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Show ,fl journal Never Eelinquishes His Bulldog Bull-dog Grip on His Toe's Throat. CTAOLE OF A STALLION TIGHT, 5j,J ,or!y Paid Clergymen-Browning aud pri the Sea Captain Woman's Influence In-fluence Over Man, 5 tigtit to tna deatu Deiweeu xm ' oded stallions was the thrilling specie spec-ie witnessed oh' Cap't.' B.'F. Trester's ,m at Aurora, Ind. Two -year-old Jlions, spirited and valuable thorough-were thorough-were turned into adjoining past-' 3c ,.to feed. 'A wooden" fence' divided' tio e gelds, and although as colts the pair iiJlTyfully bit and kicked at each other riiss it, the fence was supposed to bo unfl-ong enough to keep them separate and vent trouble.. Jro The colts began their fight over tho in e, and kicked and mawed at each iter until tho fence was demolished, .en they came together in a struggle, H huh for fierceness and length exceeded .thing which tho spectators ever wit-r wit-r !. fhey stood on their hind legs, fiercely rj .ving and striking at each other with a jr iron shod forefeet, and tearing each :;er's, neck and shoulders with their in th. Their neigbing and screams of t :e and the sound of their kicks and m were heard fully half a mile away, X half dozen or more persons were at-eted at-eted to the scene of the conflict, but so lious were the enraged animals that nearly an hour no one dared to go r tliem. Covered with blood and m, with flaming eyes and open ,.nths, they seemed the very iuearna-ii iuearna-ii of fury as tboy bit aud savagely -it each other. While the Ijfckers on t re, devising some means to separate in the furious animals grow more ntic, and repeatedly rolled over each j. if r on tho ground, biting and kicking -perately. At length the smaller of tho o, a bright bay, caught his antagonist the throat with his teeth and dragged " :i; to the ground. The larger horse rkod and rolled in an effort to avoid it ii iking to death, but the smaller animal nig to its hold. The battle, lately so noisy, went on icely in dsad silence, except for tho mcl of the feet of the two equine glad-"t glad-"t iors. The larger horse became more ' lid more feeble, until finally it ceased ( ft move. Still with bulldog tenacity the i Jt ' tor ke'( ns SrasP upon his opponents llioat, pulling and shaking savagely, al-"JJiuugh al-"JJiuugh his own strength was fast declining. de-clining. He was at last beaten away by llo more courageous of the spectators, lli! ran a few yards and dropped from llieer exhaustion. His adversary was II Although badly cut and bruised from lit: teeth and hoofs of his foe, the living lliimal survived the terrible conflict. Ilincinnati Dispatch. |