PEARSON'S COWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1775, 24 February 1888, Page 3

PEARSON'S COWS.

It would appear (a*y» " Atticas '' m the " Leader ") that cows, like oo wards, may die many deaths. Mt W. Pearson, of Kllmany Park, wrote lately t_ the Minister of Lands giving him the particulars of a mysterious disease that affected a mob of cattle brought down by him from New South Wales to tiippsland, aud if the hon gentleman's statements are to be relied on those cattle ought to be about the deadest bargain tbat ever came Into a man's possession. When the mob got as far as between Berwlok and Waragul, to use Mr Pearson's exact laog.ir.ge, " they oomtaenoed dying, and did so (. 1) for four or five days." One would bave thought that having ''done so," all that remained was to write the epitaph, of tbe deceased beasts, but with a vitality that throws oats quite into tbe shade he got them to Kilmany Park "apparently perfectly healthy." When one Is gasping with astonishment at this assertion his breath is taken away a line or two after by reading, " they commenced dying apaiu, and continued doing so (? 1) for about a fortnight," Won.er at anything Mr Pearson may write after this seems impossible, and therefore it comes quite natural to read, "I have now to Inform you that they have commenoed dying again from similar symptoms." After this, lf oue wants to express absenoe of vitality m the superlative degree, instead of saying "as dead as a door nail," it will be " as dead as Pearson's cows." To be deader would be lmpoMlble.