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are thoroughly tired of your boasting stories, and we know just how brave you are now. If you can't win a cow-fight I'm sure you could never get the better of a bull.'

"'I promise,' said the old horse, 'but you ought to have seen our toreador when the bull was dead and they—'

'"Get up!' I called to the others, 'he is ready for another cow-fight. Down with your horns, my friends!'

"'No, no!' said the old horse, 'I will never talk about it again,' and he never did. But oh dear, my dear, I wish you could have seen us chasing that horse all