Adventures of a Cockney Settler.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 3

Adventures of a Cockney Settler.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Albertland Nonconformist Settlement was celebrated at Port Albert (Auckland) on May 29th, when several of the settlers related their experiences. Mr Little, Paparoa, gave an amusing account of his first handling of a cow. He said ho was a bred cockney. He thought he would like to be a farmer. He got some laud to stan at Paparoa He went to Maugawai to buy a cow, and gave £l3 for one cow worth It's. This was his first esjierieuce in pastoral pursuits. Ho started to drive it home. Coming to a river ho got some flax, made a line, put it on the cow's horns went on the other side and tried to pull it over. He was not strong enough to do so, A friend passing by kindly assisted by touching the cow up behind. The i w polled him into a gully and nearly broke his thigh. Hu was all night in the bush as a con-equei.ee. At the end u. three days he got the cow home. In the course of nature the cow had a call! lie didn’t know what to do with it. H..' wife said she thought it must be kept w.urn, as it kept crying go. They put the calf indoors near the chimney He couldn’t milk; he tried, and tiie uo.s nicked him over, but the little boy milked her. The calf wouldn’t drink the milk, and he had to get a tea.ot and put a leather teat on the spout. To make nu call secure for the night, 1 . put it under his little bun’s bed. lie took tlio cupboard door off its hinges, and i ■cured the calf under the bed. Bali , Hie call bunted the boy our of bed. A neighbour told him to" put Lis finsrer in the calfs mouth, and it would driu<. Another settler passing one dav •aid the calf looked as if he was making too much butter ’ from the cow. Still we aii had to make a beginnin *.