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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 to 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.
