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wounded by a ball. Lord Ossulton had a narrow 
escape from a bull which had been wounded and se- 
parated from the herd. It attacked him on horse- 
back, and, at the first onset, overthrew and gored 
the horse to death. One of the keepers was also 
tossed, and severely maimed by a wounded bull. 
The other parks where this breed was kept up, 
were at Wallaton in Northamptonshire, Gisburne in 
Craven, Yorkshire, Limehall in Cheshire, Chertlev, 
Staffordshire, Burton - Constable, Yorkshire, and 
Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire. At the two latter places 
they have worn out, or have been destroyed by some 
means, neglect or disease *; and we possess no very 
recent information regarding the stock in the other 
parks. 
The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick re- 
marks, “ was perhaps the only modern 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. and sometimes 
to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five 
hundred foot, who stood upon walls, or got into trees, 
tvhile the horsemen rode olF the hull from the rest of 
the herd, until he stood at hay ; when a marksman 
dismounted, and shot. At some of these huntings, 
twenty or thirty shots have been fired before he was 
subdued. On such occasions the bleeding victim 
_ * The stock at Chillingham was once reduced to a 
single cow in calf. The produce fortunately proved a bull. 
