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"MARY," THE TRENCH COW

The Eev. G. H. Donald, in a letter to the congregation of the AVeat Parish Churcii,' Aberdeen, says:— "i was walking up a trench for the first time with .the signalling officer, and aB we trudges along Miffing the air I said to him, 'Hullo, there's a cow here!' Wo very soon found the cow in a dug-out all its own, with the superscription 'Mary,' and the little rhyme about a 'crumpled horn,' and a 'dug-out that tho French built.' Tin's cow is entered in the books as a 'trench store' and has supplied us with excellent milk. She has oeen well fed aud well tended. Ration biscuits and grass aro her 6taple food. A soldier farm-boy lovingly tends her, aud a sentry is set over her whllo she feeds on the precious grass plot at the edge of tho wood lest some marauding villain from the next battalion should <>ovet hev, "She's tho picture of content, and the other day a shell burst twenty-five yards from lier dug-out and rained it with bul? lets and mud."

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 10

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"MARY," THE TRENCH COW Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 10

"MARY," THE TRENCH COW Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 10

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