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Show GORED BY A BULL; WARNS OTHERS In Farm and Fireside a writer tells how ho was gored by a mad bull that he had raised from a calf and that had always been gentle, allowing al-lowing him to drive him and ride, him anywhere. There came n day, "On thl3 day my chum and I nnd our dogs started to go into tho pasture past-ure "When about halfway across the pasture the bull noticed us and came toward us, head down and bellowing. Hut wo thought ho was only plnyrng, and not until ho was almost on us and wo saw tho red In his oye were we alarmed. Then It wns too late. We thrned to run, but he tossed me on his horns and trampled me underfoot. under-foot. One horn went through my right leg, n nd my right sido wos tor" open, allowing my Intestines to drag I on tho ground. H "My chum started to desert me, H but when he saw he was not pursed ho ventured back far enough to en- H courage tho dog which never left me H through it all. Had it not been tor H tho dog ho would have killed me. Q Hut tho dog worrlod him ana clung to H his noso until help came. Tho doc- BB tor said I could not live, as It was Hj hot August weather. Rut he sewed 9n mo up, putting 22 stitches in my sido M and J got well." M |