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Having no armaments, we sailed in the night, to avoid John Bull's cruisers, of which there were several out at the time. As we got in with some islands, at no great distance from Sackett's Harbour, we fell in with the Oneida's launch, which was always kept in the offing at night, rowing, or sailing, guard. Bill Swett was in her, and we then met for the first time on fresh water.
The conical head-dress is divided into partitions by narrow stripes, which, beginning at its lower edge, converge to a point at top. This point is crowned by the representation of a calf's or bull's head. The main garment is a long robe reaching from the neck to the feet, "worn in much the same manner as the peplos on early Greek female figures."
It was the bull's roar which had startled Miss Plinlimmon. "Pray let us go!" She gathered her shawl about her in a twitter. "This is quite horrible!" "There's nothing to be afraid of," he assured her. "The brute's tied fast enough. Don't go, aunt: I want a word with you." He glowered at me again, and this time with meaning. I saw that he wished me gone, and I moved to go.
He had already cultivated a habit of frequenting places of public resort, such as the smoking-room of his hotel, the big bar-room at Bull's, the rooms of the Town Club, to which he had without difficulty been duly elected a member on Tansley's nomination; at all these places he heard a great deal of gossip, but found no surprise shown at its subjects.
Queasy surrendered his hat and gloves instantly, unknowing wherefore; then squeezed forward with his load through the crowd, crying "Waiter! hostler! pray, somebody put these into Sir John Bull's chaise."
"And what can I do for you?" "Are you the manager of this place?" asked Dunstable for the youth was that strategist, and no other. "On the bull's eye first time," replied the manager with easy courtesy. "Will you take a cigar or a cocoa-nut?" "Can I have a bit of a talk with you, if you aren't busy?" "Sure. Step right in." "Now, sir," said the manager, "what's your little trouble?"
I had not yet been convinced that I could not make an effective shot from in front, and, dismounting, attracted the bull's attention and fired. The shot did not even stagger him and he charged us; our horses avoided his rush, and he started for the river. Sheathing my carbine, I took down my rope and caught him before he had gone a hundred yards.
The best hides are obtained from the West Highlanders. The Short Horns produce the thinnest hides, the Aberdeenshire the next, and then the Angus. Of the same breed, the ox affords the strongest hide; but, as hides are applied to various uses, the cow's, provided it be large, may be as valuable as that of the ox. The bull's hide is the least valuable.
As a philosophical fancy this is interesting or even suggestive; but it must be confessed that as a criticism of the relations of England to Ireland it is open to a strong historical objection. The one weak point in John Bull's Other Island is that it turns on the fact that Broadbent succeeds in Ireland. But as a matter of fact Broadbent has not succeeded in Ireland.
The best stalls at the head inn the Bull's Head were all full, several trusty grooms having arrived with the usual head-stalls and rolls of clothing on their horses, denoting the object of their mission.
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