The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-12-05
THE BULLS MISTAKE.
UNWlTTINGLY TACKLED 7HE.ciR'
Gus GIANT.
And What Happened to the Brave but
Unfortunate Bovine "Was a-PIenty"
Tossed Through the Air and
Landed in Disused Quarry Pond.

SdIu Tic OIu ClICuS 1idu, yOu Dec III
the papers paragraph headed
Chased by an Infatuated Bull It is a
simple little story, and it always runs
aboat the same:
LAS Farmer Jones Of West Che.
shire was crossing his pasture lot on
Thursday last he was chased by an in
fnriated bull, and it goes on to tel.
how Farmer J6nes barely escaped, and
all that, the bull hooking off the top
rail of the fence just as Farmer Jones
went over it. and so on.
"A simple little story, sure enough;
and one. that we've read hundred
times; but do you know if the news
papers should stop printing it 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 Infatuated bull it has
interested me more still. Is =
I'VE had a pasture lot right next to
the home lot at the shows winter
quarters, and in that pasture lot we
had at one time q bull The home lot
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 aeross
the pasture to "a point down the road,
and just as he'd got pretty near ACROSS
somebody back in the home lot hOllers
out to him:
"'Hey, Lofty! The bull!'
"The bail, down in one cNTner, had
spied the giant making ACROSS the
pasture, and 1T started for him at
once It didn!ttmake any difference to
the buN fuw big the giant was; you
can't scsEe a mad bull.
did the giant start and run away
from lT2 HE tcould have duzre it easy,
but he didn't>stir peg. He just stood
still Till the bull was about ten feet
off him and then he side-stepped just
one step, which was equal to three
steps of an 'ordinary man, and stood
stock still again; and when THE bull
turned around to follow him, and just
as he was ready to spring, the great
giant took him by the horns. :
tie gave the. bull a swing and
swung him eclean off the ground and
up ana around his head and SWUNG
hiHa 30 twice, like a hammer 'thrower
swinging hammer before he throws.
it, and then he launched the bull into
the Hir. And the bull went sailing
over the pasture fence, and over the
road, and over the fence beyond, and
Disappeared!
Butt 1T didn't take long ITO find him.
On that property across the :roadfthere
was an abandoned quarry, that had
been tquarFied out to the depth of
abosat sixty feet and had about ten
feet of water in the hole at the bot
tom, and the bull had dropped into
that quarry; and here he was when we
got over and looked down the sides,
swimming around in the water down
below.
"Well, we got out some of our tent
tackle that had been stoned for the
winter and got the bull cut and put
him back in the pasture lot, where he
IL Ouuu Sdy1y d0 SNCl, "hdI
you caM dlefaated, but not dRmayed;
and he'd have charged ON the giant
again i'm a minute if the giant had set
out to GROSS 1.-THE lot again.
But that was something the giant
never tried ito do. He was a man of
sense, the giant, and he KNEW that it
was domttEnl THE next time he threw
him, whether the bull wsaild come
down i'm as sttft spot as a panl of
water, and he didn't want to fsolrtt the
bull, and $50 the giant and the bull
never met again.
But that 1E,e meeting between them
as you can easily imagine gave me "a
new interest i'm the time-honored little
story that we see in the papers ever
now and then under the heading of
Chased by an 1ufuriated Bull and
every time I read ut II think Of what
happened when. the bull chased not
Farmer Jones, but the. greatest of AM
giants. Chicago Inter Ocean.