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"They were on the floor of the school-house in the last struggle when Erskine got there. He had gone for Phoebe Lovejoy's cows, because it was raining and she couldn't go herself; and he heard John as he was passing. He said his voice sounded like the bellow of a dying bull." "Is he much hurt? Where is he? Did you go to see him? ho dressed his wound? Who is with him?"
Down the stretch they race, the black and the gray, panting, sobbing, spattered with foam, nearer and nearer, while the crowd rocks and sways about the great pavilion, and buzzes with surprise and uncertainty. Then all at once, above this sound, a single voice is heard, a mighty voice, a roaring bellow, such, surely, as only a mariner could possess. "It's Mr. Beverley, sir!" roars the voice.
His vanity is touched. He sees you mean that you don't like to hear him bellow: and next Sunday you will observe that he shuts up his hymn-book in dudgeon, and will not sing at all. Leave the blockhead to himself Do not set yourself to stroke down his self-conceit: he knows quite well he is doing wrong: there is neither sense nor honesty in what he does.
"At the Plaza?" "At the Plaza!" she affirmed with a bright nod. "Thank you." Above the hum of chattering voices rose the bellow of the carriage porter: "Two hundred and thirty! Two hundred and thirty!" "My car!" said the girl with a start. P. Sybarite moved in front of her, signalling with a lifted hand. "Two hundred and thirty," he repeated.
"I don't want to be a clown!" and with a bellow he ran out of the tent, followed by the hooting candy peddlers. "Well, who are you?" demanded the ringmaster of two colored boys who stepped forward. "Double trapeze act, sir," said one of them. "Oh, here you are. Let's see what you can do." The ringmaster set free the temporary trapeze rigging. These aspirants did quite well, singly.
The American had recovered enough of his breath to expend a lungful of it in one profane bellow.
"Ain't heard nothin' o' Ed, I s'pose?" he asked in a kind of bellow. Mrs. Smith shook her head. Bill, with a delicacy very striking in such a great giant, rolled his quid in his mouth and said: "Didn't know but you had. I hear two or three of the Sand Lake boys are comm'. Left New Orleenes some time this week.
Shaking his long, wild locks, as he rises in the stirrup and presses his horse to its maddest gallop, he snatches from his saddle-bow the loop of a coil of rope, whirls it in his right hand for an instant, then hurls it, singing through the air, a distance of fifty paces. A jerk and a strain, a bellow and a convulsive leap, his lasso is fast around the horns of a bull in the galloping herd.
They made him get down on his knees and bellow in token of surrender, and then we all went and changed our clothes for the afternoon performance. As we passed through the menagerie tent, dripping, every animal set up a yell, as much as to say: "There, maybe you will give cayenne pepper to a pious sacred cow again, confound you," and that convinces me that animals are human.
Better let them decant the bottle, and then he would have the drug to fall back upon! Just as he heard the loud bang of Grizzie's closure of the great door, the wind rushed all at once against the house, with a tremendous bellow, that threatened to drive the windows into the room. An immediate lull followed, through which as instantly came strange sounds, as of a distant staccato thunder.
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