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Show I fcOW BUTTS POST; TAIL I SEVEN INCHES LONGER I REMARKABLE YARN FROM MICH- IGAN TOWN WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE. H GalcBburg. Mlcli. Tho little sn ot H -Mr. and .Mrs. .luromc Saunders, wlio reside just over tlio line In Charleston township, wns playing about the door H ynrd tho other dny and, spying the H gnlo of the harnyurd open, wandered through It into forbidden territory. H As the child Is only four years of H ngo his Judgment hns not inattited, H and when ho snw one of tho young H cows lying down, his childish I m pit I su H led him to cllinh upon his necl. Then H the an i mill "came to," and with n H frightened hollow dashed for tlie gala H and through It. H Some providential Instinct would seem to have Inspired tho boy, as ho the An- Imal'a Horns. at once seized tho nulmal's horns, ono with each chubby hand, and clung for H dear life, whllo tho cow dashed madly H down the rond to tho homo of a neigh fi bor, from whom sho had been pur chased. Hero the barn door was opet H nnd through it sho ran, striking hci 1 hend against an upright beam witl H such tcrrlllc forco that sho wns In stnntly killed, dropping dead In liei tracks, H Fortunately for tho llttlo passenger, tho sudden stoppage released his hold upon tho horns nnd he wns thrown fop ward, to land unhurt upon tho partial- ly-flllcd haymow. Some Iden of the forco of tho lin-pact lin-pact of tho cow's head against tho post 1 mny bo gathered from the fact that upon examination her backbone was found so completely dlsplnccd ns to lengthen tho tnll nearly seven Inches. |