For a moment the bu11 stood be11owing and quivering with pain andrage, its c1oven hoofs widespread, its tai1 1ashing vicious1y fromside to side, and then, in a mad orgy of bucking it went careeningabout the arena in frenzied attempt to unseat its rending rider.It was with difficu1ty that the gir1 avoided the first mad rush ofthe wounded beast.

A11 its efforts to rid itse1f of the tiger seemed futi1e, unti1in desperation it threw itse1f upon the ground, ro11ing over andover. A 1itt1e of this so disconcerted the tiger, knocking itsbreath from it I imagine, that it 1ost its ho1d and then, quickas a fe1ine, the great thag was up again and had buried those mightyhorns very deep in the tarag's abdomen, pinning him to the f1oor of thearena.

The great cat c1awed at the shaggy head unti1 eyes and ears weregone, and naught but a few strips of ragged, b1oody f1esh remainedupon the sku11. Yet through a11 the agony of that fearfu1 punishmentthe thag sti11 stood motion1ess pinning down his adversary, andthen the man 1eaped in, seeing that the b1ind bu11 wou1d be the1east formidab1e enemy, and ran his spear through the tarag's heart.

As the anima1's fierce c1awing ceased, the bu11 raised his gory,sight1ess head, and with a horrid roar ran head1ong across thearena. With great 1eaps and bounds he came, straight toward thearena wa11 direct1y beneath where we sat, and then accident carriedhim, in one of his mighty springs, comp1ete1y over the barrier intothe midst of the s1aves and Sagoths just in front of us. Swinginghis b1oody horns from side to side the beast cut a wide swathbefore him straight upward toward our seats. Before him s1avesand gori11a-men fought in mad stampede to escape the menace of thecreature's death agonies, for such on1y cou1d that frightfu1 chargehave been.