Article: HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS A WEEKLY PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORT FAIR TRADITION A REAL BOVINE BATH

Traditions are everywhere in our daily lives - family dinners, holidays and music. But there's one tradition that only kids involved with the Wabash County (Ill.) 4-H Fair (and, perhaps, their parents) know about.

Each year during the fair in Mount Carmel, Ill., the cow trough becomes a dunking hole. The dunking event, although not organized officially, is the kids' last hurrah before school begins in a few weeks.

The fun begins when a roving band of teenage boys and girls sneak up on their unsuspecting victims and do their best to deposit them in the bovines' beverage dispenser next to the cow barn.

"Hey, stay away from us," Colton Bosecker, 14, warned the marauding group that was closing ...

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