GARDEN PILFERERS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 592, 7 March 1876, Page 3

GARDEN PILFERERS.

Sis, — Ib the face of olubs, reaping-hooks, broomstickf, and all other such implements of torture, on* of \ht most daring attsmpts of oannabalism wii perpetrated on Sunday morning in my kitche» garden, by an enormous animal in the shape of a cow, whose colour i> a red body and white lest, or other wiie might be termed a piebald. This animal, it would appear, is of noble birth, and like all other 'animal* of this planet, ■which loos* 'their pride through the want 'of the proper necessaries of this life, was comfeelled to force iU way off the streets of Hamilton West, to 'satisfy the wants of a 'oraring appetite*. , This animal, like the bloodhounds on the trail, smelled the good things from afar, and getting oft its knees (not to pray,) ctept through the fence, and in n6 other way oould it bare gained an entrance. "Oh, horror ! could I have teen it in time, I certainly would have had one of iti naunohes for my dinner to-day, (Sunday,) tn lieu of all my cabbigo. My c»bb^« \ Ob

my cabbage I ! they are all gone, this cow has eaten them all 1 ! ! Mr editor, pity me, what am Ito do ; they oost 6d per htad ia the centre ot An agricultural district, aiui tarn &o«r deprived of W» worth of head* at that pri<x> P Do po nt oat the advisability of towing grMS toed in Vic- ■ toria, Collingwood, and Aagleaw-atreets, aod alto on Victona road, to as tv furnifh iuffioUnt food for the«e animali. It can >>c done, their owaers pay 2s 6d per year cheerful!/, and that ought to be fnfficient to purchase graei seed enough to lay the whole of Vietoria-itreet, and have it fit for cattle grazing ia the coming spring. l*oor animal*, 'they know not what they do ; and the rery idea of trying to support them on a hulf-a-crown a year must be forgotten, as long at they giro milk which is Mid at 6d per quart, nearly double of that in the city of Auckland. Yet, sir, I hire be«h told that 2» 6d per head for cowi wat all that had to be paid, but if their owners h&re from time to time been •erred as I hare bran this blessed morning, without a head of cabbage to put in the"pot, I will forgire them ail, and sing Here growa green the gran . Which i&akes butter'freih and twett, In all the neighbour* gardens Within reacfc of Viotom-itreet. Apologising for the •ffenc* of writing too mnch for your valuable space, where muoh more could be said, but t fc&teitto batter hind*.*— l am, &,c, CiBBAGt, Hamaton, sth Maroh, 1876.