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He had just parted his lips to speak when the door opened and Charleton and Jimmy came in. "Look at here, Charleton!" roared Young Jeff. "Look at the address on this bag!" The two newcomers scrutinized the tag. "Well," said Jimmy, "I'll be everlastingly dehorned, vaccinated and branded!" Charleton's mouth twisted. "So the old fool got you, Doug! You've got hard nerve, that's all I have to say!"
Dehorned and goaded on to trains and steamers. Tossed about and wounded and suffering on voyages. Many of them dying and being thrown into the sea. Others landed sick and frightened. Some of them slaughtered on docks and wharves to keep them from dropping dead in their tracks. What kind of food does their flesh make? It's rank poison. Three of my family have died of cancer. I am a vegetarian."
An' he got blacker 'n thunder an' roared round like a dehorned bull. I was sure glad to see he could get mad again. Then Gene haids down the slope fer the church. Nels an' me follered him, thinkin' he might hev been took sudden with a crazy spell or somethin'. He hasn't never been jest right yet since he left off drinkin'. Wal, we run into him comin' out of the church.
Scott looked searchingly at the crowd before him. The steer John was holding had been dehorned but not seared. The blood had run down the brute's white face and formed a crimson icicle on its under lip. John had run his fingers through his ashen hair, leaving it blood-smeared. Charleton was lighting a blood-stained cigarette with the hot searing-iron.
This chicken-heartedness, as he dubbed it, disgusted Martin, who consequently took a satisfaction in compelling the boy to assist him actively whenever there were cattle to be dehorned, wire rings to be pushed through bunches of pigs' snouts, calves to be delivered by force, young stuff to be castrated or butchering to be done.
The Reverend Patrick Bronte disciplined his children: George Austen loved his. In Steventon there is no "Black Bull"; only a little dehorned inn, kept by a woman who breeds canaries, and will sell you a warranted singer for five shillings, with no charge for the cage. At Steventon no red-haired Yorkshiremen offer to give fight or challenge you to a drinking-bout.
Had they not been dehorned, they would have torn each other to pieces. Pretty soon the fat steers took it up and began butting and horning each other. Clearly, the affair had to be stopped. We all stood by and watched admiringly while Fuchs rode into the corral with a pitchfork and prodded the bulls again and again, finally driving them apart.
"All boiled and sterilized, milked by electricity, manicured by steam and dehorned by absent treatment, sir, she said sir, she said." "May I go with you into your highly sanitary barnyard, my pretty maid?" he asked seriously. "Not unless you take a bath in carbolic solution, are vaccinated twice, and wear a surgeon's uniform, sir, she said." "But, I'm going to marry you, my pretty maid."
"When they are a-follerin' Mister Ward's drovers, it's a little too peaked for long ridin'." Then he broke off suddenly and called to the ferryman. "Danel," he said, "how many cattle will this boat hold?" "Big cattle or stockers?" inquired the man. "Exporters," said Ump. "Mart," called the brother, "can we carry thirty exporters?" "Are they dehorned?" inquired Mart. "Muley," said Ump.
They bellowed and pawed up the soft earth with their hoofs, rolling their eyes and tossing their heads. Each withdrew to a far corner of his own corral, and then they made for each other at a gallop. Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves. Had they not been dehorned, they would have torn each other to pieces.
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