THE SHIP'S COW BOOED.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 356, 5 March 1903, Page 6

THE SHIP'S COW BOOED.

It Heard the Foghori and Mistook It for a Relative—The Mr«t«rr Explained. t The captain of an English steamer •pun a yarn the other day of the mysterious "800-o-o" which answered his foghorn. He was steaming down the channel, when the thick fog came on. At such times he never leaves the bridge, and sounds the foghorn himself. On this occasion, after sounding the signal, he heard a foghorn in reply right ahead. He turned the ship's head a point to avoid collision, and then sounded again. Again the reply came "800-o-o," right ahead as before. The vessel's head was put back to the same position as at first, and once more the foghorn was sounded. Still the reply came, as before, right ahead, "Hoo-o-o." "It was very strange; I could not make it out," said the captain, telling the yarn. "I tried again; still the same 'Boo-o-o' right ahead. A feeling of superstition began to creep over me, and I was giving myself a mental shake to pull myself together, when the lookout man forward called out: "ii's the old coo. sir." And so in iruth it was—the milk cow kept on the tV-r. '•:•.-: I- for the use of the ship. Sh<. no d.>til>r. took the 'boo-o-o-ing* of t'ic signal for the cry of a companion in distress, and gaTe a sympathetic response."