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er seeing the danger, tossed a pitch fork to his 

 comrade, which the animal threw aside like a 

 straw. A person then ran to alarm Mr. CROSS, 

 who hurried down stairs, and catching up a 

 shovel, struck the animal violently on the head, 

 and suddenly seizing the prostrated man, 

 dragged him from the den, and thus saved his 

 life. 



By active remedies, the symptoms of insanity 

 were for a time abated, but they seemed to have 

 increased upon him in duration in each succeed- 

 ing year, until the year 1827, when one day at 

 the latter end of February, wholly unprovoked, 

 he made a most desperate rush at the front of his 

 den, and so weakened the security of it, as not 

 only to threaten his immediate escape, but 

 by the repeated lunges he made, he incurred the 

 risk of breaking down the other parts of the buil- 

 ding in which the ferocious animals were secured 

 and of thus endangering the whole neighbourhood. 

 Mr. Cross, therefore very painfully to himself, 

 (for independently of the great value of the animal, 

 he was much attached to him) determined that be 

 should be destroyed. At this period, his eyes 

 glared like lenses of glass, reflecting a red and 

 burning light ; and from his furious actions, and 

 great bulk, (being nearly five ton,) all pressing 

 against a very insecure confinement, every thing" 

 was to be apprehended so long as his life was con- 

 tinued Very active poisons, in disguise were 



