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they approach much nearer, when they make another 
stand, and again gallop off. This they do several times, 
shortening their distance, and advancing nearer till they 
come within a few yards, when most persons consider it 
prudent to leave them, not choosing to provoke them 
further, as it is probable that in a few turns more they 
would make an attack. 
The mode of killing these animals, as was practised a 
few years ago, was the only remnant of the ancient mode 
of hunting that existed in this country. On notice being 
given that a Wild Bull would be killed on a certain day, 
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood assembled, some- 
times to the number of a hundred horsemen, and four or 
five hundred foot, all armed with guns or other weapons. 
Those on foot stood upon the walls, or climbed into trees, 
while the horsemen separated a Bull from the rest of the 
herd, and chased him until he stood at bay, when they 
dismounted and fired. At some of these huntings, 
twenty or thirty shots have been discharged before the 
animal was subdued. On such occasions the bleeding 
victim grew desperately furious from the smarting of 
his wounds, and the shouts of savage joy echoing from 
every side. 
When the Cows calve, they hide their young ones for 
a week or ten days in some sequestered retreat, and go to 
suckle them two or three times in a day. If any person 
comes near one of the calves it crouches close upon the 
ground, and endeavours to hide itself, a proof of the 
native wildness of the animals. In one instance where 
a calf was disturbed, it pawed the ground like an old 
Bull, and attempted to butt with its head, till it fell from 
weakness. It had done enough, however, to raise an 
alarm, and the whole herd came to its rescue, compelling 
the intruder to decamp : for the dams will allow no one 
to touch their young without attacking him" with impe- 
tuosity. In the Duke of Hamilton's park, in the summer 
of 1841, a calf, which was disturbed by the passing of 
a carriage near it, bellowed so fearfully as to rouse the 
whole herd, though they were at a considerable distance. 
