Show Eating a living Ox Only the very few among us run any risk in the course of our peregrinations and vicissitudes of being invited to such objectionable dinners as it was the lot of f Bruce the explorer to eat Such very j nasty feeders as the Abyssinians of his day are becoming extinct Fancy sitting down to table and seeing the meat walk alive into the room That was their custom cus-tom And they ate it alive too the brutes I The wretched ox was tied fast head and legs and then by a delicate incision on both sides of the backbone near the haunches the attendants were able to strip its skin away to enable them to cut slices from the poor animal again and again without touching an artery The guests ate the meat raw and quivering to the music of the lower roars and bellowing of pain ofthe ox of which it was a part This is hideous and even the least particular par-ticular of men maybe excused for shirking an experience of the kindAll the Year Round |