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Essay Written by a 10 Year Old Evacuee

Published in Issue 46

The cow is a mammal. It has six sides, right, left, an upper and below. At the back it has a tail, on which hangs a brush. With this it sends flies away so that they do not fall into the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with, and the mouth is to moo with. It is arranged for milking. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end to the supply. How the cow does I have not yet realized but it makes more and more.

The cow has a fine sense of smell, one can smell it far away. This is the reason for the fresh air in the country.

The man cow is called an ox. It is not a mamal. The cow dos not eat much but what it eats it eats twice so that it gets enough, When it is hungry it moos and when it says nothing it is because its inside is all full up with grass.

Source Notes:

This delightful description of a cow was first broadcast at the end of the BBC nine o’clock news on the 29th October 1939.
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