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CRIMINAL ANIMALS 
covered with clothes, as an Irishman on great occasions 
is fond of displaying the resources of his wardrobe, 
and if he has three coats will put them all on.” 
The celebrated “ Whisperer,” an old man named 
Sullivan, who had a strange power of taming vicious 
horses, was sent for. He remained shut up with 
the horse all night, and next day exhibited him on 
the course as quiet as a sheep. He won his race, 
and for three years remained docile. Then he suddenly 
gave way to his criminal instincts, and killed a man, 
for which he was shot. 
But considering the great number of horses on 
training, and the accuracy with which their disposition 
and temper is known, the instances of homicidal 
tendency in the horse are singularly few. It will 
probably be found that bulls, and often cows, are 
responsible for nearly all the deaths deliberately caused 
by animals in this country. It is the fashion to 
laugh at people who are nervous about cattle. This 
is hardly fair or sensible. There can be no two 
opinions as to the power of full-grown cattle to catch 
or kill any person who has not some shelter at hand, 
though the owners who drive them along the roads 
never are willing to admit the possibility. An amusing 
instance of this, as well as of the local jealousies which 
ramble between people of different counties, even if 
only separated by an imaginary border-line, occurred 
to an acquaintance of the writer, just within the border 
of Cornwall where it marches with Devon. A farmer 
was driving cows down a narrow lane, when some foot 
