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 head and neck, were immediately torn from the hands that held them, and with one wild and desperate spring he plunged breast-deep into the rolling river, and attempted to gain the opposite side, tossing his head all the while, and making the dog dangle on the surface of the water like a bladder or buoy placed in an eddy. But the cords round his legs completely paralyzed his swimming powers, and in a minute or two he sank and was drowned. At this moment a boat was seen rapidly approaching, but before it arrived, the butchers, by wading almost to the neck, got hold of the cords, drew the body to the side, and conveyed it to Maxwelltown to be blooded and cut up for the use of those who have stomachs so well supplied with the gastric juice that they are able to digest bull-beef.

great national amusement commenced at Lisbon last month, and the Amphitheatre was fully attended.

The first bull afforded little sport; but the second, as soon as the door was opened, rushed in with the utmost fury, pursued the first capinha that attracted his notice, and missed him only by a hair's breadth. A picador on horseback then rode up to him, struck a barbed spear into his neck, broke the shaft and rode off—the bull in the utmost fury pursued him,