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December. 191 0
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L.I\NDSWO"AAN
I h.:- l'OW~
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n.od IJt•tog t.H1d up in the ~;hcd wtth tlwm.
L fl'lt vr.•ry nl'n.om. of l11m to lx·gin \Hth. but oon
got. over tl.tl\t, nnd • 011· Bull. aocl r l)t•Cfl.rn(' fa:~t
f rtl'ncl!s
Ho woulrl <·ut rlaity cl'lw out of my hand
ttntl try to put hiH JICW• into my polk<·t for mort·.
A VIRltor to th• farrn chaUcng•·d rue to art th~· b'Oil
to Rtand for ht9 photogra.ph, !to th1 uc xt timu hi"
ri\OH' OH r l t(l(>k s•Jmo C'nko tn my po('k!•t anti lf'd
tlw wn.y to tho fit\ltl wlwro th,, hull was lying.
\\ hr 11 1 C'ttllc !I his nnmc thr bull got np and ra..nw to
m~·. nud toml qwctly fcNhn~ out of my hand \\ lul••
two phtli.Ogll.~ph-. Wl'ln" tl\kC'n. I am Rorry UJ ~n.y
thn.t 11onn nfl.<•r I )("ft th<" fnrm IH)Jnt·thtng W( nt wt·ong
\\!Ill my b1~ pd, n.ncl he flnishcd upu.ttlw hutr<'d a.nd groomPc~
box, ('t('. UntiJ q111t<· rec·•·ntly he• bas ooen left
uuohnmcd, and many n. hmf• hnw l gem(} in and ~arl wtthtn a
few tnch<'s of me. H e gave mo no chance to eail"h
hi:-. nose ring-tho old ra.Rca.J! -and thore I ha.d to
stay unttl my ma~ oa.mC' and coa.xecl rum away w1th
& ha.Jldful of something nice, and I promJltly b<-o.t a.
rotroa.t through th.o otho r door. Thrct' conseeutiw
d a f::l hP ontet('d lus prob~$t in the sa.m•' way, on tht'
t hird occa.s10n knoaktng my prong out of my
bands, lea ving me dt~ fe ncoless. T here was no one
within hoaring, so t here I b.tld t{) sta.y until his
lordship evidently considered he had punjsbed me
e nough and lot me go (I wont back and roscuC?d my
fork a £tor wnrds.) On my telling the boss he decided
that poor Bttly should lx- chnmcd up Before he
"as cbnmod I only hnd t{) sn.y: ' L\kt' a ptN'O of
cako, Billy ? ' a nd his bead vorou ld be over t h<' door
in n second, n.nd if I Mkl•d hi m to ki.Ss me, ho would
p u t his nose up to mv f a~o and gtYc roe such a lick
(which, howev(lr, I usually dodged , as h.ia tonguf'
Jf.i so rough l)
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Wo ha;vo nlso scvon youngsters, five under six
months of nge, j ust pla.yiul b a.btes a-. yot, a nd two
olde r, 1 ~ ycn.rR and l year respoctivcly. W hen they
w£'ro 11 nn d 7 mon ths, m y ma lo antand s tock still no matter how s lw
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Moresb,. Soow
~JDir
a n.d
Maud Bosomwo rt b .
D oria Raper, D.S.B . wi th
s un ..
coaxed or pulll"tl,
o n.e of ber
White GJrt and I~
Ha.lnett
A Leu:e Atu LA A.S. and
her Bull
one day, I thought 1 would
gt'ltO the little ~ggar a. le~ son.
I took a. ~>\\ttch
with m(', and used tt when he ;;,topped and refwed
to bud~e. He prom1Jtly tned to knock mo dO\\n.
but nt lru.t ga.vc ID and '"ent qlll~tly until we turned
bnck; thon ho tumc·cl stubborn nnd \\ouldu 1
movt>, «o I gnvt• lnm thC' st. ck. He turnen Ho bcbnYtd better n{tf'r thnt .
The two havo bcl.'n out to grass nU thr• summer,
but n•memher thetr old h·s-;ons when \\C ha't' to
catch anc.l shift them to new pa&htr<'~-'·"
A Land (hrlm Chc,.h.Jro ha~ been \\Orki ng at n
receiv10g depot where p<>tbgnf' l'ttllle are kept, for
t\ few wcoks to rccetvn thC"tr finlll groom•ng v.nd
polishing bcfon· tb.oy t\.1'(\ shipp<'d to Bm·no.ti Ayn"s,
where thl~Y fctth n very high prtc• indt:l•cl. Hcn·ford
bulls in pe.r tt<.'ular, with their hand~om('l ~haggy
coats,look all t.h<" ht-ttcr for tht "t' at tcnl1ons tfl tlwtr
toilct, and th<'y arc wry b<'atttlful cN·alurc·Q who
posC" for t.ht..'il' photograph bdcw.' tlwy n.ro Ion shH• lt~, would malt•• bi"
escape as q Uickly as possthlc.
Mows by Snow King, wbol'lc photogrnph. tog •tlwt
with t hat ,of hi~ L.A.A.S. attendant. il' '>(en
n.bovo. is a. prize shorthorn bull belonp:m~
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