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all the fury of the storm^ he sent forth^ every in- 

 stant, a yell of terror hideous beyond description. 

 Imagining that it was the lightning that chiefly 

 alarmed the animal, the farmer proposed to the men- 

 servants to go and remove him into the barn, but 

 in vain : they were so much terrified at their 

 own danger, that the roarings of the bull made no 

 impression upon them, nor could any of them be 

 persuaded to move. The farmer's brother, who is 

 a humane, generous young man, undertook the task, 

 facing at once the double danger of the lightning 

 and the fury of the bull. He accordingly put on 

 his great-coat, and went into the yard. The mo- 

 ment he approached the bull, which he found lying, 

 trembling, on his back, having almost torn his chain 

 through the gristle of his nose in his efforts to get 

 loose, he rose, and, by his fawning actions, express- 

 ed the delight he felt at the sight of any thing hu- 

 man amidst such a scene of terror. Fear had dis- 

 aniied him of his ferocity : with the utmost quiet- 

 ness he suffered himself to be untied and led to the 

 barn, by the very man whom, a few hours before, 

 he would have torn in pieces if he could have got at 

 him. 



The next morning, as his deliverer was cross- 

 ing the yard, he remarked that the bull, which 

 had been replaced in his shed, no longer saluted 



