JP>         Hello Dan, we were saying ! 

 DC> This is the first I ever heard of her!  
 DC> And, as she was from Massachusetts, she's traitor.   :)

 JP>         Are you ever mixed up ! The chocolate company was bought by
 JP> a    Merikan outfit, years ago. It started as a Canadian one and
 JP> Laura    was a nice Canadian maiden. She overheard some
 JP> conversation between    some Merikan generals and was determined to
 JP> let the Canadian guys    know about the plan. She got through by
 JP> using her milking stool to    prompt her cow on and thus reached
 JP> the Canadian  soldiers. 

 JP>         I wonder what Google can say about this. I only read the
 JP> story    a year or two ago, myself.

this is the top hit on google for '"Laura Secord" milk stool'
(sans the single quotes)...

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/secrd10h.htm

it is probably what everyone reading this exchange has found ;)

i might also mention that the cow isn't mentioned until "SCENE
4_Daybreak on the 23rd June, 1813." in the "drama" (or
story?) that follows the preface in the above (e)book...

)\/(ark