Show ebenezer sp Spill illguth gath and the C caff alf WY W by Y ells IT pa darker rac e r B butler u ha 0 a A aishor edh or is a pigs etc E tc sl 5 B by y PETER NEWELL the reverend ebenezer Spill gath hearick of Bet benaville aville Is 1 one obe of the kindest hearted men lit li our midst and organ izer of the lietz ville society for the prevention of cruelty to animate animals of at which aunt detz betz Is the other member but there are ome some an finals it la Is mighty had haid to please about a year ago mr air Spill gath th heard a calf bawling in brotie me itic dobbles harn barn and it bawled so sadly that mr heart was touched and he went in and upbraided orone but all orono eald said was that if it the reverend Spill gath felt that way about it he could have the plagued calf and welcome but that aa as for him he going to spend all hie his time trying 1 to teach th wobbly legged cow child to climb trees so the reverend spill gath upbraided orone orono a few times for hie his language and took the calf home in less than a year he wished he hadn haan t As soon ae as lit had the calf home he turned it loose in the back yard and went over to aunt hunt to lecure a donation for to the purpose of improving thu happiness of the calf but hen ahen he machad home again the calf ant sadder than ever it was wars standing before an apple tree with its front feet on the trunk looking up into the bough aid and bawling piteously it WE waa evident that the calf wanted to limb tho the tree and find mr Spill gath Is 1 kind hearted so he gave the calf ft a boost and it scrambled into the crotch of the tree As soon as it was up it emitted a little bleat of at joy and immediately fell down the other side of the to its it head bead it was a melancholy melon choly calf hen ben it wan was not bawling to le loe boost ed into the tree it was bawling be cause it had alighted on its head in a few raw week weeks it wore out that tree and mr bad had to do hie his beet best to boost it into the big elm and that was pretty hard work for the crotch crutch of the elia elm aa vaa about 12 feet up HP ile was obliged to run to aunt every day for contribution contributions what made it worse was that tho th culf calf was growing all the while and while it Is Ls not so bad to boost a calf up a tree it la Is a job and a half halt to boost a cow and it takes a lot of con tribu tlona mr sir Spill gath bad had to hire sev eral of hie his relatives to help him and they would all take hold of the cow and give her ft a mighty boost lute the of the elm sometime sometimes thy boosted so hard that they tossed the cow brigt through the crotch and over the fence into oran i a 3 ard out but that did not make much differ ence for the cow always fell out of the crotch anyway sooner or later and it saved time NN when hen they tossed the cow right over they were able to get her and toss her again all the sooner when they did not toes toss the cow bawled and when they did toss she fell with a thud and bawled just the fame same and there wasn gasn t anything deemed seemed to interest the LOW cow but tree climbing incept 1 firework fireworks the cow wax passionately fond of fireworks pass reverend SPill gath dis covered that the evening of 0 july 01 3 7 lip I 1 4 it wa was evident that the calf call wanted to climb the tree and mr Is 1 kind hearted so he gave the calf a boost tree and lit on its head it bawled about that for or an hour and then it got up and turned around and put tta its fore feet on the tree trunk and bawled to be tip in the tree again so mr gane it another boost and it scrambled up into the crotch and bleated one on e jo fully and fell out of the treon the other side for a week the reverend Spill gath brent alt all his time boosting the e calf alf into the trie and seeing it tall fall out again but at the nd nil of that time the calf call waa was able a to lie ile in the crotch of the tree free with ite its hind lera lers hanging down one hide side of the tree and its fore legs P gs hanging down don the other and it eho sho ild have been happy but it wasal s moon ae as it as able to remain in the crotch it began looking toward tile upper branches brant bee and bawling to be bt up in them nut but as eoon soon as the reverend Spill gath gave it a boost it fell through the crotch onto ltd its head bead it waa aas a ead sad case of misapplied devotion to an ideal and reverend spill gath went over to aunt Rhino colura a and got at another iother contribution out of her for the th of at the condl tion of tree climbing bah es oddly enough th cash con tribu lonn ions of did not aein to improve the bait in the way of climbing it remained a mighty poor tree climber and no explanation explanations of the art made by air helped the calf call much mr Spill gath would explain to the calf how to climb the tree ui then he would follow pre capt with example and would climb he treo tree himself and the calf would look on eagerly and fairly pant to do herself and then mr sir SPIll gath bould give the calf a boost and it paw at the tree with its lege legs nd ad pluck through the crotch on fourth the cow instantly stopped bawling for higher things a you might say the moment she saw fire works so he went over to aunt 8 and got a big con tribu tion for firework fireworks and every evening ho he had roman candles or epin spin wheela wheels or rockets for the cow she seemed to like epin spin wheels the beet best but only about one out of a dozen epin spin wheels work right and when they did not ork right the cow would lie ile do down doi i and weep piteously lr hut but you cn t use fireworks to ad rd vantage during the day ebenezar thought of getting a big tent and dark enang it so he be could have far the cow by day but aunt ight ocol urs objected she bald said she wai was about to a anish 0 she o i marked rather aulls that beef leak steak at least did not bawl so mr did the best he could for a while but the cow grew crad sho she wanted the pinwheels epin pin wheels in the top of 0 the elm tree so the she could be climbing the tree and watching the fireworks simultaneously this really algrava ag grava cd ed reverend Ilc verond although he la is one of the kindest hearted of men and ho be said that as aunt Rhino colura had cebird her contributions it was evident tt 0 him that thir was the kind of cow that would uever be ha happy appy anywhere bu but in fleaven the butch hutch er gave him twenty eight dollar dollars for the cow of t ourse aunt did not get air of the twenty eight dollars dul lare for nhe wag was merely a con member but she vas a at 1 owed towed to bay bur all the cow steaks sho wanted from the butcher at the regu tar jar tale rate and reverend Hever end ah a bill 1 for damage ta his apple tree was only twenty eight dollars 1 W by bir W 0 |