| Show r J tt R SAILED THE COW TO A FAIR Lad ind This ThU Cape Captain Got First In ID Special Cl Class Clau When I was down on Cape Cod I beard an amusing story about an old oldsea ten sea captain and his cow Captain Patterson Patterson Patterson Pat Pat- terson after sailing the sea for more than 40 years finally retired to a little farm fann near Barnstaple where he be settled down with a horse borse cow and two or three dozen hens His Hi cow though a lank and rather stubborn creature was said to come from very good stock and when the Barnstaple people took it into their heads to have bave a fair Captain Patterson Patterson Patterson Pat Pat- terson determined to exhibit his cow But when the day came for driving her to the grounds the cow showed that she had bad a mind of her ber own and would not budge a step beyond the farmyard gate In vain the old captain tugged atthe a athe at atthe the rope pummeled her sides and pushed push push- ed h her r flanks The cow wanted to go goto goto goto to pasture and was bound she wouldn't go to the fair Captain Pattersons Patterson's patience was very nearly gone when suddenly an nn idea occurred to him Though he was not strong enough himself to force the cow to go to the fair his bis training suggested suggested suggested sug sug- something that was Tying the cow to the gatepost he went went up tip into the loft foft of his barn and threw down anold nn an old sail stepped to a dory mast Then ho be put a 11 horses horse's blanket belt through an iron ring strapped the belt around the cow inserted the end of the mast in the ring and bound the m mast st to tho the side of ot the cow with some iome 60 50 feet of rope The wind blew quartering and when the captain untied the cow and raised the sail the canvas swelled out over the cows cow's back and away she went sidling down do the road mooing and plunging and trying t to tel stop herself in vain Captain Patterson sei seized d her tail and using it as a rudder guided her skillfully in the right direction With every fresh puff of wind the obstinate cow would be hurried alon along faster while the dust blew blev up in iu clouds and tho the sail flapped and aud tugged as Captain Captai Patterson held to the mainsheet with one hand and the cows cow's tail with the other It was a hard voyage for both of th them m but not a long one and when they came in sight of the tho fair ground everybody ran out to seo seethe the remarkable sight of a cow a-cow cow being sailed Railed through the streets tre ts like a ship Cheers and laughter fill filled d the air and when the captain finally whirled his cow around at the gate of the tho fair tair ground and brought her herne ne neatly up into tho the wind the shout that arose might have been heard beard two miles away Unfortunately Captain Pattersons Patterson's cow did not take one of of the prizes for lor bl blooded ded stock but the tho captain himself was given a special prize by the fair commissioners for the tho best advice for forgetting forgetting getting balky cattle to market Out Out Out lo look k |
