HEIFER ON THE HEIGHT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 40, 12 January 1949, Page 8

HEIFER ON THE HEIGHT

Not long ago a heifer at Curry Bivel, Somerset, wandered away from her companions and came to the well-known landmark, the Pynsent Monument, which overlooks Sedgmoor, the last battlefield in England, and which was built by. the first William Pitt in 1768 in memory of William Pynsent, who had left him Burton Pynsent House. The heifer was not well up in these historical matters, but was soon to be well up in another sense, for she became interested in the spiral staircase of 172 steps which ascends inside the column. She began to climb them. The tower was not built for cows, and - cows are not built for - stair climbing, but this heifer stuck to it and reached the top. • Then she found difficulty in getting out on theopen platform that surrounds the dome. That was hard luck after climbing all those stairs to see the view, and she began to bellow wrathfully. Two of her owner’s sons saw her struggles to complete her ascent. They ran up the stairs and began gently reasoning with her. In the end she allowed herself to be led downstairs again and trotted off to join the herd, no doubt to be given good advice by some wise old cow about a heifer’s place being on the ground.