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their distance, and advancing nearer and nearer,
till they come within such a short distance that
most people think it prudent te leave them, not
choosing to provoke them further.”
Formerly the hunting of a Bull from these wild herds was attended with much ‘‘pomp and circumstance ;” but of late years it has been relinquished, from its danger; and now the keeper shoots them as needed, with the rifle.
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