A very strange accident befell Mrs. D on Wednesday last which, had it not been for her courageous conduct would, no doubt, have proved fatal to her life.
It appears she went on top of a straw covered stable in search of eggs; the straw giving way, she fell through and landed on the head of an ox that was tied in the stable.
At this unexpected presence the ox became greatly excited, hooked her and trampled upon her until her head was literally mashed and her face covered with blood. When consciousness returned, she saw the alternative of death or a desperate struggle for release. She wiped the blood which was freely flowing from her temples, out of her eyes, and seizing the maddened beast by the horns, raised herself up and climbed back on the top of the stable, through the hole that had let her down. She then succeeded in reaching the house and lay there for two hours before any one discovered her condition...A physician...found her head terribly mashed and that it was necessary to remove two pieces of the fractured skull.
The doctor reports hopefully on her case. Mrs. D is fifty-six years old and has enough grit to always take the dilemma, or ox, which ever it may be, by the horns and pull through....The world needs more women of that type.
Got the grit of this 125 year old report?
NOT ME!
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