AN AWKWARD CONSCIENCE.
"Woomera" tells the following cow yarn in the Australasian': ' "That cow, me dear man," said the seller, "that cow is the behst I ever sat under, and I'm milking now this thirty year. I wouldn't think of parting >vid her only I'm short ay a little ready money." Still the buyer hesitated, and he consulted a friend, who said he thought the animal had a blind teat. The seller, after being treated to ai pint, was adjured. "Now, tell me the truth;. lam buying 1 for a friend. Is that cow all right?" "I'm after telling ye that I niver sat under,.ai better cow this thirty year. Blind teat, indade.* , She's givin' me tin,'pounds''of butter ai wake," There •was another ' adjournment, and" another consultation with another friend, who supported the suggestion: of a blind teat. "Come, now, tell the truth; 'is that cow' sound? It's for the nuns I'm buying her." "For the nuns, is it. , Why didn't ye say that b'Soo uojt tib vi TCBamui^ipaji^ ei\% jo mo;;oq ■&!s>■ of UAvbp: uasq SBt[; before? Lave her there, man, she" have three blind teats."
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9618, 21 April 1900, Page 4
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187AN AWKWARD CONSCIENCE. Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9618, 21 April 1900, Page 4
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