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off with equal speed, but not to the same distance/ 
forming a shorter circle ; and again returning with 
a bolder and more threatening aspect than before, 
they approach much nearer, probably within thirty 
yards ; when they make another stand, and again 
fiy off. This they do several times, shortening 
their distance, and advancing nearer, till they Come 
within ten yards ; when most people think it pru- 
dent to leave them, not choosing to provoke then! 
further ; for there is little doubt but in two or three 
turns they would make an attack; 
The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only 
modern remains of the grandeur of antient hunting. 
On notice being given that a wild bull would be 
killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neigh- 
bourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. 
sometimes to the number of a hundred horse, and 
four or five hundred foot, who stood upon the walls, 
or climbed into trees, while the horsemen rode off 
the bull from the rest of the herd, until he stood at 
bay ; when a marksmaU dismounted and shot. At 
some of these huntings, twenty or thirty shots have 
been fired before he was subdued. On such oc- 
casions, the bleeding victim grew desperately fu- 
rious, from the smarting of his wounds, and the 
shouts of savage joy that were echoing from every 
side : but from the number of accidents that hap- 
pened, this dangerous mode has been little prac- 
tised of late years ; the park-keeper alone generally 
shooting them with a rifle gun at one shot. 
When the cows calve, they hide their offspring for 
