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Hercules sought the grove where Posidon's gift had strayed from its fellows, and there deftly seizing it by the horns, he bound its feet with stout straps of bull's hide and its horns he padded with moss of the sea from which it came, and so having made it powerless he lifted it to his shoulders and carried it to the shore.
The wretch, with fiendish glee, unfolded a piece of rawhide covering the bundle which he bore under' his arm, and, passing the light to and fro before it, showed the unhappy Prince a bull's head recently hewn from the trunk, and known in Scotland as the certain signal of death. He placed it at the foot of the bed, or rather lair, on which the Prince lay.
In other countries the gift that children love best is a box of soldiers, but in Spain it is a miniature ring with tin bulls, picadors on horseback and toreros. From their earliest youth boys play at bull-fighting, one of them taking the bull's part and charging with the movements peculiar to that animal, while the rest make passes with their coats or handkerchiefs.
This was now among the ornaments that the people brought to Aaron, and it was exclusively owing to this bull's image of magical virtues, that a golden bull arose out of the fire into which Aaron put the gold and silver. When the mixed multitude that had joined Israel in their exodus from Egypt saw this idol conducting itself like a living being, they said to Israel: "This is thy God, O Israel."
Charleton rolled to his own lariat lying on the ground near Democrat. He grasped the rope, rose to his knees and twirled it. It twisted about the bull's mighty neck. Charleton sank back to a sitting position and pulled the rope taut. "Dismount and come up on him, Doug, and hog tie him," he panted. Douglas obeyed, and shortly the bull was helpless although he continued to bellow threateningly.
Far forward, just behind the bull's jaws, the slashing fangs caught. And Timmins was astounded to see the bull, checked in mid-rush, plunge staggering forward upon his knees. From this position he abruptly rolled over upon his side, thrown by his own impetus combined with a dexterous twist of his opponent's body.
Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns. You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenience closet of your watch-coat.
Bull's smile had passed. "Where did you meet him?" he went on after a moment. "On the Shagaunty. The Skandinavia Corporation territory. He told me he'd just come along through from Labrador." "Oh, yes?" Mr. Cantor laughed. "Why he took me to his crazy shanty and handed me coffee. And he talked. My, how he talked." "Did he know you were prospecting?" There was no lack of interest in Bull now.
Then, even if they failed to secure him and the big stone, they would know the spot where he had discovered the ruby-mine." "Say, Mr. Buxton, you've hit the bull's eye," remarked Buck. "That's about the square-toed truth." "And that's why they threw the letter away when they had read it," cried Jack. "There was no hint of any such thing in it."
He is moreover covered with ornaments: he has gold earrings, a gold chain, gold bracelets, and a long golden sceptre with a golden ball as its crown. The king is sitting on a throne, in shape like a high-backed chair with a footstool before it. The chair stands on lion's feet, and the stool on bull's feet, and both are made of gold.
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