3 6 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



thirty yards •, when they make another ftand, and again 

 fly off: This they do feveral times, (hortening their dis- 

 tance, and advancing nearer, till they come within ten 

 yards; when moft people think it prudent to leave them, 

 not chufing to provoke them further ; for there is little 

 doubt but in two or three turns they would make an at- 

 tack. 



The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only mo- 

 dern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. • On 

 notice being given, that a wild Bull would be killed on a 

 certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came 

 mounted, and armed with guns, &c. fometimes to the 

 amount of an hundred horfe, and four or five hundred 

 foot, who flood upon walls, or got into trees, while the 

 horfemen rode off the Bull from the reft of the herd, un- 

 til he flood at bay ; when a markfman difmounted and 

 mot. At fome of thefe huntings, twenty or thirty fhots 

 have been fired before he was fubdued. On fuch occa- 

 fions, the bleeding victim grew defperately furious, from 

 the fmarting of his wounds, and the (houts of favage joy 

 that were echoing from every fide : But, from the num- 

 ber of accidents that happened, this dangerous mode has 

 been little pra&ifed of late years ; the park-keeper alone 

 generally mooting them, with a rifled gun, at one (hot. 



When the Cows calve, they hide their calves for a 

 week or ten days in fome fequeftered fituation, and go 

 and fuckle them two or three times a-day. If any per- 

 fon come near the calves, they clap their heads clofe to 

 the ground and lie like a hare in form, to hide them- 

 felves: This is a proof of their native wildnefs, and is 

 corroborated by the following circumftance that happen- 

 ed to the writer of this narrative, who found a hidden 

 calf, two days old > very lean, and very weak :•— On ftrok- 



