Show THE THIM STUB STUD TAILED COW an incident of f a life lincoln rein of a stoff story at atan an official ball during durine last administration saya a washing g ton storyteller thieves enado off with I 1 many of tho the bats hats and overcoats of guests 60 0 o icat when the presidential party wa was uly 4 y to leave vio vi vl o deat hamline head covering wa was no whore where to bo be found ill 11 tell you what ll amlin 11 said A friend early in the ei uba I 1 saw MAW a m ln sod of loon leon fores foresight ichU hide his hat I 1 am sure he would be willi williamr air to donate it to the abond ad minis and I 1 will go and get it 1 hen the hat wa woo brodu produce pd it bore a badge 0 mourning which tho the vice president ripped off with his pen pon knits rho party flood stood wai tioff for or tho the carri oges to be ditren up when a man hopped stopped directly in front of sir ham fill and stood staring it ahe he tilea what are you looking at asked II amlin your hat answered any ered theman the man mildly II 11 a wood oa it i should eay say it waa was mine well it baat yot got a weed on it it haa box it no N sir eald the halkeis roan Itha it eWt oben it U your hat Is if its noi na I 1 rues CUO rue IB s not aalde the inart its n he lie walked away that remind reminds nio me az g lincoln ot of when I 1 wa was and ln in Illi nob and our only neighbor were tho the garrison ot of a united united state states fort 0 ile o did pretty well for r salt alt meat and flour but milt milk wae was not to be had for lovo love or money and the officers ficera of of the fort who had two cowe cows a stub tailed one and a black and white one offered ia 13 none at laet lost wo we decided to borrow ono one ct of those cowa we procured a tall to M match atch the color of the stub tailed cow cov neatly tied it to the poor rtuh tin and a with appetites whetted by long abstinence drank and relished the sweet milic milk oar our cota co cave gava A few days att afterward orward wo un expectedly expect odly honored by a call from the commander of the fort boys Boya saldie sal eald dhe hai wo we hf have lve lost art of our cows COWL if that cow of yours had a stub tail tall I 1 should say it was ours but sho she haan t a 4 stub tail haj has her be r asked we wo no I 1 said the officer she certain ly haa has not well she the iset your cow then 1 and our argument areu ment was as uc answer able and complete as |