The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-05-26
E d T err b u s his
Jersey Co,O

81 don't see why they had to hold
him." commented Eben Baxter.
Furthermore, he's a-goin' to have
a hundred an'-fifty dollar stone put
over her." continued the storekeeper
'Pete's a-workin' on 1t right now.
Four an haf lines of letterin' on
her good p'ints alone, not countin
the Bible text an the here lies an
names an dates. He cert'nly Is
givin' her good recommend. He
reelizes what he done lost"
"He remines me of Ed. Terbush
an his Jersey cow" remarked Wash
ington Hancock. "You all remember
Ed. Terbush. d'know II you re.
member the cow or not. I'd have plum
forgot her If 1t hadn't ben for the
way she favored a secont cousin o
mine in her pers'nal appearance an
few other circumstances connected
with her. She was a consid able OF
a COW, for Jersey stock. If hadn't
had Eds say-so, I'd have thought she
had some buffalo in her an the rest
wild goat an hyena. But Ed stuck
to it she was all-wool Jersey.
THE first time l seen that cow,
Ed was on her back an she was a
buck-jumpin' round the pen at the
rate Of 48 miles an hour. I reckon
she was about month old then. Ed.
undertook to learn her how to drink
milk outen tin bucket Std o. what
yu might. call natures fount, an he'd
straddled her neck to get better
leverage on her, for-gettin' the Tenth
of her laigs an the strength of her
back. ,-.-s.' sS's -~a,ss 4.
Eds Cow Was an Active One.
"He done damned her haid into the
bucket an she thyowed her haid up
right energetic, an that slid Ed mid
ways lords her tail, which was hi'sted
up stiff an bent over at right an
giles two inches from the tassel.
Then she lit out bawlin' an spurtin
skim milk through her nose ever
Jump.
ED, he hung on until she tried to
done if he'd taken a-holt of her ears
an encouraged her. Then he left her
sort o. sidewise, an sudden, an ram
med his haid into the ground like
he was one O. them ostridges with a
passle of Arabs after him."
Il don't see what that's got to do
with Jason Fosters wife's tomb
stun" said Old Man Somarindyk.
Come to think of it, l don't know
as it has," admitted Hancock in
genuously. 81 don't know as it's got
a heap to do with the Rock O. Gibral-
tar, but it had right smart connec-
tion with the brimstun lake in the
remarks Ed made when he'd get his
mouth empty enoi gh. Jest men,
toned the INGREDIENT to show you how
Esmerelda started"
"Who?' exploded Old Man Somarin-
dyk.
Eds jersey" explained Hancock,
blandly. Eds wife named her Es-
merelda. Don't asst me why, becus
| don't know. All i can tell you is
that she learned to drink skim milk
an eat lace waists inside of week
from the time she rid, Ed around the
pen. Where you goin,' Uncle?"
Old man Somarindyk stalked indig-
nantly out of the store, deigning no
reply
She Ate Bargain Waists.
81 didn't aim to say they fed hel
on lace waists Hancock told the
circle. 1.-The waist I was talkin'
about was one that Eds wife had
bought in st. Joe for $3.50, marked
down from 1888, ercount of 1t bein'
mussed up some.
Eds wife allowed she cd wash II
out for four-an' three-quarter cents
wuth of soap an starch, an clear
five dollars an fifty-nine an a quar-
ter cents ON the deal, an she was
too good a business woman to let
sech a chance 60 by.
"She done washed It an hung It
out on the line to dry an she hadn't
merelda came along an ct up all the
profit. When Eds wife seen her, she
was standin' with her laigs spraddled
out an her eyes rolled up an starch
dribbin' out o. one side Of her mouth
an a part of the yoke a-hangin' out
Of the other side, Esr"erelda was not
Eds wife,
THAT was jest the beginning I'd
hate to mention all the things Esmer-
edo ct off the line, first an last.
There wasn't no fence could keep
her out an IL you tied her, she'd
most likely eat the rope. She found
cred herself two or three times an
Ed had to set up nights nursin'
her, besides payin' out for. veter-
NARY.
ED sawed her horns off an under
took to milk her. First off, she kick
ed him galleywest an then she
wouldn't give down. The best he
could get was about ha'f a pint O.
thin liquid that you might have call
ed milk IL you wanted to. That's
what I understood Ed to say at the
time. He was real worked up about
Esmeralda.
He'd traded her to a neighbor that
weighed two hundred to his hundred
an thirty-eight an they'd had ar
gument about It that ended by Ed
takin' Lsmerelda back and gettin'
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