The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-16

started off and away where You
wouldn't know day by night or night
by day, over high hills, low hills. sheep
walks and bullock traces, the Cove or
Cork, and old Tom Fox, with his bugle
horn. There he met the bulls brother
that he killed the day before, and they
set to, and they fought, and the like
of the fight was never seen before or
since They knocked the soft ground
into hard, the hard into soft, the SOFT
into spring wells, the spring wells INTO
rocks, and the rocks into high nils
They fought long, and at last Billy S
bull killed the other and drank ms
blood. And then Billy took out the
napkin out OF the bulls ear again ana
spread il out and eat another hearty
dinner.
Then says the bull to Billy, says he:
1.-THE morrow at u o'clock the brother
of the two bulls / killed-he's mighty
great bull entirely, the strongest OF
them all; he's called the Black Bull or
the Forest, and he'll be too able for me.
When I'm dead" says the bull. you,
Billy, will take with you the napkin,
and you'll never be hungry; and the
stick, and you'll be able to overcome
everything that comes in your way;
and take out your knife and cut strip
off the hide of my back, and another
strip off my belly, and make a belt or
them, and as long as you wear them
you cannot be killed
Billy was very sorry to hear this, but
he got up on the bulls back again, and
they started off and away where you
wouldn't know day by night. or night
by day, over high hills, low hills, sheep
walks and bullock traces, the Cove or
Cork and old Tom Fox with his buSie
horn. And sure enough, at II O'Clock
the next day they met the great Black
Bull of the Forest, and both of the bulls
to it and commenced to fight and the
like of the fight was never seen before
or since; they knocked the soft ground
into hard ground, and the hard ground
into soft, and the soft into spring wells,
the spring wells into rocks, and the
rocks into high hills. And they fought
long, but at length the Black Bull of
the Forest killed Billy Beg's bull and
drank his blood. Billy Beg was so veXed
at this that for two days he sat over
the bull, neither eating nor drinking,
but crying salt tears all the time.
Then he got up and he spread out the
napkin. and ate a very hearty dinner,
for &c was very hungry with his long
fast, and after that he cut a strip OF
the hide off the bulls back and another
off the belly, and made a belt for HIM
self and taking it and the bit of stick
and the napkin, he set out to push his
fortune, and he Travelled for three days
and three nights. till at last he came
to a great gentleman's place. Billy
asked the gentleman if he could give
him employment, and the gentleman
said he wanted just such boy like
him for herding cattle. Billy asked
what cattle would he have to herd, and
what wages would he get. The gentle
man said he had three goats, three
COWS, three horses and three asses that
he fed in an orchard, and that no boy
who ever went with them ever came
back alive, for there We're three broth
ers. giants, that came to milk the cows
and the goats every day and killed the
boy that was herding; so if Billy liked
to try, they wouldn't fix the wages till
they'd see if he would come back alive.
Agreed. then" said Billy. So the
next morning he got up and drove out
the three goats, the thee cows, the
three horses and the three asses 10 the
orchard and commenced TO feed them.
About the middle of the day Billy heard
three terrible roars that shook the ap-
pies off the bushes, shook the horns on
the COWS and made the hair stand up
on Billy's head, and in comes a fright
full big giant with three heads, and be-
gan to threaten Billy.
You're too big" says the giant, for
one bite, and too small for two. What
will l do with your
''Pll fight you" says Billy, says he,
stepping out to him and swinging bit
of stick three times over his head.
when it changed into a sword and gave
him the strength of thousand men be
sides his owp. The giant laughed at
the size of him, and says he William.
how will kill you? Will it be a swing
by the back. a cut of the sword or a
square round of bOXing2
with a swing by the back says
Billy, eff you can" So they both laid
holds and Billy lifted the giant clean
off the ground and fetching him down