The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-11
FATE AND A
COW
BY M. QUAD
Copyright, 1918. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
BY M. QUAD

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tain date. He was tall and stoop
shouldered and ungainly. He was ret
icent and undemonstrative, and socle-
ty knew him not at all. Miss Deborah
Day of the same town had reached the
age of fortyfive. She was plain or
face and frigid of attitude. and her
charms were missing.
1t was one Sunday In church that
fate brought the old bach and the old
maid together in the same pew, and
they sang from the same hymn book.
Fate, through a mutual acquaintance,
introduced them after the sermon.
few evenings later the professor call
ed The talk was Of philosophy. He
called again, and they talked of theoso-
ply. He made third call, and the age
of the world was under discussion for
an hour. After that 1t was for the
COW to do her part.
One evening, just at shutdown, Miss
Day walked forth in a meadow to
gather a few daisies. At the same
hour it singularly happened that Pro
fessor Slocum sought the same mead
ow in search of geological specimens.
The lady discovered her daisies, the
professor discovered his pebbles. the
two people discovered each other, and
together they discovered cow.
COW may be simply an animated object
on the landscape or she may be dis
covery because she Is enraged over
the loss of horn knocked off in some
way and because she has her head
down and her tail up and is charging
the pebbles and daisy gatherers.
Then the fifth discovery showed up.
1t was a COW shed twenty rods away.
rough affair that had seen bet
ter days. The meadow was retired,
and the shed was more so. They
reached it just in time for the pro-
fessor to find a board and bar the en-
) trance against the cow and later on to
, further strengthen it. There was no
doubt about the bovine being in ear
nest She made frantic efforts to tear
down the shed with her remaining
, horn and when she could not effect
an entrance she stood on guard to keep
her victims from coming out. Dark
ness suddenly fell, and then the per-
turbed couple suddenly realized their
situation
Professor Slocum, / must leave here
, this Instant" exclaimed the Mortified
, Miss Day
And so must I!'' was the reply.
at is not proper!'
Certainly not!''
l 81 shall be a laughingstockw
"And l the samer'
r 81 can't go, but you mustv said Miss
Day as the COW quieted down. PRO
lessor. you must see that you must go
you must see it,
81 do see it," he replied, land, while
i cannot depart from the shed, can
climb on the top of it,
: This he accomplished by making his
t way through a gap in the roof. He
q was now in position of propriety.
II but there was the COW again. When
she saw him perched up there, so near
> and yet so far. she tried to climb up
after him, and at the end Of two min
utes Miss Day was shrieking for pro
lection. Down scrambled the pro
), fessor, and the COW took to running
around the shed to find where he
: had disappeared. The interior of the
shed had now become SO dark that
: nothing could be seen. In trying tc
/ strengthen the door some more the pro
! fessor fell down and rolled over. In
f trying to go to his assistance Miss Day
r suddenly found herself sprawling.
Can person maintain frigidnes
when surrounded by a COW shed, with
mad COW battering away at the door
Can a person be stilted after rolling II
the straw and dirt? Can he or she b.
> severely ceremonious when it Is Inn
:, possible to see each other? The pro
Il fessor wisely decided that they coul'
) not, and he reached out and claspe'
o Miss Days hand. She returned tn
{ clasp. Then he put his arm around he
5, in protecting way, and she did no
IS shrink. Then the old cow made III
q her mind to melt the frost and brin
. out the turtledoves if she had t.
break her neck to do it. She gave
D below of warning and retreated sgh
or ten rods and then came for the sid
a of the shed like runaway locomotive
She hit it fair and square, and two
= thirds Of 1t caved in like house o
II sand. In the caving she was mixed u
81 with beams and boards, and the pre-
s. fessor took advantage of the occasio
If to tear the door aside and then pu
4 his companion out into the open. The
g they ran for the nearest fence.
is wasn't dignified to fall down three Q
four times, but they fell. 1t WASH
:. eminently proper, when the fence wa
. reached and the COW was hard ON the
trail. for the professor to throw Mis-
l. Day over and then take a scrambl
himself. but that's the way 1t wa
y worked. Then as soon as the man
IL the case could get his breath he r.
lie allied the inevitable. They were bot
y tattered and frizzled. They had togetl
ID er passed through peril by food an
,r fire land cow. and romance had con
m to their hearts at last.
:. Miss Day, | have loved you fro