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 had enough ado to protect their own persons, and we could not help smiling at the dilemma those whose duty it is to send others to jail, and who were, no doubt, for the first time kept in durance vile themselves. After the lapse of nearly an hour, the animal strode slowly and majestically away, though still frowning defiance on his followers. Partly by the cords, and partly by the crowd, his head was turned down Bank's street, the passage to which was immediately closed by several hundreds of our wondering townsmen. When the animal wheeled the people wheeled too, and although the enemy was out of sight, it was easy to guess what was passing from the ebbing or flowing of the human waves that rushed into or out of Bank-street. Near the wood-yards a man got in the way of the furious animal, which immediately bellowed and plunged forward; and had not the pursuer escaped by jinking, it is more than probable tha death would have ensued. At the same spot a dog a perfect hero of its race, made a sudden leap, and seized the bull firmly by the nose which, after standing for an instant aghast shook his head with such violence that the assailant was instantly tossed on high, and whirled or spun like a top in the air. When it fell to the ground, every body thought the animal was killed; but so far from this, the dog immediately resumed its position, indenting its teeth mor firmly than ever, and baffling every effort mad to displace him. This incident maddened th bull to perfect fury; the cords attached to hi