FOUR-FOOTED PRIZE-FIGHTERS. 



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and when the victor was dragged out of the gate, a 

 young girl, who had got a prize in a pantomime, leaned 

 over the balcony and, at the risk of being impaled, 

 crowned the gory brute with her own garland. This 

 Apis was at last vanquished by the Aragon matador 

 Zorilla, who boasted that he had never invoked the aid 



A RELUCTANT TRIUMPHATOR. 



of the chulos nor permitted any beast to reduce him to 

 defensive shifts. 



Such matadors might change their tactics in Burmah, 

 where wild elephants are pitted against horsemen and 

 cornacs (elephant-riders) and often rout their trained rela- 



