HOW THE STOREKEEPER TURNED RANGER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 124, 18 February 1908, Page 2

HOW THE STOREKEEPER TURNED RANGER.

Writing of tho pounding,of. cattle our . travelling correspondent says man habitually turned , his . cows : into-the "oiig paddock, ami so mo of-hi3 neighbours .were much annoyed; but tho ranger could'not-seo theso particular .cows,' closo ■ by turned, half-a-dozen; on the road, fid-m less than. ~ half-an-ho'ur the. 'ranger seized, them'.;.: V A•• funny,ithing; happpned'-, in. this connection somo time ago. .••U yasju a . bush settlement.. i- A- storekeeperwho : also had; a few cows, was much annoyed by other . people's cows < being left 1 on the road .at night. Therused^to.break 1 dowivli!3 fences.. At last; he said,nest time ho. found;any..,oil tho,road ho would: drive, them to the, pound. All went well for'a wciok, or ten'days: no cows out:' Buti at last;;: Coming dark, lie saw; several cows du i, Ha got .his : tea, land:- then. ' setf ''out'.': again, .. rounded up tho;. cattle, and drove tlieiii to the pound during' tlio 'morning when his boy went- to get tho cows in ho could not' find' thorn;' but'.-ho and' saw a gap in : tho'. fence: 1 They ' Tyero'his own cows' which W ha'dr driven off-to the-dark and put in tho pound'. ' It Was a!'standing joke for a long timo about hbw the 'storekeeper turuod ranger." ...■ ' , .