SWALLOWED THE PLANS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143786, 9 May 1912, Page 5

SWALLOWED THE PLANS.

A RELIGIOUSLY-INCLINED COTV

There is a cow at Parkes (N. 5.11.) who is absolutely wasting her time—as a cow. She should have been an ostrich. Anyhow, she’s about the champion cow ill Australia at the present time, and her owner is prepared to baok her against any other cow—all in. “All in” is tho particular point about the Parkes cow. She nearly ate the Methodist Church for breakfast recently. At least, she would have eaten it if it bad been built, and as evidence of her intention she swallowed the plans, and calmly washed them down, as it were, with part of the builder’s stock-in-trade, in the shape of a folded three-foot rule and a leaden plumb-bob weighing about 21b, She’s got them “all in.” There arc cows and cows, and if cows can think, this one has evidently been thinking for a long time that to erect a Methodist Church in Parkes would be a mistake. She possibly bad some atheistic strain in one of her previous incarnations, or, in the inverse ratio, wanted to get as near religion as she could.

The main result of her feat is that the building of tho church has had to bo stopped because there are uo plans left for the workmen to go by. The builders havo considered two questions—firstly, that of killing the cow, and secondly, that of getting fresh plans, drawn. Tho only objector to tho first idea was the cow’s proprietor, who thought that an animal that could do things of that sort Was far too valuable to be killed. So duplicate plans will have to bo got out. The workmen who witnessed tho beast’s fell act were so surprised that they could not get near enough to her to rescue tho plans, which were laid out on the grass with the plumb-hob on them to keep tho wind from blowing them away.