The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-12-03

and commenced poking the bushes to
start out cotton-tails. But alas! for
Mac, there was other game behind the
bushes than that he was seeking. Going
up to large clump, he had no sooner
thrust in his barrel, than up started the
Colonel's Brahma: with name erect and
hanks contradicted, he was perfect mod
ell of fury, and Mac would have soon
been impaled upon his glistening steel
like horns, if the bushes had not inter
vened Turning off in gallop, the
Brahma went tearing around the long
line of bushes to get at Mac, but you
better believe that worthy did not wait
for him; the manner in which he used his
legs would have been creditable to Le-
comptc; he stecred for low thorn tree
situated about the middle of the field,
which was the nearest shelter for him; as
he approached nearer TO it, he perceived
that it was surrounded by low Gordon
of thorn bushes, but glance behind him,
showed very conclusively that it was no
time to swap horses, so pitching into the
bushes, he clumb the thorn tree without
the proffered assistance Of the Brahma's s
horns, which were kindly offered him, and
glance at the prospects before him was
by no means satisfactory. There stood
the Brahma paving the ground, and NUT
tering low belowings, which were the
more frightful from their being different
from any bull bellewings he had ever
| heard.
! The frightful accounts he had heard of
Brahma bulls ferocity in general, and this
ones superiority in this respect, in no
manner tended to calm his fears in regard
to his ultimate safety Too proud to
haloe for assistance from US, until we
were too far off to hear the repeated yell
ings which followed his cooler and calm
after-thought and there being no chance
Of any one passing, by whom he could
send for assistance, his siege bid far to
rival Sebastopol All day he clung on to
the thorn tree, every now and then shifting
his position, and pulling out the innumer-
able th0rns which stuck in his hide AT
length he got so mad that he resolved to
load up and kill the "infernal critter."
Slowly loading his gun, he let off his pent-
up wrath in every imaginable style of
cursing:
"You Internal Asiatic you! You chase
free-born American citizen You red
eyed blazing devil! 1t wouldn't take much
| to make me come down, catch you by your
short tail, and wear you out on the groand;
you blamed new-fangled, Asiatic, hump
shouldered invention
| must, however, as proof of my friends
prudence, say that he did not begin to
come down and put his threats into exc
cution; and furthermore, when he had
loaded up his gun, the idea struck him
that perhaps he had heard mention that
that thar bulls cost, and tra0elieg eX-
penses, exceeded by far the utmost amount
he expected to make in the next ten
years.
Therefore, the idea of shooting him was
laid aside, for the present, and he betook
himself to yelling for help like good
fellow; and the Brahma thinking that he
wished for company, sent him his remain
ing twenty-five dollar pup from the point
of his horns, right into the middle of the
thorn, over his head, and there he stuck
until Mac peked him loose with the muz-
zle of his gun. Following up this coup
de chen, the Brahma made a series of
desperate attempts to get at Mae, but
happily the cheveaur de .frise of thorns
was too much for his shaggy hide, and he
withdrew to short distance and remained
there steadfastly cycling Mac, until the
latter got so enraged, he with difficulty
withheld himself from the temptation OF
blowing his red eyes out. 1t was now
near sunset and we set out for home, and
as we passed Macs old field, zoe acere toe
busily engaged IN singing "WeW be there
| in a tew days." to hear his desperate shouts
Enraged beyond measure at our indifer.
ence to his peril, he took advantage O
Brahma's getting fastened in the briars
and dropping out of the thorn, he put fol
the fence like hot-pressed deer. The
Brahma disengaged himself in time te
arrive at the fence and give him flying
lift, that sent him flying twenty feet ovel
the fence into the soft mud on the othe
side Picking himself up he took coo
bath in the first pond he came to, ant
;, came to the house almost froze, but a
calm and unconcerned as if nothing hat
taken place. To all our repeated question
as to where his game dog and gun were
, he made some evasive answer, and sool
retired to bed, leaving us to make nigh
of it. Any one who has been at a plant
er's house where there was company as
sembled, can imagine the time we had
dancing, singing, courting and cutting u
in general was the order Of the night: an
about twelve we formed in procession an
, with the fiddlers in front, paid Mac visi
: in his room; he received US cooiy-that il
sent two bootjacks and pitcher at ou
\ heads, and then we retired to rest.
Y The next morning, we were up earl,
and as the hunt was to be in chain {
S fields some eight miles of, the discover
# that our horses had all been turned OF
J. during the night aggravated and delaye
n us good deal. and as they could not l.