PETERSFIELD.
A COW IN A SHOE SHOP.—One of those amusing incidents which sometimes occur to arrest attention from business, happened on market day last, and occasioned considerable fun to the bystanders, which took place in the shop of Mr Summers, at the north entrance to the Square, and rivalled the old story of ‟The Bull in the China Shop.” It appears that a countryman was driving two cows into the market for sale, where, just upon its entrance and alongside, one entered the private passage of the Magistrates’ Clerk’s Office, the door being open; and the other, at the same time, the tailoring and drapery department of the above, where, having taken cursory survey of its contents, proceeded onward through a doorway into the ready-made shoe shop, where, from the affinity of leather to the raw hide, or, from some other cause, she quietly came to an anchor with her head over the counter, from behind the same, to the no small consternation and perplexity of the inmates of the establishment as to the best mode of proceeding for ejectment. Here-upon the difficulty was got over by the entrance of a good natured looker-on. who. with the alluring scratch on the rump, and the friendly ‟Come. Colly, come.” they both walked out to her appointed destination, to the great gratification to the inmates in giving space for more profitable customers on the market day.