The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

THI Novecters' BCLL.—The principal attributes of
the novel bull appear to be these :—A great taste for
stamping' bellowing, staring, lashing himself with his
tail, sod digging up the turf with his bores ; all kite to
nature, doubtless, but still rather wearying on the tenth
or twentieth recital. Then good nature sod forbear-
ance are very strung pointa of Ins, for he never really
hurts the lady after all. He's only in fun. A careful
study of the novel bull has leisured .ne of this (set, that
he never makes his rush till the lady has got to the
gate. Still, further, he never hurta the lover. He
makes rushee at Lim, he'sbunia on Ids hat, sometimes
sends his horus through his coat, hut hurt him I not
for the smiles of all the cows in England. Like the
lion that will not touch the true prince, the novel bull
will not touch the true lover. He is "sue reliant as
Hercules—but beware instinct." Hurt the true lover!
He would die Erst, as did his groat ancestor, who
founded the family. Yes, flat bull that ran at Lucy
Ashton and was shot by Edgar Ravenswood, in dying
gave life to hundreds. It would be impossible to name
half his descendants. Sometimes they appear in herds ;
sometimes singly ; sometimes you have both the single
hull and the herd. But however, or whenever, the
novel bull appears, it is for a good purpose; to show
the daring of the true lover, or the cowardice of the
false; to excite the affection of the lady, or the
gratitude of the parent. How bad soever things may
look, let the bull once show his face and they are sure
to mend. Oh I heroei and heroines, fear him opt for
the future. Though his bellow inaysound very harsh,
is in reality " an amiable low., Bless the bull.
All the novelists that ever made use of him, and their
name is Legion, ought to subscribe and raise a statue
to him. Is wield look well in Trafalgar-equare, and
should stand near Jenner'a. People would think it had
souse reference to vaccination. Bless that bull ! lii
bow many love affairs has be not &Ashdod? How many
stern parenta has he not softtned ? Oh, yes ! If yea
see in love with Virgo the Virgin, pray for the aid el
Thant the Hon.—Owe a Week.

" HATZ TOO LOOT SUCH • THING £5 • Finnan I"
" You don't happen to have lost such • thing es
finger?" said a certain boy in the employment of the
Zoological Society. arriving at the house of a gentleman
to whom lie had been sent to mako the above remark-
able inquiry. The gentleman's hand was bound up, and
lie made answer tothe boy : "Yes, I have ; and you may
go back to your master and tell him that if be has
found it he may put it in spirits, and keep it as a
warning to otheis not to act an foolishly as I have
done." "I had observed the gentleman often enough,"
sail the imperintendant, describing the circumstances
to the four travellers who had placed themselves under
his guidance, "1 bad observed him, and often warned
him that to play with the beam, as he was in the
habit of doing when lie came here, was very dangerous ,••
for he would put his band into the cage and tease
them, and play with them as if they were tom eats.
One day I came to the cage here, and saw lying just
outside it • human Anger, with the tenden hanging to.
it in a long strip. 'lt's that gentleman's finger,' I said,'
and he's gone away without saying a word, for he used
to make light of my warnings, and would tell me that
he knew all about it, and was not afraid • bit.' And
the finger was his, sure enough.' Thin curious ease
was not an insolated one. On another occasion, a
anger, with the stretched tenden hanging to it In the
same way, was found outside of the den of the wolves.
People will have the temerity to run these foolish
risks, and then go away, ashamed, even in the midst
of their pain, to own what their rashness has ended in.
—Dictraa's All Ike rear Rooted.
How TO GET OX IX THE WORLD.—On Tuesday
evening, at the Useful Knoaledg• Society, Greenwich,
Mr. John De Praise delivered the third lecture of the
present !series, taking for his subject the shove same-
, what, striking title. hr. De Frahm mid that first of all
Any most have a character. Charseter was worlb
,Awpre than reputation ; the former !staid bear any
therning blasts of temptation ; Intl the latter might be
fainted by the world's calumny ; üballicter war wont,
and worth made the man. Garibaldi in lils red shirt on
the lone rocks of Italy was .braver—nobler—more
kingly, than the craven monarch of Naples, ensalving
• people and cursing • fair nation. fUlallre4 'then
. they intuit work. Some young men tallied *at lack.
Good look was to get up at sia o'olegle in lb& uttirbing
—good luck, if you had only • shilling • week, was to
live upon elevenpence and save aptneo—itood, lack was
to trouble your heads with your owes business and to
let your neighbour's siona—good Inch was to fulfil the
commandments, and do unto other peeple as we
wished them to do unto us. They must not only work,
but wait. They most plod and persevere. Pete, mist
be taken care of, because they were the semis of meineas.
To get on in the wodd, they must take sans of home,
sweep their own doorways clean, try and help other
people, avoid teniptations, and hare faith in truth and
God. Mr. Ihs Frame dwelt at length upon each of the
topics, and throughout his address was warmly cheered
by a crowded audience.

A GLoomr Picruse.—A February night, sharp and
bitter. An iron grey inlet -below —a spectral melancholy
moon above. I had to ascend the Abbey kill by • steep
blind lane between high walls. I pealed through
stately gates, which stood wide open, into the garden•
ground that surrounded the old abbot's house. At the
end of • short carriage drive, the dark and gloomy
building cleared itself from leafless skeleton trees, the
moon resting keen and oold on Its abrupt gables and
lofty chimney-stack.. An old woman !anent received
me at the door, and, without saying • word, led me
through a long low hall, and up dreary oak stairs, to •
broad lending, at which she paused for a moment
listening. Round and about hall, staircase, and landing
were ranged the dead specimens of the savage world
which it had been the pride of the uaturaliat's life to
collect Close where I stood yawned the open jaws o
the fell anaconda, its lower coils hid, as they rested on
the floor below, by the winding of the massive stain.
Against the dull wainscoat walls were !enchant CIIMNI
stored with grotesque unfamiliar mummies, seen im-
perfectly by the moon that shot through the winderw-
panes, and the eandle in the old woman's hand. And
as now she turned towards me, nodding bet signal to
follow, and went up the shadowy passage, rows of
&gentle birds—ibis and vulture, and huge sea 'lemons—
glared at in. in the false life of their angry eyes.— Sir
E. B. Lytton in Ai/ the Year Round.

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