County Fair Judges Blown Away By Heifer

ELLENDALE, ND—Dickey County Fair livestock judge Bernard Hodelnutt called a heifer named Bessany “the sort of near-divine creation that inspired Zeus Himself to appear in the form of an amorous bull.” “In all my years of cattle judging, I have never beheld such bovine perfection,” said Hodelnutt, 52, who first encountered the 2-year-old Brown Swiss at the fairground’s stock pavilion Sunday. “My fellow judges and I agree that we are unworthy of assaying such transcendent cowflesh. Our paltry ribbons and trinkets make meager tribute to this demigoddess, who should assume her place beside mighty Taurus in the heavens.” After viewing the animal, Hodelnutt and the other judges cast their rating books and badges into a vat of boiling funnel cakes and cut out their own eyes lest they be fouled by the sight of less graceful beasts.