New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-10
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ITsmemler once seeing, when 4 lid al school a
Fight between two bulls. Although conId n6e HIVE
forget tbe spectacle. IT happened IN this wiss
Close BIZ The sGhool.honsea very unpretsndinq ade
flee j Was--Tan deep and rapid river Aeiassi Il
| had peen thToHh high wooden bridge, Che band
TalIngso OF which time and 5he winds and The weather
bad entirely destroyed. Tie lands on the opposite
sides Of the stream was owned bv different persons
and farrsd By them respectively. One hrieIt sunas
Tner dayl remember It as If It were vesterdaveia
hour Of noon had arrived and fgolicsOE1g fqIeseek
ing troop OF sehooFboys were lst loose of all honrs
recreation
All at onee the believing ana roaring Of two balls
that had broken ont Of then lneaeeHre % each s
of the river attracted attention The animals
we're not yet in sight Of each other Fuf were q A.
preaching along The highway ~ q rate ~ SPEED
which would ssuse them e meet near the center IL
the high bridge which have described and beneath
which, at sonos thirty feet ran the river between
steep banks. The more dariBEef rs gathered near
the bridge, niHit % see the anticipated eight. We
were not disappointed. Nearer and nearer they ays
preached, the pzoId, paving e9mbatants. Bashsn
never produced tho brotes Of iegeer aspect. They
dashed their sides With their tells they tore the
ground with their feet Questionable they kneefed
az yet they were concealed, each Fom The other by
the ascent to the briage at either eaa
Presently, as theEsimutaneousIy assembled the re-
spectiTe abutments they came full IN sight of each
/ other. The roar was mutual and actually ire.
mendous. Every urshIn of Us spfane into the fields
and ran Finding, however, that we were mot DHF-
ifssHTr
she ieroclous duests, gRite sensiby employed al
some Of their human a1itators Front Il fronf tpfr
horns locked, every muscle strained tbay were fsht
ing as only bulls eau fight 1t seemed an even match
Now one would press back his opponent q few psees
and presently you would hear quick sharp shorE
steps, and nls adversary would be pressed back in
turn. Ine struggling washaTd, was long was savage.
For while neither obtained an adyent8ue
Hitherto they had been pushing each 9fasT 1a+,atl,
wise OF the bridge suddenly they began 20 wheel
and 10 moment were fae5ag each Other es5sswise-
They we're at right angles with the length Of The did
bridge, which shook and sFeaked and rocked again
with their tramping and terrible strife IT vas
the work OF single moment one of the beasts
never could tell Which-oBe Of them however as
if conscious OF his position made violent des.
perate plunge forward, and pressed his Antagonist
hack-back-back till there was but another stem "a
plank behind him-betWeen hiEa and nothingl T4a
moment was one of intense interest to M atveus
spectators. Never was the ampIitheater of Rome
the scene OF more exciting combat. Another step
backward yes the unfortunate bull has been forced
to take il Back he is pressed; and over he g0esl
Such sight never saw probably shall never
see again. Imagine bull pitehed backward over q
bridge, and falling at least thirty feet over and over
He turned once or twice probably / thought be
turned MY times there seemed such confusion Of
horns and feet revolving, flying through the air. But
down he went the water Yves deep, and he dfsap-
peared leaving whirlpool of foam behind him. and
making the river unduate far andwide With the con
Cnssion Of his ponderous bulk.
The other bull did not IaugIl-rnerely because
bulls, as suppose, could not, But we laughed and
shouted our applause. There stood the victor Iod
ing directly down into the abyss below into which
he had hurled his unIucky foe. He stood, however
but moment, and then, if frightened at the pros
/ peCt he began to snort and step backward Back
back, he reiterated, with his head in the same pug
nacious attitude as when in combat, bask--atf
another step back-and over he, too, went on the
opposite side of the bridge, performing lust as many
and as ludcrous somersets as his adversary had dDnf
:, a minute before.
n It was scene to remember, and the perforinaae,
J. called forth immense applause from the group
juvenile amateurs who witnessed IT, In about fvl
:. minutes both bulls might be seen, well sobered b
! their ducking dripping wet scratching np the steep
graveily banks, each on his own side OF the Tivel
!, Those bulls will never fight any more, said bo
two more peaceably disposed bulls than they wer
!. ever afterward, could not have been found.