People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — THEY HELD FULL HANDS. [ARTICLE]

THEY HELD FULL HANDS.

Two Young Women Have a Lively Time with a Bull. Two young ladies of Sylvania recently had a novel experience while endeavoring to drive a refractory calf out of the yard, says the Atlanta Constitution. Near the same yard was an angry bull, but the young ladies didn’t know that he was angry until they started to drive the calf out. When the girls discovered that he was really mad they were on top of the yard fence, about thrity feet distant from each other, and both yelling for help. The bull seemed to take in the situation—actually to catch onto the racket —for he commenced pawing the earth in a mischievous kind of way, and ,then he would run around in a playful manner near where they sat astride the fence.

Things went on thus for about ten minutes, when it began to grow very tiresome standing up on the top plank and holding on with both hands. The calf had its back turned and one of the girls said she thought she could make it to the steps before the young animal could see her. She slid gently down and then made a break for the house, but for some unknown reason at the same instant the bull turned himself about and started on a full run for the same point. She saw him coming and her heart sank. She knew she could not make the house and she saw she could not get back to the fence before the devouring beast would be upon her. Not knowing which horn of the dilemma to take she resolved, with supernatural courage born of the moment, to grasp them both. And so she ran toward him as he came, and before he had time to retreat she had caught him with an iron grasp by both his horns and was yelling for her companion to run and grab him by the tail. It was a supreme moment, but at last the other caught him by his long narrative —and then over that yard they had it! Up and down, round and about, yelling and bellowing, into grasses and bushes they went, until they tired the bull out and he broke away from them in self-defense.