MAD COW AMOK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 3

MAD COW AMOK.

LIVELY SCENES ON THE EOAD. A strange story of a mad cow is told by the Te Kuiti correspondent of the Auckland "Star." "It appears," says the report, "that on Sunday week the manager of a local butter factory was riding homewards on his horse when he observed a wild-looking cow occupying the roadway, and apparently intent on mischief. The animal charged the horssman, and, the horse turning round, the cow got its horn in the- stirrup leather, and jammed horse and rider against the fence, over whicli the rider jumped and escaped. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Anderson, a half-caste, riding in the same direction, was savagely attacked by the cow, which dug its horns in the horse, and made the rider beat a quick retreat —over the fence, too! Then camo , along two Maori boys, riding bicycles. ' They looked at tho beast, and thought it was only, a quiet old cow. Their impressions were rudely dispelled when the animal charged one of the bicycles, lifting it high in the air, and throwing the rider to tho ground. Then the cow attacked the lad, and was about to gore him, when it was seizsd by the other boy who aggravated it so much that it turned, and, becoming entangled in the wrecked bicycle, itself came to the ground. Both lads made off as fast as they could, one jumping over the thrice valuable fence, and the other hiding in the bush. There is a story of a mad dog told in an old ballad, wherein ■ Tho man' recovered of the bite, the dog it was that died,' and in this particular story— every detail true as witnesses vouch—the various participators escaped ' without serious injury, except the cow, which was dramatically shot, and so ended its briefly vicious career."