THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - HOW NOW OLD COW

HOW NOW OLD COW  - Henry C. Stanley was right proud of his cow.  He claimed it was nearly a century old.  Stanley said he got the cow from his great-aunt, a Mrs. Kuntz, of Dublin.  He had the cow for 16 years and his aunt had owned it for a long, long time.  How then could anyone explain how an animal which lives generally to a maximum of twenty-two years, be almost a hundred years old.  The Atlanta Constitution believed Stanley to be an honest man, but this story about a century-old milk cow seems to be a little bit of bull. Atlanta Constitution, May 1, 1889.

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