The Adventures of a Cow.

Manawatu Herald, 28 September 1895, Page 3

The Adventures of a Cow.

The following is the report of a case which came before the Lord Mayor some time ago. A farmer living in Epping Forest had a cow that grtW; BO- did that he felt be ought to fiell her, ai she gave little or no milk.- He took her to the market, disposed, of her for £4 10s, and after trying to buy another and failing, returned home. The man he Bold her to took hev about and tried to dispose of her, bat was finding that he could not realise what he had paid, when " a dootor," who had been regarding him for some time, offered for a fee of sb, to make -net as young as she was 10 years before. The fee was immediately paid, and the doctor took his patient .to. a stall, carded her all over, prescribed some strange diet for her, lawed down her horns into the tapering and smoothness of youth,*, and made her look like a heifer * again. * Hereupon the new owner- thought that he could do no better than selliier again to the old owner; % aria to Mps&g he so far fluctfeeded as.fygeOne farmer to buy hw' r "wexM. 7sj as'a young not go. into how the fraud' was 'Uncovered, but it is curious tQ..Aog£U|at the Lord Mayor, on hearing o£ .|he casG could not help laughing at the deception, and at the same time declared his inability to pnnish it.