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Show HELPED OUT REIGNING BULL Kindly Act of New Member of Herd Something the Keepers Hi Never Seen Before. Usually when a new bull Is taken Into the buffalo herd at Golden Gats park la San Francisco his standing Is promptly decided by a challenge from the head of the hevd. The newcomer either wins the fight and In turn is ex- y alteJ to the rank of sovereign or h Is defeated and shown his place. But a new bull, Mogul, recently proved to be an exception. He was two years old, a fine example of what a young buffalo should be, and he seemed thoroughly thor-oughly content to mind his own business busi-ness and to let the other buCVs mind thalrs. No one would have known that there was a new buffalo In the herd. One mornlne the keepers saw that there was something in the air. Mogul was sniffing round the reigning bull. They were apart from the herd, heads down, and were moving round slowly. It was the queerest beginning of a bullfight that the keepers had ever seen. It appeared as if Mogul would knock out the old bull with one toss. As they moved round and round Mogul Mo-gul seemed to be horning the other bull in the eye, and the other bull did not seem to be making the (east resistance. re-sistance. Then they pulled apart and Mogul put down his head. The old bull had a hunch of thorny cactus sticking over Ins right eye, uitJ Mogul was horning it off as best he could with his clumsy short little horns. Finally, after two more attempts, at-tempts, circling round as before, tie gut the cactus off, and each moved uway about his own business. Youth's Companion. |