COWBOY GOES TO OXFORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20958, 22 August 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

COWBOY GOES TO OXFORD.

REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION UNIVERSITY ACCENT MASTERED. For the past seven years, all unknown to Oxford, there has been living in quiet retirement at a house in the famous St. Giles Street a real American cowboy straight from the wide-open spaces of Montana!

He is Mr. E. P. Larrabee, formerly of the Brooknook ranch in Medicine Valley, where he achieved fame as a bronchobusting bull-throwing cowpuncher.

The Oxford accent came hard to " E.P." of the Brooknook ranch, but he saw Oxford as a soldier in the course of the war. When he had filled his eyes with its wonders he suddenly tired of the wide open spaces of Montana and made up his mind to settle down amid its spires.

The new-comer's accent unnerved Oxford ; but the man who had ridden fifty miles a day with 3000 head of cattle was not dismayed. Ho cultivated the Oxford accent assiduously, and more, lie studied physiology and gained both his B.A. and his M.A.

The tailor put the finishing touch, and a few weeks ago it was as a highly cultured. resident of Oxford that Mr. E. P. Larrabee escorted his brother, Charles F., who is in the real estate business " out west," round the town.

Mr. Charles Larrabee swept Oxford with a glance and said " Boy! This is some city. I'll say this fair city is the absolute delicatessen !"

Mr. E. P. Larrabee's voice rang with piteous appeal as he said, "Charles! Charles! Remember this is not the Brocknook ranch."