Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-14

forming her ideas of what she was
going to do on the way home at night
Again she picked quarrels with her
grazing companions. Eulalie never
picked a quarrel that she wasn't sure
OF winning. Her favorite method was
to back an opponent into q barb wire
fence. where there was no escape, and
ducking horns was little less painful
than trying to push the fence over
The pasture was common property
md the COWS which occupied it be-
longed 10 other farmers. When there
was a row in the pasture somebody was
sure to be driving by and report to
the owner of one of the injured parties.
When I was summoned from school to
come out and make Eulalie behave.
1t was usually just before supper
that / went forth to bring our little
pet back home. One would think that
a COW which had run her keeper ragged
on the way to pasture, and engaged
in half O dozen combats during the
day, would be content to come home
at leisurely pace. But not Eulalie.
AS soon IS the bars we're down, she
would set off at what seemed to be
an easy jog trot, but which forced me
to exert my best speed to- keep up.
There were, thank heaven, no motors
to bother with then, but there were
plenty of farm wagons and buckboardS
/ on the read. Eulalie never failed to
| dash in front of these and frighten
/ the horses, and my father was con-
stantly pestered by people who insiste
j that he pay for spilled loads of hay
! or foundered animals. The financial
aspect of Eulalie was out Of my de-
partment but when SIS or $40 had been
paid out for damages ] was none too
popular around the old homestead for
! week or two.
! After two seasons as impresario of
! this temperamental creature, I decided
/ that it would be fine thing to secure
the services of dog in handling her.
After looking around the countryside,
! 1 found 9. sheep dog of intelligence and
ambition, and persuaded my father to
buy him For day or two Eulalie
was impressed by the agility OF the
brute, who was faster than she was
and could always get ahead of her and
leap toward her throat if she tried to
impale him on one of the horns. But
the peace had thus secured did not
last long. The third day discovered
that a. friendship had been formed be-
tween the animals. Eulalie, discover
ing that the dog never bit her, began
to use him as playmate in her romps
and when both of them started over
a fence and across country, any poor
effort of mine to overtake them was
hopeless. But, left to themselves, they
would eventually bring up at the pas
ture in the morning and at the barn
in our back yard at night I stopped
worrying about them until I discov-
cred that they conducted too many OF
their revels in newly sown fields and
/ truck gardens, and the bills for de-
! struction began to come in.
So I persuaded my father to sell
Eulalie. She was what is called fine
mixer, and he hated to give her up
But all the proceeds from the milk
/, we're going to pay claims for damages
| so at last he yielded. A farmer living
i 10 miles away came one morning to
4 take her away. He asked nothing about
her habits, and told him nothing
But that night, far past bed time,
heard the bars, which constituted the
back gate, crash down and, looking
out into the moonlight, I saw that
i'Eulalie had returned Her purchaser
came to cur house the next morning,
and wanted his money back. He got
it.
A week later we sold her to man
living in southern state who had ad-
vertiSed for a Jersey cow. accompa-
MED Fulalie to the train and watched
them load her in box car We heard
a few days later that the train she
travelled on was wrecked think she
must have wrecked it. Probably she
escaped and ravaged the countryside
till somebody CAUGHT her and sold her
to the butcher But hope this was
net the case Now that I don't have
to drive her to pasture any more
begin to like and admire her.
Copyright, 1928, Bell Syndicate, Inc0
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