Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-28

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goat was disappearing down the road.
The colored woman was Aunt Tilda,
the cook, and the goat was a goat I'M
known.
"Oh, Miss Ruth" gasped the cook
as she fell on the grass.
For the lands sake. Tilda, but
what is it?"
at was a grissly bar, Miss Ruth,
and he was gwine eat me up!"
':Tilda!"
81 declar' to goodness it was!"
81 saw black goat fleeing down the
road"
wall, mebbe it was a goat, but it is
the same thing as grissly bar. Lem
me git up to de veranda an I'll tell
you all about it. Now, den, 1 went
ober to Morton's didn't II"
yes"
ITO see Hammer, de cook?''
"Yes"
'Well, saw her. She was in good
speerits. She axed me when you was
gwine to git married"
''The impudent thing!"
Oats zactly what l said to her.
She said she wasn't, but she had had a
dream dat you was gwine to fall in
She said dat sunthin' wild horns on
was gwine to bring it about. And
goats have horns, and dar you ami"
60 to your kitchen!"
Two hours later Miss Ruth Parsons
took a little saunter up the highway
She had not progressed over ten rods
when she heard a snort and saw thai
black goat bearing down upon her
| She had just got inside the gate an6
swung it to when the horns of the
goat struck it. She had screamed
once or twice en- route, and the cool
was on the veranda.
"Befo' de Lawd, but dar's de sunthin
wild horns dat de Hammer woman
dreamed of"
At ten o'clock next forenoon Mis-
Ruth had a caller. He was a youni
man who gave his name as Charlie.
Ashley, and he explained his erran'
by saying:
81 am at my sisters, eight mile
away, on my school vacation. She /
rather eccentric about pets, and has
big black goat which is nuisance
He broke the rope with which he wa
tied the other day and disappeared
and I am looking for him. We hay
heard that he was seen this far ava
yesterday"
eyes, he was here" was the reply
He wanted to kill me, but 1 was fol
tunate enough to escape"
81 am sorry if he annoyed you"
'I was going to have him shot il h
hung around here"
VERY proper OF course, you don
know which way -ha wont2'
'T was too frightened to take nj
hce."
The conversation began at the We
anda steps and ended at the gat
where the young man had his aut
waiting. With the remark that
would go on a mile or two further, b
raised his hat and stepped outside til
gate, and there was the goat! He ha
been in ambush. He came for tn
gate head down and heels up, an
snorting like a grampus at low waite
Mr.. Ashley exclaimed, Thunder!
and leaped into his machine.
Miss Ruth yelled "Oh, my!" and ra
for the veranda.
By all the rules Of logic this got
ought to have sprung into the aut
after the young man, but he did not
ing of the sort. He took after til
f girl instead, and half way to the houK
she went down under his catapult.
Mr.. Ashley was not a man to bes
/, a retreat in the face of the enem
! but just the man to rush to the rescu
: of forlorn damsel. He rushed. H
l l didn't have gun handy in his hi
: pocket, and so the goat had the adva
: tage. He turned from the prostrat
$ maiden and met the hero half way.
1t was bad for the hero. A ton
= brick struck him in the solar pleXu
and after a grunt and a gasp he r
t tired to the land of nothing and n
r body. When he recovered consciou
t ness he was lying at the foot Of tt
g steps, whittier he had been dragged /
h Miss Ruth and the cook.
g II hope the goat didn't do you ar
e serious injury" he said.
r mo, not serious" replied the gil
+ "Are you much hurt?'
d Only the breath knocked out
!, !, me for the time being. Do you happe
IS to have a firearm in the house?"
n n 81 have a revolver, but no ca
r tridges for it."
It Then I will wait to get him hon
to kill him. Sorry to have brougl
= about this annoyance"
But it jest had to be brung about
answered the cook.
Mr.. Ashley called three days
: The goat had been shot.
AS Tilda put it when be Went
u after a long call:
l. Nov, honey, you hain't got
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