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 towards the ſpot where Tommy and his aſſociates ſtood, and put them to flight; but the bull was too ſwift for them, and Tommy ſtumbling and fading to the ground, lay directly in the way of his purſuing enemy!-Harry then catched up a prong, which had been dropped by one of the fugitives, and at the very inſtant the bull was ſtooping to revenge himſelf on the defenceleſs Tommy, he gave him a deep wound in the flank. The animal turned round, and it is probable that his life would have paid for the ſalvation of his friend, had not the generous black, to whom he had juſt before given ſixpence, inſtantly fled to his aſſiſtance. With a large ſtick he had in his hand, he gave the bull ſo violent a blow as called off his attention from Harry. He inſtantly turned round to his new enemy, who dexterouſly ſhifted from him, and got hold of his tail, by which he held faſt, and ſo belaboured the bull with his ſtick, that he was at laſt obliged to lie down, when they threw a rope over his horns, and faſtened him to a tree.

T next day Tommy roſe before his father and mother; and, as his mind was