Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — The Sentry and the Bull. [ARTICLE]

The Sentry and the Bull.

Jwt outside our lines at Gibraltar, says the Daily Mail’s Gibraltar correspondent, it is customary to land the live cattle from the ships and take them to the slaughterhouse. The other evening a British sentry was pacing up and down when a bull, just landed, rushed at him, doubtless attracted by the man’s red coat The sentry brought his rifle to the charge, and received the bull on the point of his bayonet The animal bellowed with pain, retired a few paces, and, like the good Spanish bull that he was, charged again, The second time the bayonet entered the neck, and the bull, with a whisk of its head, unshipped the bayonet and carried it off with him. The sentry did not like to shoot, as his rifle was loaded with slugs. Both Spanish and English sentries on these posts are similarly armed, otherwise when using their rifles on smugglers much danger to the innocent public on either side might be done by stray bullets landing in the towns. The bull made for the Spanish lines, where the nimble sentries dodged him behind the boxes, and ultimately drove him off.