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the smoke of his piece. The bull seems to have little 

 faculty of judging the position of an enemy by sound, 

 unless the sound is very close. 



The cows are extremely difficult to bay, being exces- 

 sively timid, and hiding in the densest thicket at the first 

 symptom of danger. If caught feeding and mortally 

 wounded, a cow will generally manage to get into the 

 thicket and elude her pursuer. Nothing but his ap- 

 proach to the hiding place of her very young calf will 

 cause the mother to stand and show fight to her arch 

 enemy man. 



There is an old army story to the effect that, when 

 General Taylor's little army was on the march from 

 Corpus Christi to Matamoras, a soldier on the flank of 

 the column came upon and fired at a bull. The bull 

 immediately charged, and the soldier, taking to his heels, 

 ran into the column. The bull, undaunted by the num- 

 bers of enemies, charged headlong, scattering several 

 regiments like chaff, and finally escaped unhurt, having 

 demoralised and put to flight an army which a few days 

 after covered itself with glory by victoriously encounter- 

 ing five times its numbers of human enemies. 



Twenty-five years ago a friend and classmate (long 

 since gone to ' that bourne ') was stationed at a post in 

 Texas. He was a bright, intelligent, rollicking, roystering 

 blade, full of kindly feeling, and honourable in all his 

 instincts ; but so given to practical jokes, or ' fun,' as he 

 called it, that he was cordially hated by many of his 

 associates, and was a terror even to the friends who 

 appreciated the worth hidden under all his curious 

 foolishness. 



This officer was visited by a cousin of his, a young 

 gentleman of good presence and manners, who was not 

 only a graduate of an institution of learning in the 

 ' Mother of Presidents,' but had received his diploma as 

 a M.D. from a medical college in Philadelphia. In 

 spite of his education, the young gentleman, though an 



