CHILDREN'S ESSAYS ON LIVE STOCK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 2

CHILDREN'S ESSAYS ON LIVE STOCK.

Some of the ideas propounded by child essayists in the competition organised by the Royal Agricultural Society at Liverpool are of a decidedly humorous turn. The more humorous of the papers submitted by youthful competitors were posted up in a special tent, and a few of the extracts commonly known as "howlers" are printed below: —

The dog, can soften the hardest bone with its hot breath, and make it valuable for eating." ''Some of the cow's food turns to milk and the rest to blood." •?, Th, c ca!ves give us condensed milk."

"The pig gives us sausages." "Pigs do not fly like birds do. Shall 1 tell you why? Because they have got no wings."

The farmers have to be very careful because the hawks suck the* goats' milk."

- iT^ c Pfe'B stomach is often made into bagpipes." "They (the cows.) have got horns to catch the sheep." "The redrskmned cows give us the best milk."

"In foreign countries they (the cows) are also used, for pulling cannons, and when they do not go elephants hit them with their trunks."

"We might think it fine to be a cow but it isn't." '

"If a n pig was thrown intd water it would float easily." "The best horses are -funeral horses and carriage horses next, and then come the marriage horses." "The appearance of the horse is very much like an elephant. "The way they kill young pigs is they get hold cf their front feet and twirl them round and cut their throat."

_ 'A horse should be kept clean from insects and worms, which often walk on them,, and annoy them." • "ft c ock ' if familiar with the stars, is able by crowing to tell men what time of day it is." "The cow, like the human being brings forth children, and with them tney are very precious." "The horse is as tall as a middleaged man."

The baby horse is called a fillet " '/Sometimes the mother hens have chickens to take care of them." "The hen takes a long time to lav an egg," J

' When six months the cock becomes its own master, and his power remains unlimited until he reaches the age of tiir_e years; then if any other gentleman younger than he comes along he will find Ins wives deserting him to go to tne other, and all he can do is to look on quietly and submit." •'One may see huge sides of beef in a butcher s shop that were once the property of cows." "Animals as well as human beings are divided into sects."

-The dogs find the unfortunate creatures that intercept the leaden messengers of death that rush through ?<m, ir sln2mS their own death, cries." Ihe men who own horses are nearly always bad-tempered individuals." 'The male hen is called a cock." The pig, like all other quadruneds. has rour legs." "Of course, everybody has heard of the dog. For the benefit of those who have not, it is a quadruped." "The sow is more useful than the boar when dead. Its feet are useful to chip shops as troters, in a pork shop its cheeks are sold.as pig cheeks, they sell its stomach as pig's belly." "Dogs have helped to form our English literature."

"The skm of the cow makes the best beef tea."