Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-23
OTHERS VIEWS
OH NO, L WASN'T SCARED!

To the Editor:
So many have asked me to write
some more that I am writing of a
trip I took the last weekend.
During the depression my car
wore out, so sometimes when I wish
to take a trip, I stop some friend on
the road to take me along, which has
given me ONE very intereting chats
and experiences.
For instance, I lately rode with DR..
Crittendent during (which time we
discussed some historic highway
markers for Vance, same as they are
being put UP in other counties.
Last Saturday, left the post Of
flee with friend, Brady, manager of
Dryden Lumber Co. At Mr.. Geo. B.
Harris corner, an employee Hender-
son Furniture Company stopped and
asked me to ride to Oxford with him.
From Oxford, I rode five miles with
a man from Stems, who was boring
q we'll just this side of Oxford. He
was going to Virgilinia, and I left
him beyond Hester Baptist church,
to the west.
Willie WdlIluS IOI duOblcI IlO0y
became interested in a white dog
running and barking after a rabbit,
and soon I saw Mr. Rabbit jumping
through the grass, and down the path.
wished I had had my gun,
would have taken chances of Harry
Edwards putting me in the "hoose-
cow" as I like rabbit pie very much
in fact all kinds of pie.
Next was a mile or so down the
road with colored friend. Here I
picked up a couple of apples and we'll
along eating them.
Just beyond the next house, in
the pasture were several cows and a
bull, and that great big black bull,
larger than the G. o. p elephant,
and with horns like the Devils, walk
ed over to the fence of only two or
three wires, and walked after me
like a cat after a bird, mean looking
eyes too.
I walked along fast, which caused
him to trot, and only so feet from
me too. In the bottom were some
bushes, where I hoped I was out of
his sight, so I ran across the bridge
and up the hill as fast as I could
to some buildings, the bull believing
IN the corner of fence, and fearing
every moment to see him coming aft
er me. Had that rabbit been in front
OF me, | doubt if I would have stop-
pea 10 pick him up in passing him.
AND mad that bull bull come after
me (Which he could easily have done
througn that fenccD could never
ma reached any place of safety.
1here was 10 tree to climb.
On, no. [ wasn't scared, and had he
nave enc after NE | would have
Popeyed' him on the snout into the
MIDDLE of next week. Grand, brave
words to say now, when he is is miles
away from me.
l am asking my friend Hon. A. A.
tlrks to see the owner, and suggest
tAat this bull be kept in a tight pen,
or made into beet-steak. But I feel
sure the owner is going to claim he
is gentler than cry old COW he has,
and he only wanted me to scratch his
head
While laughing at this stop a mo-
ment and think what would you have
done.?. -
A few minutes later a farmer boy
with wide straw hat, picked me
up, and We rode on to Hebron Pres
byterian. chu1c'. We got to talking,
and he rJde me in mile from the
road to Level Green, Joseph Morton
bought tliis place around 1910, when
he married my mothers aunt, Annie
Daniel of Tranquility which is five
miles west -
Level Green was named for the
Morton home in Virginia, it now has
about 1000 acres.
It was left to Cousin Will Morton,
who died here a few weeks ago.
I found new road had been cut
nearly straight to the house. Gran
vile county bought a caterplller
tractor and road builder for $4,000,
which they rent with two men Tor