FIGHT WITH COW
COURAGE AVERTS TRAGEDY HOUR'S DESPERATE STRUGGLE A tragedy was narrowly averted a few days ago by the pluck and endurance of a farmer living between Woodville and the Manawatu Gorge. Walking across a paddock, he was passing a usually quiet cow near the track when she tossed her head and charged Knowing his danger, and the best means of defence, tje seized the cow by the nostrils with one hand and by the horns with the other. After an hour's desperate struggle he was rescued in an exhausted condition by a Power J3oard official. The secret of the cow's vigorous resentment appeared shortly after in the form of a frisky day-old calf at her heels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22499, 17 August 1936, Page 10
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