A “COW" STORY.
From Nova Scotia comes the tale of a post-mortem examination on a cow which revealed that her diet had included nineteen nails, ten carpet tacks and a gramophone needle, says the “Manchester Guardian.” That is pretty good, but far from a recordbreaking performance. The best tale of a cow’s capacity comes, as might be expected, from the United States. A farmer in lowa had left his waistcoat (which included his gold watch) over a fence, and a calf coining along promptly gobbled up the garment, watch and all. Seven years later the calf, now a mature cow, was consigned to the slaughter-house, and when the carcase was afterwards opened up the watch was found still going, the 1 explanation being that it had lodged in such a position that the respiration of the animal’s lungs had automaticlly wound it up. Nor did that exhaust the miracle. In all those years the watch had lost only two minutes!
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIII, Issue 3251, 20 February 1933, Page 7
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160A “COW" STORY. Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIII, Issue 3251, 20 February 1933, Page 7
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