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In the month of November 1915, Constable Scaffington-Calsow of Eddington, Maine, started out on a very routine matter of official business, with a writ of replenish and his pocket to take over a chattel which was involved in a civil lawsuit.

The chattel, specifically, was a heifer, and as he approached the animal, she looked up and... Come on. Come on. Don't run away now. Nobody's going to hurt you. Come on. Let me put this rope around your neck.

Spence field, don't you? Nobody's gonna hurt you now, come here. With a coiness that would have done credit to the shyest of feminine wiles, the heifer edged away from Constable Kelso. Then as he reached out to put the rope around the heifer's neck.

Come on now, that's, see girl. That's it. Here, come back here, turn it. Come back here, come on now, come back here, dear me. Well, that started it. According to the Harris Constable, the heifer ran four miles through a swamp.

Then decided to circuit a mountain the constable grimly hanging onto the chase until... Now, almost... not yet. Oh, get away. Get away. Go on now. Get away. Go on now. A vicious dog held Constable Kelso at bay for two hours while the heifer placidly recovered her breath, protected by the snarling canine.