Essay on Cow
CALCUTTA's "The Telegraph" has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at
the recent UPSC examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the
Indian cow:

"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is
female, he give milk, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like
God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together.
Two are beginning and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for
use. More so the milk. What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why 
and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans
and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious
species. Also his other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as
making flat cakes in hand and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that
extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth
whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the
meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horn,
specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby
he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and
instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tails also, but
not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side.
This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohoa body
whereupon he gives hit with it. The palms of his feet are soft unto the
touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by
looking down on the ground and he shouts his eyes like his relatives, the
horse does not do so. This is the cow."

P.S.: We are informed that the candidate passed the exam.

Contributed by Imran Ansari