THE HAT PIN AGAIN.
A dairy cow died at Maraetaha the other day under somewhat | peculiar circumstance (says the j Mataura Ensign). Whilst being I milked it was noticed that something was wrong with the animal, and upon being liberated from the bail tbe cow walked away for about twenty yards and then fell dtad A post-mortem examination revealed the strange circumstance of a wd man's hat pin embedded for several inches in the heart Tho pin was of tbe ordi nary kind, but the head was broken off, aod from tbe manner in which the top was bent it is surmised tbat the cow bad at some time lain on it, breaking the head, and the pin penetrating tbe body. It is also possible tbat tbe cow became possessed of tbe pin by taking it in with a mouthful of grass whilst feeding. It had evidently not heen acquired recently, for tne state of the heart around the pin showed that it had been there for some time
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3467, 26 October 1896, Page 3
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169THE HAT PIN AGAIN. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3467, 26 October 1896, Page 3
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