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the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient 

 hunting. On notice being given, that a wild bull would 

 be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neigh- 

 bourhood came mounted and armed with guns, &c., 

 sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four 

 or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls or got into 

 trees, while the horsemen rode off the bull from the rest 

 of the herd until he stood at bay, when a marksman dis- 

 mounted and shot. At some of these huntings twenty 

 or thirty shots have been fired before he was subdued. 

 On these occasions the bleeding victim grew desperately 

 furious, from the smarting of his wounds, and the shouts 

 of savage joy that were echoing from every aide. But 

 from the number of accidents that happened, this danger- 

 ous mode has been little practised of late years, the park- 

 keeper alone generally shooting them with a rifled gun 

 at one shot/' 



This vivid portraiture of a scene, which the writer is 

 pleased to consider grand, does not appear to have much 

 relation to the history of the Genus Bos : it however, 

 exhibits the brutal and ferocious habits of two varieties of 

 Genus Homo, namely Nobility and Mobi\ity two varieties 

 which, although distinguished by some external marks 

 of difference, possess in common many questionable 

 characteristics. 



Culley proceeds : " When the cows calve, they hide 

 their calves for a week or ten days in some sequestered 

 situation, and go and suckle them two or three times a 

 day. If any person come near the calves, they clap 

 their heads close to the ground, and lie like a hare in 

 form, to hide themselves ; this is a proof of their native 

 wildness, and is corroborated by the following circum- 



