River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-09
BRAIN and Drawn
When Human intelligence Tri-
umphed Over Brute Force.
Lesson Is Drawn From an Interesting
Battle of Wits Between Ohioan
and a Great Big Bull.

One of those unfortunate things that
1t would have been interesting to see,
as long as it had to happen anyway,
Is reported by the Hicksville Tribune,
which relates a rather disconcerting
experience which recently befell Joe
Spire, the prominent man of peace Of
Farmer township. Mr.. Spire, who is
great lover of nature in all her variant
moods, was enjoying a delightful day
afield, trudging musingly along with
nothing further from his mind than
huge and vOracious bulls, when sud-
denly, emerging from a spinney upon
fallOw mOOrland, or haugh, he sud-
denly and quite against his will found
himself face to face with one of these
vast creatures.
Mr.. Spire, always a quick thinker,
formulated his plan of attack at once,
and without the loss of an instant was
in full strategic retreat, dOuble-Quick-
ing as lover of nature never double
Quicked before in a Decline for an ap-
parently stout and dependable barbed
wire fence at no great distance as
distances are measured under normal
conditions. Meanwhile our bull, also
a quick thinker, had formulated his
plan also, and, swiftly putting it into
effect, almost Immediately head
downed, tai1-upped, snorted, paved,
beloved and was in full cry.
It was wonderfu4 race, human in
telligence against brute strength, and,
as is customary in such cases, human
intelligence won, slipping desperately
through the barbed wire entanglements
just as brute strengths hot breath be-
gan to make itself felt on his rear
breadth. Lulled to a false sense of
security by the position of the fence,
Mr.. Spire now began to resume his
pleasant communion with nature when
of a sudden our bull, smarting under
his apparent defeat and resolving not
to be cheated Of his prey so easily, took
up the trail again and shot bodily
through the slender wire barrier as
if it had not been there at all. Even
SO, Mr.. Spire did not lose his presence
of mind for one moment, but cleverly
slipped back through the fence at a
point a few rods above the gap made
by it's grim pursuer, who, prOfting by
his recent experience, did not pause
at all this time, but Numbered through
the entanglements, his cruel fangs
never more than three feet to rear
ward of our hero's natty hunting trOu-
serS.
And thus the strange battle of brain
against Drawn continued indefinitely,
as it began to seem to Mr.. Spire, brain
slipping through the fence and Drawn
crashing through behind him until at
last brain had worked his way to
stOuter and nontransparent barrier at
the extreme edge of the mOOrland, or
haugh, and, throwing all his remaining
energies into one last frantic effort,
clambered over just in time to escape
the eager and slavering jaws Of our
colossal beast, who now in very truth
was foiled completely.
We seldom have noted so striking an
illustration of the ultimate superiority
Of human intelligence to brute force,
although, as Mr.. Spire laughingly re-
marked when our accredited represent
ative arrived on the scene, the ulti-
mate sometimes seems an unconsciOn-
ably long time coming.-Ohio State
Journal.