COW THAT LAUGHED.
OPINION OF MOTOR-TRAINS.
TURNING ROUND TO SAY " BOO."
According to a nursery historian, there was an occasion on which " the little- dog laughed to see such sport." In the Victorian Legislative Assembly recently a member, Mr. Hyland, told of a cow thai laughed. He was criticising motor-trains and one on the MelbourrieLeongatha line in particular, both for slowness and for other reasons, and he said that one cause of delay was the presence of stock straggling over crossings. " The stock do not care for the train," remarked Mr. Hyland. "On Tuesday the chap blew his tin whistle to drive th«> cattle off the line, and one turned round and said ' Boo!' as if that was what it thought of the train." " What happened to the cow ?" asked a member, evidently recalling George Stephenson's remark in the early days of railways that if a cow attempted -to argue with a train it would be " awkward for the coo." " The cow merely laughed at fhc train," said Mr, Hyland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20924, 14 July 1931, Page 7
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