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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 31, 



sound at which her heart stood still. It 

 was the mumbling bellow and gnint of 

 an angry bull. The sound carae from 

 just beyond a grove which hid from view 

 a turn in the road. She swung around 

 and sped like a bird for the little white 

 gate. A moment later Farmer Hopkins' 

 bull came trotting around the turn and 

 at once espied the fleeing girl. Unfor- 

 tunately she carried a crimson silk para- 

 sol, which acted on the bull as a red flag 

 does in Spanish bull-fights. She thought 

 of this in the midst of her flight, and let- 

 ting go her hold of the parasol, it soared 

 for a little in the air and then descended 

 in the middle of the road just ahead of 

 the bull. It diverted his attention for a 

 moment, while he rent it in pieces aud 

 trampled it under his feet. As Nannie 

 seized the latch of the gate she gave one 

 wild glance behiud her. The bull had 

 just completed the destruction of the 

 parasol, and was again thundering at 

 her heels. 



Rushing through the gate she slammed 

 it behind her, but it did not latch. It 

 swung a little way open. Not daring to 

 go back and fasten it, she sped along, 

 and there not being time enough to 

 reach the house, she tied aside, darted 

 between the bee-hives and the pea rows, 

 and rushed down between the clumps of 

 currant bushes. Just as the bull, having 

 wrenched the little gate from its hinges 

 and tossed it contempuously over his 

 shoulder, plunged into the garden, Nan- 

 nie tripped on her skirt and fell head- 

 long between the bushes. 



The fall saved her. The bull would 

 certainly have caught sight of her flying 

 garments, but she was quite hid from 

 his view. She had the presence of mind 

 to realize this, and to crouch down in 

 the smallest space that would contain 

 her. Here, through the pea-sticks and 

 vines and weeds, she could see her pur- 

 suer standing in the flower-bed by the 

 path and staring in fierce uncertainly 

 around the apparently deserted garden. 

 Presently, after tearing up a clump of 

 dahlias, the bull trotted over before the 

 bee-hives. The bees were out in great 

 force that afternoon. The fronts of 

 some of the hives were black with them, 

 and they hung in clusters and knots try- 

 ing to cool themselves. The bull halted 

 just before one of the largest colonies. 

 He was hot and the bees did not enjoy 

 his presence. As they buzzed angrily 

 about bis head, he shook his ears, then 

 dug his horns into the ground and threw 

 a shower of earth over the nearest hive. 

 The bees took this as a challenge and 

 were not slow to accept it. He felt sev- 

 eral hot stings in his ears, and lowering 

 his horns again with a grunt of indigna- 

 tion, he threw another shower of earth. 

 Then the bees began to cover his hide 

 and riddle it with their stings. They 

 thrust venomously at his eyes, his ears, 

 and his nostrils, till he was mad with 

 pain. 



The astonished animal switched his 

 tail, skipped about with short bellowings 

 of rage and threatening, and rooted his 

 smarting nose in the soft earth. Bees 

 were a new experience with him. But 

 he was not long in connecting them with 

 the white hive that so boldly confronted 

 him. He would crush it and destroy his 

 tormentors. Throwing his heels high in 

 air, the bull launched himself on the 

 bee-hive. Over it went with a dull crash, 

 and in a black cloud out came the bees. 

 The bull felt a myriad of little flames 

 descend upon him scorchingly, but with 

 quivering skin he endured them for a 



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