All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten

Author:Theodore Rosengarten [Rosengarten, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83191-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

THE night my daddy died, I stayed there the balance of the night, studyin and plannin on how to take a hold, run around and see about all of his connections. I got back home that mornin and first thing I done when I drove in the yard, I stretched my eyes toward the barn and I seed my boys down there with a yearlin hangin up. My wife walked out and told me— We was milkin a couple of cows and I had a Guernsey cow there that strictly belonged to my wife. I bought that cow from a colored fellow by the name of Warren Todd. She was a good cow, Guernsey cow, I give Warren Todd fifty dollars for that cow—my wife gived me the money and I bought the cow, it was her cow then. I had other cows there but she wanted a good milk type to furnish milk and butter. I just figured it was mine to take care of and use but if ever the cow was sold or anything happened to it, it was her cow. She was a large cow, a heavy milker. Vernon went with me over to Warren Todd the mornin I bought that cow; lived out there between me and Apafalya on what they called the Joe Grimes place.

So, when my daddy died, I rushed back home from Apafalya that mornin and when I drove in there around the back yard to the car shed, two-car shed—had two cars at that time—my wife come outdoors and I said to her when she got to where I could see her, “What’s the matter at the lot?”

She said, “Darlin, Fanny killed my heifer this mornin—” that was the cow, Fanny; she said, “The boys milked this mornin and they turned Fanny out knowin that she was ill, and my heifer—” She had a nice heifer there, it weren’t Fanny’s calf, neither; it was a heifer from another one of my cows. So, my wife told me there in the yard that mornin: Fanny was ill. She walked out of the lot and this heifer was standin out a piece beside the fence. Soon as Fanny walked out there—she had short horns, a short-horned cow—she walked right up to that heifer and all at once before the heifer thought, Fanny lunged into her side and busted a hole right behind that heifer’s leg, right front leg; when she horned that heifer she busted the hide and went through. One of the boys had just turned Fanny out and he was standin there lookin at it. He went and runned her away. But this heifer stood there and trembled and walked off and fell. My wife told me all about it quick as she could tell me. The boys had to kill that heifer. They seed she couldn’t make it after Fanny done hooked her in there somewhere close to the heart. They got around her after they seed they had to

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