AN OUTLAW COW

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 24

AN OUTLAW COW

TVIIITn HKIFKK OF KKNT.

Hidden In a wood near Ashfnrd. Kent, is a Shorthorn heifer which fnr many months has eluded capture by organised groups of men.

Speert.r, and n remarkable jumper, it has fliaiii mill escaped from the clutches (if men who have come within a f.*n- ftwt of it. Once more than .10 men cl"sod nn it. It rhnnrni] stmi~hi at them, knocking

The linlm.il. which is almost white. hr-loiijrs to Mr. JiMIM-rt I-inn-Kelr-ny, an<lionror unci farmer, "f I.yminffr, near l-'olkestone. who has never seen it. One day he rccelveil a message thnt the animal linrl been seen with some cows in a field beside n larj;e worn! near Ashford, lie sent sixteen men to the scene, nnd they gathered at a hortffe beside the field. The heifer saw tDein, and charged straight at thorn, leapt over the hedge, nml dashed into the wnod.

As a final resource, Mr. Flnn-Keleoy has appplicd for the services of two of the cowboys who nre taking part In the rodeo at Wembley.

When the matter was mentioned to Less Collier, one; of the cowboys now nt Wembley, his face lit up. "I sure would like to rope that cow." he said wistfully. "Lead mc there, with my horse and a rope, and I'll have her tied up before she knows what's happened. She'll be the most surprised cow in Kngland."