An Experience

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AN EXPERIENCE. BY DAVID B. ANDERSON, STUDENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH.

[Every person who knew the fun-loving and jolly nature of the late Hon. Aaron F. Farr, a pioneer of the original one hundred and forty-three, of 1847, and for a time judge of Weber County, a man of sterling char- acter and sunny disposition, will readily believe the following amusing anecdote of him, related in an English composition exercise by this young student. Editors.]

A good many years ago the late Judge Aaron F. Farr, of Ogden, had a flock of sheep, of which he was justly proud and careful. He used to send them to a pasture several miles distant, every morning, in charge of two or three of his sons. One evening, several of the old bucks came home covered with mud. When he asked his sons how it happened, they replied that the sheep must have fallen into the spring. There being a muddy spring in the pasture, he concluded that the bucks had been fighting among themselves, and had pushed each other in. But after that, they frequently came home in the same condition, and his sons would never explain the cause, so he determined to learn for himself. He followed the boys to the pasture, one morning, and hid in some willows, near the spring. Soon the boys brought the sheep to a large tree, they themselves coming to the spring. One of the boys got down on his hands and knees, at the edge of the water and morass, and jumped around. An old buck saw him, and taking his actions as a challenge-signal, madly rushed at him. But as soon as the sheep got dangerously near, the boy quickly sprang aside, letting the buck turn sommersaults into the mud and water.