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of transfer from carts to truck is a serious one. They 

 are often placed in a pig-yard in districts where there is 

 much demand for their transport, and { driven on board.' 

 Recently the writer found the staff of a station on a 

 Western line of railway dispersed in various directions 

 up and down the line, equipped with lanterns, and in 

 pursuit of seven pigs which had escaped from a truck. 

 It is to the credit of the porters that all of the truants 

 were caught except one, who met his death by collision 

 with an 'up express.' 



This incident may be compared with the adventures 

 of a pedigree bull despatched early this summer to the 

 Isle of Wight. The animal was shipped at Ports- 

 mouth in one of the small sailing boats which still 

 play the part of carriers' vans between the mainland 

 and the island. The bull was in charge of a man, 

 who held it by a chain fastened to a ring in its nose. 

 When half way across the Solent the chain broke, 

 and the bull was loose in this open lugger, with four 

 or five passengers, trusses of hay, luggage, potato- 

 casks, and the rest of the assorted cargo. Fortunately, 

 it was an imaginative bull ; the man in charge fastened 

 a piece of string to the ring, jerked it, and the bull, 

 which was showing a disposition to walk about the 

 boat, became submissive, under the impression that he 

 was still chained. 



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