The Columbus journal., 1903-12-09

Every now ana then, yo0 Know.
said the old circus man, you see In
the papers q paragraph headed
Chased by an Infuriated Bull Il II .
simple little story, and It always runs
about the same:
".As Farmer Jones Of West Che
shire was crossing his pasture lot On
Thursday last he was chased BY IN IN
furiated bull,' and It goes on to tell
how Farmer Jones barely escaped, and
al that, the bull hooking on the top
rail Of the fence just as Farmer Jones
went over It, and 80 on.
"A simple little story, sure enough;
and one that we've read . hundred
times: but do you know II the news
papers should stop printing 1t should
miss it greatly? For somehow that
little story has always interested me
very much, and ever since . little ex.
perience that the greatest Of all giants
had once with an infuriated bun It has
interested me more still.
I'VE had pasture lot right next to
the home lot at the shows winter
quarters, and In that pasture lot We
had 1T one time bull. The home lol
and the pasture lot stretched along
from the house alongside road.
"The giant stepped over the fence
between the home lot and the pasture
lot one day to make short cut across
the pasture to q point down the road
and just as he'd got pretty near across
somebody back in the home lot h0llera
out to him:
"'Hey, Lofty! The bull!'
"The bull, down in one corner, had
spied the giant making across the
pasture, and it started for him d
once. It didn't make any difference t.
the bull how big the giant was; you
can't scare q mad bull.
did the giant start and run away
from it? He could have done it easy
but he didn't stir peg. He just stood
still till the bull was about ten fee'
of him and then he side-stepped just
one step, which was equal to three
steps of an ordinary man, and stoot
stock still again; and when the bull
turned around to follow him, and JUS
as he was ready to spring, the grea1
giant took him by the horns.
HE gave the bull . swing ani
swung him clean of the ground ant
up and around his head, and swun(
him so twice, like q hammer throwel
swinging q hammer before he throw
1t, and then he launched the bull int
the air. And the bull went sailin,
over the pasture fence, and over th'
road, and over the fence beyond, ant
disappeared!
But it didn't take long to find him
On that property across the road Their
was an abandoned quarry, that ha'
been quarried out to tie depth o
about sixty feet, and had about tel
feet of water in the hole at the bot
tom, and the bull had dropped int
that quarry; and here he was when VI
got over and looked down the sides
swimming around in the water dow
below.
well, we got out some Of our ten
tackle that had been stored for tn
winter and got the bull out and pu
him back in the pasture lot, where h
frisked around as gayly as ever, wha
you call defeated, but not dismayed
and he'd have charged on the gian
again in a minute II the giant had sc
out to cross the lot again.
But that was something the gian
never tried to do. He was . man q
sense, the giant, aud he knew that
was doubtful the next time he thre'
him, whether the bull would com
down in as soft q spot as q pool Q
water, and he didn't want to hurt tn
bull, and so the giant and the bul
never met again.
But that one meeting between thel
as you can easily imagine gave me
new interest in the time-hon0red littl
story that we see in the papers eve
now and then under the heading q
Chased by an Infuriated Bull an
every time I read it I think Of wha
happened when the bull chased nc
Farmer Jones, but the greatest OF q
giants. Chicago Inter Ocean.