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...same ailments which harass such a rare beast. Each of Georgia's heads wanted to go in a different direction. Each mooed incessantly. Each tried to butt the other out of the feedbox. Meanwhile, the animal proper did not seem able to eat, walk or cough up its cud, but simply stood disconsolately, enduring violent disturbances of the fourth stomach...
...average length of life of the U.S. people now exceeds 65 years. So declared the ruminant statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. last week after cud-chewing their latest (1944) figures. Corollaries...
Herb's pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
Current Event. In Sedalia, Mo., a cow lost interest in her cud: experimentally bit an electric light cord, abruptly lost interest in everything...
They don't need no band, They keep time by clapping their hand, Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud, When the darkies beat their feet On the Mississippi...