A STRANGE SCENE. 



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to confront the bull, he began sneaking around to one side of the rock, with the 

 manifest intention of assailing the brave fellow from the rear. This could be easily 

 done, for the rock was not high, and, while the bull was engaged in fighting his more 

 chivalrous foe, the other could pounce down on his shoulder, and, clinging fast, keep 

 free of his dreaded horns and kill him. 



THE BISON. 



In making this flank movement, the beast approached the side of the rock near- 

 est Dick Brownell, whose sympathies, naturally, were with the bull. The lion did 

 not notice him, the chief cause tor the oversight being his interest in the singular 

 struggle for a dinner. 



" That ain't fair ! " muttered the youth, reading the meaning of the course of the 

 kmg of beasts : " I won't allow anything of the kind." 



