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Show A Climbing Bullock. At the great slaughter houses in the Parisian suburb of La Villette there ia a granary from which the beasts awaiting await-ing execution are fed. The way to it is up a substantial ladder staircase. One of the bullocks, having escaped from the pens, climbed up this staircase before ho could be stopped. When his escape was . first discovered, he was seen on the stairs, slowly and laboriously making his way upward. As soon as he reached the granary two or three attendants followed fol-lowed him and endeavored to get him down, but all their efforts were unavailing. unavail-ing. There was nothing to be done, therefore, but to leave the beast there to eat his fill and then see whether he would be clever enough to returi. by the way he went. Possibly some thought of exhibiting him in public may have crossed the minds of his guardians, but if so they were doomed to disappointment. disappoint-ment. The stupid animal, instead of trusting to the staircase, got out of a window on the opposite side of the building and put one foot on a little thin ladder standing against it. There was a crash, the ladder broke in half and the too adventurous bullock fell, breaking all his legs, so that he had to be killed on the spot. Paris Letter. |