CRIMINAL ANIMALS 
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passengers remonstrated. “ Don’t ’ee be a-veared, 
m’am,” shouted the owner, “ 'em. be a deal better 
behaved here than 'em be in Devon." In the case of 
the bull, a period of savageness generally occurs once 
or twice in its life, and in the number of fatal gorings 
inflicted by these brutes on the old labourers and 
boys who usually attend on them, a fair case could be 
made out for making compulsory some precautions 
in their transport along public roads. 
