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a Week or ten days in some sequestered situation, 
and go and suckle them two or three times a-day. 
If any person come near the calves, they clap their 
heads close to the ground, and lie like a hare in 
form, to hide themselves. This is a proof of their 
native wildness, and is corroborated by the follow- 
ing circumstance that happened to the writer of this 
narrative, who found a hidden calf, two days old, 
very lean and very weak. On stroking its head, it 
got up, pawed two or three times like an old bull, 
bellowed very loud, stepped back a few steps, and 
bolted at his legs with all its force ; it then began 1 6 
paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as 
before ; but he knowing its intention, and stepping 
aside, it missed him, fell, and was so very weak ' 
that it could not rise, though it made several ef- 
forts : but it had done enough : the whole herd were 
alarmed, and, coming to its rescue, obliged him to 
retire ; for the dams will allow no person to touch 
their calves without attacking them with impetuous 
ferocity. 
When any one happens to be wounded, or is 
grown weak and feeble through age or sickness, the 
rest of the herd set upon it, and gore it to death. 
Mr. Tunstall concludes his remarks by adding, that 
the weight of the oxen is generally from forty to 
fifty stone the four quarters ; that of the cows about 
thirty. The beef is finely marbled, and of excel- 
lent flavour. 
Our savage cattle have been frequently men- 
tioned by historians. It is related, that Robert 
