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He said he hadn't time to waste on saving horses; but he always had one or two teams that he took good care of; and once in a while Pinck Johnson went back, to Kentucky, it was said, and brought on a fresh supply. As they came near to us the negro pulled up, and halted just after they had passed us. We stopped, and Gowdy came back to my wagon. "How do you do, Mr. Vandemark," he said.
I jumped in ahead of him, so as to show Virginia that her fellow was not the only patriot, and beat him to it. "So you are going to fight Kaintucky?" said she to me as if I had engaged to ruin everything she held dear. "We must save the Union," I said. "I didn't think of you being on the other side!" "Mr. Lockwood," said she, "this is Teunis Vandemark, an old friend of mine.
"Can we be of any assistance?" "I guess I can make it," I said, scraping the mud off my trousers and boots. "Gee-up there, Liney!" My cows settled slowly into the yoke, and standing, as they did now, on firm ground, they deliberately snaked the wagon, hub-deep as it was, out of the mire, and stopped at the word on the western side of the mud-hole. "Good work, Mr. Vandemark!" he said.
I had become Cow Vandemark overnight, and am still Cow Vandemark in the minds of the old settlers of Vandemark Township and some who have just picked the name up. But I did not take on my new name without a struggle, for Flora and Fanny had become dear to me since leaving Madison my first horses.
The Governor was not even a citizen of Vandemark Township, but he had some land in it. Buck Gowdy's great estate lapped over on one corner of the township, Governor Wade's on the other, and Hell Slew, nicknamed Vandemark's Folly Marsh cut it through the middle, and made it hard for us to get out a full vote on anything after we got the township organized.
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