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stop. The bull was gay and started in a trot, 

 and the man, feeling the halter loose, hurried 

 on without ever looking back. Another stable 

 boy seeing this called to him to look out or the 

 bull would run away with him and drag him. 

 Just as he spoke the bull started off, got the 

 rope wrapped about the man, knocked him off 

 his feet, and after dragging him a little way 

 made two or three playful passes at him with 

 his budding horns, frightening and enraging 

 the man, who became very violent. Help came 

 in time to keep either party from doing any 

 damage of a serious sort, and the bull being 

 carefully watched and handled never offered 

 afterwards the least violence to his keepers. 

 A little violence on the part of the rescued 

 keeper might have begun a life of dread and 

 retaliation on the part of the bull. 



Believing, then, that the temper of a bull is 

 thus so largely dependent on keep and care, I 

 am not inclined to say that it is dangerous and 

 undesirable ever to breed to a vicious or bad- 

 tempered bull. Though, of course, in some of 

 the small breeds it is more likely that the tem- 

 per is transmitted, but among them so few are 

 other than dangerous that it would be almost 

 impossible to follow such advice were it to be 

 given. Nevertheless, other things being equal, 

 I should always choose a gentle bull to breed 

 to. Of course here I speak only as regards the 



