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follows : — first the leader, then the animal, 

 and behind another hunter bearing such a 

 press and weight on the bull as to keep him 

 from charging in front, or performing any 

 other eccentric movement. The partial con- 

 finement of one leg, together with the ex- 

 haustion produced by such a hot gallop, made 

 the bull submit to his fate with a sullen 

 resignation. Not so the black cow ; she was 

 thin and in good running condition, and 

 as they had not tied her leg up she was erect 

 and looked like a great black spider in the 

 centre of a net, as there were half a dozen 

 lassos at least diverging from her to the 

 horses' tails. No person would approach her, 

 and they did not seem to know the process 

 used in South America on like occasions. 

 The way is, to lasso the animal over the 

 hind-quarters, and making it move, get the 

 hind-legs within the noose of the lasso ; when 

 riding off at a sharp gallop will throw the 

 animal a heavy fall. The cow was thrown 

 with great violence, and a hind-leg tied to 

 her single horn and broken stump before she 

 had recovered from her second fall ; she was 

 also tetliered to a horse's tail, and an Indian 

 behind her, keeping her back ; her leg was 

 then just so far liberated as to allow her 



