02251cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500200014726400510016730000470021833600260026533700260029133800360031750000670035350000310042050800540045152010520050553400710155765300180162865300340164665300270168065300220170765300200172985600660174985600430181599900190185877902UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aDonovan, Laurence,d1885-194811a"Moo-oo-oo-oo!" 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aProduced from the February, 1929 issue of Munsey’s Magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-02-10  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  a"Moo-oo-oo-oo!" by Laurence Donovan is a humorous urban short story written in the late 1920s. It follows a city traffic cop whose shy infatuation with a red-haired motorist turns into an unexpected connection when a runaway cow disrupts a crowded intersection.

Officer James Emmet Corcoran times his day around brief sightings of a young woman in a silky roadster, nursing dreams he’s too humble to voice. One afternoon a crate spills a cow into his intersection, creating chaos he can’t quell—until the woman calmly steps out with a pail and stool, milks the distressed animal, and helps restore order. Corcoran fends off gawkers, tickets a leering chauffeur, and gets traffic moving again. When the cow’s owner reappears, the woman invites Corcoran to carry the brimming pail and see her home. She reveals she’s a recent transplant from the country, weary of city life, and welcomes him in for strawberries and cream, dissolving his class anxieties as their mutual warmth quietly begins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929  aShort stories  aCity and town life -- Fiction  aYoung women -- Fiction  aPolice -- Fiction  aCows -- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1929-02_96_140uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77902  c118622d118622