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Fall, Texl,s .Puee 1
TIL.: COW THAT FM, INTO TH'.E DUGgUT
"Yes, a cow fell into my house", said I. G. Hardin, with cknOk110.
"I'll tell you how it ha., exed. The family w• -s snug and warm, safe
fr,)m the winds and lightening storms in our dugout ii 1879.
The dugout was fine -timbered aid lined. It needed a door, amp.
ever,exa while I wa- making the door one of those Tex -di blizzards blew
up with several 'aches of snow.
"A good cattleman takes cure of his cattle, so I spread a wawa
sheet over tae doorway and went to work on a shed for the cattle jest
outeie the shack. This was soon covered woth snow but it was a
break fro 72 the wind.
"I went into the hous- to get warm.
"In the shed the mules got to fighting for a good rm place,
crowding out the cows. I couldn't blame them muck; Brrr: That wind
was k,len.
'But one old cow just ooulde't take it. She broke out and ran
across the prairie. That was bad enough in such we!Ither as tbat, bat
when afte chose ner path across the dugout entrance it was just too
bae for every one concerned.
"Tnik about unexpect-A company d'upping in: k"ell there she was,
wagon sheet, snow, and all. Of course we all hollered. That seamed
her and she want out of tn., dugout, acamTdring away over the pretrial
afaile with the wegon sheet on bsr horns. Provoked as I was I had too
laugh asI chased that fool cow".
7.q.Harein is now (1907) the president of the First National Beak
in :ftrkburnett 1Sem Neat-ra in Nesterville).
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