fell.
professor Slocum. must leave her,
this instant" exclaimed the horrifiee
Miss Day.
And SO must H. was the reply.
ut is not proper
''Certainly not
81 shall be iaughingstock.'
And the same"
Yes; they ought to leave the shet
and rush in opposite directions. bu
what of the COW: She proposed t,
have something to say about that. A
; the first movement of the temporar,
= door she uttered Il bloodcurdling bel
low and made a charge. and Miss Da,
screamed. and the professor threw VI
his hands in despair.
Il can't go. but you must" lid Mis-
Day as the COW quoted down. PRO
fessor. you must see that you must g
: you must see it,"
{ Il do see it," he replied. land. Will
A / cannot depart from the shed. | ca
: climb cut Oh top Of it,
hx,a I, Ii II:
V way through gap in the roof. Fl
5 was now in a position Of propriety. bu
. there was the COW again. When Sh
+ saw him perched up there. so near an
= yet so far, she tried to climb UP ate
= him. and 1t the end of two minute
s Miss Day was Shrieking for protection
Down scrambled he professor. and Ii
e COW took to running around the she
e TO find where he had gone.
r. Could they be severely ceremoniot
II when it was impossible to see eac
g other? The professor wisely decide
i that they couldn't. and he reached ol
T. and clasped Miss Days hand. She r
l. turned the clasp. Then he put his ar
q around her in Il protecting WAY. az
made up her mind to melt the fro
If ard bring out the turtledoves if 81
10 had to break her neck TO DO it. S
"a gave 4 below of warning and retrei
~. ed eight or ten rods and then came
u the side Of the shed like Il runaw
"a locomotive. She hit ii fair and SqUal
,d and two-thirds of it caved i'll like
=, house of sand. In the c;,ving she W
mixed up with beams and boards. a
Or the professor took advantage Of the
,,o easion to tear the door aside and y
~ his companion out into the open. Th
- they ran for the nearest fence.
~, wasn't dignified to fall down three
four times. but they fell. 1t was
~ eminently proper when the fence "
,o' reached and the COW was hard en- tn
trail for the professor to throw NJ
Day over and then make a Scram