CONSTERNATION IN THE COW-BAIL

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 8, 4 October 1941, Page 14

CONSTERNATION IN THE COW-BAIL

(Written bv Lilimani (17), Eketahnna and Illustrated by Rose Dreams (15), Eketahnna.) NTOBODY can say that dairy-farming is not. an amusing occupation. We have found it very much so, now and then. Usually poor, long-suffering father is the chief object of amusement. . Now we had a cow which was a champion kicker and which also ol looted very strongly be being milked by machine. So for peace and quietness father used to milk her by hand. One day he was milking away for dear life when Distance (as we called her) decided that the concrete 1100 of the cowshed was too hard to stand on, so she calmly plonked her foot (none too gently) onto Dad’s tender big toe. Dad suffered m silence io a while as he patiently waited for Distance to remove her foot. But as she did not seem in any hurry to do so he proceeded to give her a helping baud bv pushing gently on her leg and endeavouring to push it away, w noop., steadv on. not so fast Father I you know she does not like that Father did not like what happened next. Distance kicked him on tne knee. He overbalanced and fell against the cow behind him. She objecteu to this rough treatment and evidently thinking she would lend a helping

hand or rather foot, to the commotion, she kicked poor Dad in the rear, sending him toppling away, vainly trying to regain his lost equilibrium. Mum was not sure whether she should laugh, cry, or dash to the rescue, but poor Dad looked so funny sitting in the yard, wearing a pained expression on his countenance, and with milk streaming down his face and over his clothes, that she just had to laugh. When Distance had kicked Dad the bucket had dropped on to the floor and banged the milk up in the air so that it hit the brim of Dad’s hat and trickled down across his face.