The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-10-07
NEARLY A HORN TOO MUCH.

Mr.. ]. Stanley Smith, editor Of the Auburn
American, gives the following amusing ac-
count Of his chase by and escape from saw
age bull, during a recent visit to farm in
ne neighborhood Of Auburn, to witness a
trial Of mowers:
That bull was one of them. " lie was
monarch" Of all he could eat, chase or gore.
Being deeply interested in the apple crop, we
wandered out of the field in which the mowing
was going on. into friend Shotwelss orchard.
Fat and handsome blooded cows were lying
about, chewing their cu,ls. and utterly ndlt-
ferent as 10 What was going On. We wan
dered on from tree to tree, in the large mr.
ctard, and while critically examining some
very fine Lacking fruit, were suddenly and
rather unpleasantly startled lrnm our train
81 thought by the believing Of Mr.. Taurus,
whose majesty had been reclining, and Of
whuse august presence We were unaware.
He elevated his tail. made the earthly fly with
his lawful paws" and having thus manIirs-
;ed his hostility, and given tore, Il not color
to his idea that we were all nterl"pcr, made
a plunge towards Us. A moments view OF
our antagonist was just about enough. His
ewes flashed fire. tie rnared like " bull II
Bashan.' We did mt at III fancy the STYLE
81 his horns. They were as straight AZ need
les, and about as sharp. He eShb'tr,la an un-
mi,takable desire to employ them upon Us.
Knowing that il was expected al u 10 re-
purt the test trial going on in another held,
We remembered tie prlur and pressing lnte-
rests Of our friends, aud >et up smart run.
So did Mr.. Bull! We scsmpereh. He
scampered. llr made better time" than
we could !" BOTTOM out" He gained on Us
rapidly. We could almost feel his hot
breath on the back Of our neck. IL was
neck or nothing. Rail fence twenty rods oif.
l}uIl within FIVE rods. Tight race No
bets Bull in high spirits Give up for a
:. goner!" NJ such thing Friendly apple
tree, with law branches. Glutched twn
Of them. and lifted nur preeiaas body inin
the tree Taurus arrived just ~ We cleared
the ground Paved aud reared horribly
Taurus did We attempted T. reason with
him. n, sort of u.s.. lie was obstinate aud
had &c hssrt. E.iisntly a great scamp.
We eyed him. lie eyed Us. Good sight In
both OF Us. Being 10 the newspaper line, Mr
are 10 favor Of The earliest publications al
important news, bnt We confess that the
Bullet IN contemplated On this occasion,
shocked nur sense 81 prnpriety. And ttr
fact that We were freed, illustrated our antipa.
i thy 10 raeticing tie popular feat oi taking
the bull by The hnrus." ~ tits case il would
assuredly have been :" horn loo much"
Our enemy paved around the tree, bel.
lowed after the manner Ut :. Buanarges, tht
Son of rhnndPr:" glarr,l AZ ~. aud finally
turned AMI wandered of the distance 81
about three tees. Thinking III was right
we slid down hcrbicallv. aud put for III,
crazy uldr rail fence. rnr distance lrrn tree
10 Bull. aud from irPa IL fence was just about
an even thing. Bot our assaiani saw the
movement, anI At once again tie case wa
h"i one. But this time we disianccd
the "hnrned critter," aud sealing the icace
landed 10 field IL rye at abnat the sam,
moment that our pur.Oef's Iern's struck The
top rails IT the i.nre, aud ,rnt them living.
Separated by the fence, wP read the .cauhdrel
q lecture flat we hope he will remember 1,
his la.t moments. We made all due allow.
asce To- III. case lar the hubbab ~ the moving
and rraping .nar, but, nevertheless, con.
Guided that be was great scamp.