The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-05-07
EXERCISING IN THE RIVER

L. B. billiard and family have NOV
ed down between the rivers, and
when they were getting located on
the place, Mr.. billiard led the Jersey
Cow to the river to drink. The calf
went along with Lee or with it's
mother or both, and as the cow be-
gan to drink it occurred to Mr. Dill
lard that calf is little chump and
generally jumps into water when it's
mother drinks and he made a move
to prevent this but calfie beat him
to it. In it went, all over and it's
little tail stuck up like periscope
r(we reckon) to indicate which way it
was taking in it's observations. 1t
learned to swim right away and came
to the surface and went down stream
triumphant. Mr.. billiard projected
parallel line along the bank dry shod,
lodging around clumps of brush and
making vain maneuvers from open
ings in the willows. He considered
| jumping in, but remembered that if
he did this, he too would be wet and
obliged to swim, so he surveyed the
stream for a rifle where he might
wade it. There did not seem to be
any rifles working near there, and
F., he figured that if he just had lasso
he could take few throws at the
calf, but as there was no lasso at
hand / e gave that up like he did the
swimming and the wading on rifles
that were not. While all this was
going on the COW was dividing her
time between nipping grass and
weeping for her offspring.
Mr.. billiard formed design of
catching the calf and helping it up
the bank at any place that it came
ashore, wringing it out like a quilt
and taking it home a sadder but
weter calf. But the blamed thing
NEGLECTED to come ashore. Lee got
nervous. What if he should go back
home without that calf and be twit-
ted about Thompson's colt at the
Missouri river
He looked down the stream some
distance and there was an Indian
studying the situation. The Indian
tdisrobed and stoically took dip.
When the calf came along he put his
arm about it and swan ashore where
Mr.. billiard met them with open arms.
The bank was steep and the calf was
slick, and there was vigorous pulling
and boosting, but every time the
calfie was boosted up it slipped back
oh SC willingly.
When a white man is at his wits
end he looks around, and Lee did
this. On the opposite bank he be-
held squaw very earnestly disrob-
} ing. She plunged into the water
and swan nimbly across and then
all boosted on the. calf, Lee getting
wet in the process. BY this time the
calf was getting limp and declined
to cooperate. The loss of common
calf is bad enough, but losing a Jer-
sey is another matter. Again Lee
looked around. This time he 90
served that the opposite bank of the
er was an easy slope, and lie di-
rected his friends to convey it across
the river (Thompson's colt AGAIN.
and it was placed on dry land once
, more, a perfectly good calf. The
Indian woman dressed while her hus-
band held the calf, and then he
dressed while his wife held it. Mr.
billiard politely waiting on his own
side of the river.
Then the four went up the river
the Indians and the calf on one side
and Mr.. billiard on the other. When
they reached the ford the Indian car
ried the calf across the river and re-
stored it to it's delighted owner and
; said he thought three and a half
would be right. Mr.. billiard paid
E the bill and charged 1t to the ac-
count of wages on the dairy herd.