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bitiona of Bull's ability as a mathematician. 

 He had not been forced to learn the multiplica- 

 tion table before he could count correctly, for 

 fear of stunting his brain. Assembling an 

 audience, I would produce Bull from his parlor 

 car, hold him on the palm of my left hand (I 

 am right-handed) and begin the performance 

 by saying, "Bull, count three." The answer 

 would be, "Bloody-now, bloody-now, bloody- 

 now!" Whatever number I told him to count, 

 he would uncomplainingly and correctly do, and 

 he could not be fooled by skipping about among 

 the numbers. He would count just as well for 

 anybody else in the audience, provided he re- 

 mained in my hand. He was a jealous frog. 

 He was a great joy to me, and gave mtich amuse- 

 ment to human beings of his acquaintance ; and 

 really, he knew at least two hundred people in 

 Raleigh. 



I fully proposed teaching Bull much more, 

 so that he could get better acquainted with man- 

 kind ; indeed, I had started him right so that he 

 would know whether or not he was being cheated 

 in the niimber of worms he traded for. He, of 



