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Show AFTER A BULL FIGHT. Removing Carcasses of Horses at the Close of a Day's Sport In Seville. The main features of that barbarous species of entertainment, bo popular with the Bpanlsh race, the bull fight, oro tolerably fumlllar to most newspaper readers, anl are Justly regarded by the more advanced peoples with horror. Hut thero are Incidents connected with this cruel pastlmo thnt are not so widely known. The side scenes of the main show have also a gruesome Interest. The miserable horses fsre worse In tho conflict than do the human brute. The meet repulsive spot tn the Inclosure devoted to bull fighting Is the o-c o-c tiled charnel-house of the horses. In Seville, for Instance, there Is a court-jarU court-jarU to which the badly wounded steeds are dragged and there dispatched. It Is no uncommon thing at the close of a lively day to aeo thero heaps of fifteen to twonty-flva dead horse. Tho carcasses are finally hoisted Into carta with the aid of a windlass, and are then carried away tor burial The mangled bodies nf the poor beasts, the pools and streams nnd odor of blood, the crlea of young vagabonds who gloat over tho spectucle, and tho rough behavior and the oaths of the men engaged In handling the equine remains comblno to form a disgusting soena, which long haunts the memory, Lesllo's Weekly. |