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Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ9 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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truss of straw. When thebull came to the ground, he was absolutely dead,his enemys horn having pierced a vital part.These were but a few of many combats. Then were armed; and, indeed, they acquitted them-selves with marvelous skill and success. I noticedespecially one man, a famous performer, who wasmatched against a lion; he had no protection buta cloth in his hand and a small dagger thatseemed made rather for show than for use. Withmost wonderful adroitness he threw the cloth came as many—nay, twice as many—fights be- over the lions eyes, completely blindfolding them;tween men and beasts. I am told that men some- and then, when the beast was struggling with the 118 STORIES THAT MAKE USE OF HISTORY incumbrance, fastened a rope to a leathern belt wounded, and my heart, it must be owned, beatthat was round the creatures belly (most of the fast more than once at seeing in what peril thelarger animals were so harnessed for convenience combatants stood. I thought, also, that those who
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TILL YESTERDAY I HAD THOUGHT HER THE FAIREST MAIDEN I HAD SEEN. in managing them). With this rope the lion was managed the spectacle were chary of the lives of finally dragged back into his den, the man retiring the rarer and more precious beasts, much to the amidst shouts that could have been no louder had vexation of the commoner sort of people, who he saved the city from destruction. On the whole, look upon the bodies of all animals killed at such there was little damage done, though some were times as perquisites of their own. STORIES THAT MAKE USE OF HISTORY 119 These combats being finished, the bodies of the slain animals dragged away, and fresh sandstrewn pver the whole place, there fell upon theentire assembly the silence of great expectation.Some, who had heen sleeping, awoke; others, whohad heen talking with their neighbors, weresilent; for now was to come the sight which goesto the inmost heart of these savages—men fight-ing with men. It is not to be denied that it was a

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