The Contemplative Cow
Recent proceedings in an English Court of Appeal arising out of the collision of a motor-car with a cow, laid it down with all the majesty of the law that a cow might "claim the privilege to stand and stare." That seems to put the creature one up on the cat, whose ability to look at kings rests on merely proverbial authority and has never received any backing from the High Court. But one cannot think that ‘this. ruling will cause any particular comment among cows. With or without permission from the Court of Appeal it is common knowledge that the cow is one of the best starers in the animal kingdom; through large and melancholy eyes it has been looking out for centuries on a world which it apparently regards with pensive and unfathomable disillusion. Sometimes a cow sits down and stares; sometimes it stands up and stares; but always and
everywhere there are, at any given moment, thousands and thousands of large, rectangular cows staring outwards and onwards into infinite space.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 34
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176The Contemplative Cow New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 34
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