386 SORROWFUL END. 



cranes remained in the neighbourhood. In this while he 

 paid them divers visits, and not unfrequently returned home 

 bloody, and with his feathers disarranged ; no doubt because 

 he wished to lord it over the other cranes, and to teach 

 them his tricks, to which they were probably averse. The 

 third spring, during the period of migration, he was absent 

 for whole days together. 



" During all this time, however, his friendship for the bull 

 did not cease. It was, moreover, transferred from one bull 

 to the other, when the animals were killed or sold. But at 

 length he was so badly gored by a steer, which he attempted 

 to keep in order, that he shortly afterwards died, to the great 

 regret of every one." 



