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from Stephen Howard contains these words:

Saw the farm manager this evening - they've found the calves.
They'd wandered a mile or so up the road and some kindly person herded
them into a convenient field and locked them in.
Unfortunately they neglected to tell anyone - which turned out to be a
bit of a surprise for the landowner, who arrived back from a weekend
break to find he'd inherited ten cows.

Apparently this sort of thing is quite common in rural communities -

It is. Very often, whoever stops to get the stock off the road before
there's an accident, just doesn't know who the animals or borrowed field
belongs to. Sometimes, even if the Samaritan *does* know whose stock
they have just parked on whose land without permission, modest silence
may be a sensible option :-)

Janet.