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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 5

Cbwiij. are generally regarded as most docile animats, but like tihe prove, tola, worm they sometimes turn (says 1 •southland “Himes”). The other day an I'ndenvood t,armor, M r Thomas Cbek.ram, thought he was doing a sick a kindness by administering medi- • li'iio 'iD it. The cow did not resent the farmers’ attention, and swallowed the draught quite cheerfully. lint their must 'have been something iiiiteimallj disquieting in the dose for when the owner of the .beast returned to hei paddock a few hours later she apparently assumed that lie was the cause f all her abdominal aches. Springing to her feet with an alacrity marvellous for a sick cow she charged Mr Cock•aim and threw him by no means gently through an adjoining fence. Mr Cfockrani had his hands' badly torn and suffered other minor injuries. However, 'ike the bee that dies after it has in dieted its sting, the cow’s act settled her fate, for she was destroyed before doing further damage. . ißy special n--ramremenT. Eeuter a World Service in addition 10 o'her special tources of information, is used in the lompilation of the oversea.? intelliireno nnldished in ihis issue, and all rights therein iu Australia and New Zealand *r» reserved.,