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lads had driven it fairly mad. The crowd that ga- 

 thered on the outside of the fence increased the brute's 

 fierceness. At last they began to cast ropes over its 

 horns, and around its neck, thereby to pull it to a strong- 

 hold, that it might be slain in the place where it was, 

 which drove it to its most desperate fury. Its eyes now 

 glared madness ; there were handfuls of foam flying 

 from its mouth ; with its fore-feet it pawed the ground, 

 throwing up lumps of earth as high as the adjoining 

 houses, and it bellowed so as to make one quake. It 

 was anything but an agreeable sight, so I moved away 

 homewards. But before I got to the foot of the Mound, 

 an alarming shout caused me to look back, when I per- 

 ceived the animal at no great distance behind me coming 

 on with all its rage. I had just time to' spring to the 

 top of the wall that lined the footpath, and to behold its 

 future progress. 



" I shudder at this hour when I think of what imme- 

 diately I saw. Among the people that were near me 

 and in jeopardy, was a young lady, and she wore a red 

 mantle, which is a very offensive colour to many of the 

 brute creation. And as I did, she also made for the 

 wall, but had neither time nor strength to gain its top 

 ere the infuriated animal drove towards her. She turned 

 her back, however, to the inaccessible eminence, as if to see 



