Major Miles Malony, of Ballydiiff, was amazed one morning to sea from his bedroom window a little lad driving a cow back and forward again and again over a ditch and through a fence on his land. Hurriedly completing his toilet, he rushed out to question the little trespasser. "What are ye after with that cow? Is it to kill the beast, ye want?" "Kill her! Shure, it's to keep her alive I want." "Keep her alive?" " Shure, it's taiching her to get bar own living I am. There isn't a ditch or. fiuee in the barony that'll hould her in afther I've done ivid her." Then the major understood. The cow, in fact, was being taught to trespass in search of her own living.. >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12910, 5 July 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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125Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12910, 5 July 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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