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Show LIVES III WOODS FOB THREE DAYS WOMAN FEARS HEALTH INSPECTORS INSPECT-ORS AND TAKES TO FOREST TO SAVE COWS. GUARDS ANIMALS JEALOUSLY Thought Official! Were of Same Dishonest Dis-honest Stripe as Those of Her Native Country Who Proposed to Despoil Her. Now York. To save lier three cows from rapacious olIlclnlH, as nlio thought, Mrs. Agatha Puznr of Jamaica, Queens borough, drove them Into tho woods, and lived there with tho animals, KUnrdliig them Jealously for three nights and days. In her nntlve country thieving ofll-clals ofll-clals robbed I ho timorous peasants ol what they pleased. Mrs. Pnzar, lg norant of Kngllsh, and unahlo to read tho notices sent to her, feared that the Inspectors of the Queens county health hoard wero of the sanio dishonest stripe. Thoy went to Mrs. I'azar's cow stnble on Ilrown avenuo to learn If It was Buultary, and found that It should ho cleaned and a window cut In It. Their presence frightened Mrs. I'azar. As she watched them making notes uho was ceitalu that they were marking her for plunder. They went away, and In a day or two th3 arrival of n hlg euvelopo terrified ter-rified her; had she thought of asking a neighbor to read It bIio would have learned that It only directed tho changes In the stable which she must make. Hat she took It for grantod that tho envelope contained a demand for her little herd by which she supports herself. her-self. So, like a cruel mother who throws her child to pursuing wolves that sfio may cscapo, Mrs. I'azar turned one cow loose, hoping to satisfy satis-fy tho ravenous olllclals. Tho cow wandered into a Held near by, and ate ho much that It died. Tho changes ordered In tho stnhlo wero not made, or course. Another big onvelopo reached Mrs. I'azar a few 4 " 1 v - i ' 8he Faced the Health Officer and Threatened Him with a Club. days later. Slut was beside herself with fear, certain sho was to loso her means of livelihood. "I savo my cows; my cows and I go to tho woods," she said to a neighbor. Taking a stick and a bund I o of food, and wrapping a shawl ovor hor head, .Mrs. I'azar drove hor precious cows to a wood near hor home. Sho let I hem graze only on tho edgo of tho woods, while sho kept guard, watching If any of tho dreaded Inspectors In-spectors approached her homo. Three nights she slept In tho damp, chilly woods beside tho cows, Dr. Thomas II. nudum wont to Mrs, I'azar's stablo tho other day to see If the health department's orders had btum obeyed. Tho Blablo was empty. Dr. Hudinn learned from neighbors where Mrs. I'azar and her cows were. Ho hurried to tho woods, fearing to find her dead from exposure. ex-posure. She, always on the lookout, saw him approach. Heating them, shouting shrilly at the cows, running llko an agile girl, now afier ono. now after another, she drove ihom deepen Into the woods. When Dr. Iludum overtook over-took her Mrs. I'azar faced him, and. brandishing hor stick, stood proparod to defend hor cows with hor life. The doctor could not mako hor understand un-derstand what he said, although ho spoke lo her In four languiiKOs. Finally, by signs he reassured her. She drove the cows bnck to tho stable. Having I ho hardihood of n Kuropean peasant woman who has worked In tho Holds all her life. Mrs. I'azar Buffered little from her stay In tho woods. |