The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-07
Treed!
That's What 0ckurd to Eb. Stone
Who Was Chast by a Bull
TurribIe Experients Which
Will liant Him Forever

Eb Stone who lives on a farm he has
been trying to lift the mortgage off of
for 10, these many years, two miles west
of Bingville, had a curious experience
which lasted all day and all night about
the middle of this week and which he will
remember with horror and loathing
probably as long as he Ives.
Eb has a big red bull which he turned
out in a pasture by itself last week.
Eb and the bull have always got along
together pretty we'll in the past because
Eb never tormented the critter any. The
bull hates the color of red worse than
cat hates soap, and it was this dislike
for red on the part of the bull that got
E.b into trouble.
On last Thursday ev'g when Eb was
returning home from Bingville where
he had been to see if there was any
mail in the P. o. for him (there WASN'T
he noticed a breach in the fence of the
pasture where the bull was, SO next
morning he decided he would go acrost
the pasture to repair the fence. 1t was
hot morning, so Eb slipped off his ging-
ham shirt before he started, leaving on
his red wool undershirt, and attired in
this wise he started to walk acrost the
pasture, never thinking about how the
bull hated red so.
When Eb started acrost the bull was
grazing on one side of the pasture and
Eb got most half way acrost before the
bull happened to look up and see him.
Soon as it got glimpse of that red
shirt it down with its head and up with
its tail and started for Eb like a loco
motive and be1lerin as loud as it could
be1ler
Then it dawned on Eb that he had
went and made a mistake when he took
off his overshirt He looked back the
way he had came, but he realized that
before he could reach the fence the bull
would ketch him. 1t was also about the
same distance to the fence on the other
side Of the pasture, and for a mint Eb
sed his hair riz right up on end. Eb
amt much of foot racer, anyhow, be-
matiz. Well as Eb stood there par
alyzed with fear his eye fell upon big
ellum tree which stood alone in the mid
die of the pasture, so he dug out for
that tree jest as hard as he could lick
it. Eb sed he didn't get there more
than two rods ahead of that bull and
that the lowest limb of the tree was at
least ca1kilashion IS foot from the
ground He says he don't know how
he done it, but he jumped clean up into
the air until he got holt of the lower
limb and pulled h1sSelt into the tree
jest as the bull rushed under him bel
lering and paving up the ground
Eb set there and rested until he got
his breth, then he swore hisself outen
breth again in calling the bull every
thing he could lay his tongue to. This
only seemed to make the bull madden
and madden, who walked around the
tree lol1ing up and tossing its horns
and bellering as nasty as it could.
Finally Eb began to boiler for help
as loud as he could holler, then sudden
ly he happened to think that there was
no one at home but his wife Sary, who
is as deaf as post and can't hear thun-
der, so then Eb stopped hollering in dis
gust, and sat there hour after hour
Noon came and he was so hungry he
sed he could have gnawed the bark
often the limb he was setting on. To
make matters worse he seen Sary come
out in the yard and she rung the din
ner bell. Eb waved his arms and yelled
but she never herd him. Being as Eb
lives three-quarters of mile from the
main road, nobody passing would hear
him either. A awful long afternoon to