And here's an essay written by an NZ pupil:

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Birds and Beasts

The bird I am going to write about is the Owl. The owl cannot see at all in the day and is blind as a bat at night. I do not know much about the owl so I will go on to the Beast which I am going to choose. It is the Cow. The cow is a mammal and is tame. It has six sides: right, left, fore, back upper and below. At the back it has a tail in which is hanging a bush. With this is sends the flies away so they do not fall in the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so the mouth can be somewhere. They are to butt with. The mouth is to moo with.
Under the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged for milking. When the people milk the cow the milk comes and there is never any end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not leaned but it makes more and more.
The man cow is called the ox. It is not a mammal. The cow dies not eat much but what it eats it eats twice, so it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos and when it doesn't say anything it is because its insides is full of grass.
The cow has a fine sense of smell and you can smell it far away. This is the reason for the fresh air in the country.
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