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wounded by a ball. Lord Ossulton had a narrow 

 escape from a bull which had been wounded and se- 

 parated from the herd. It attacked him on horse- 

 back, and, at the first onset, overthrew and gored 

 the horse to death. One of the keepers was also 

 tossed, and severely maimed by a wounded bull. 



The other parks where this breed was kept up, 

 were at Wallaton in Northamptonshire, Gisburne in 

 Craven, Yorkshire, Limehall in Cheshire, Chertley, 

 Staffordshire, Burton - Constable, Yorkshire, and 

 Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire. At the two latter places 

 they have worn out, or have been destroyed by some 

 means, neglect or disease * ; and we possess no very 

 recent information regarding the stock in the other 

 parks. 



The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick re- 

 marks, " was perhaps 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 neighbourhood came 

 mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes 

 to the amount of an 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 

 dismounted, and shot. At some of these huntings, 

 twenty or thirty shots have been fired before he was 

 subdued. On such occasions the bleeding victim 



* The etock at Chillingham was once reduced to a 

 ingle cow in calf. The produce fortunately proved a bull. 



