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Singular hardihood and sufferings of a BulL 



Read April 12, 1814. 



Upper Merion, Montgomery Co, 

 February 3dy 1814, 



Dear Sir, 



As your society are preparing matter for a book of 

 information and facts, for farmers ; perhaps the follow- 

 ing occurrence may be somewhat interesting to its 

 readers. 



On the morning of the 21st of July, 1811, A bull, 

 belonging to my brother William, was missing out of 

 the pasture field. — Search was made for him through- 

 out the neighbourhood, but all to no purpose. — And, 

 — astonishing to relate ; — on the 14th of August fol- 

 lowing, he was found alive, by some boys, in the same 

 field he was missing from. He had fallen into a lime 

 stone sink, from eight to ten feet deep ; in which situ- 

 ation he lay twenty four days ; without any thing to 

 subsist on but the air. — And, what still added to his 

 sufferings, he lay on the north side of the hole ; and 

 was exposed to the hot rays of the sun, for at least 

 eight hours in the day. I was present when he was 

 taken out of his solitary confinement. The lower part 

 of his belly and hind parts were completely mired. 

 Nearly all the hair, and part of the hide, came off; 

 when exposed to the air. When he was first taken out, 

 he could not stand, without support ; being almost no- 

 thing but a skeleton. A bucket of water was put be- 

 fore him, but he drank very sparingly ; not exceeding 



