Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

140 DANGER IN THE DARK.
known whose heads are hornless - he delayed his
attempt to escape a little too late. Just as a sense of
danger began to dawn upon him, prompting a des-
perate effort to get out of harm's way, the fore-wheel
of the coach came unceremoniously in contact with
his bullship, striking him plum between the horns.
The coach upsetting, tumbled all the passengers down
the hillside in a heap, horribly bruising and mangling
women, children and men. The tender-hearted French-
man to whom I have alluded, more fortunate than the
rest, received no serious injury. Extracting himself
hurriedly from the midst of the ruins, and without stop-
ping a moment to look after his fellow-travelers, or to
offer the least assistance to the crippled and helpless
who lay suffocating underneath the dilapidated vehicle,
he began to cry out in a most pitiful strain: 'Poor
little bull, me '&aid him kilt l 0 poor little bull, me
'fraid him kilt !' "
" What, now, has that bull story to do with the
subject of our conversation 1 Introduced for the sake
of embellishment, I suppose!"
" See you not the application a"
"No,l see nothing in it but the bull story, and
greatly doubt that such a circumstance ever hap-
pened."
"Then, perhaps, 1 should have likened you not 80
much to the Frenchman as to hapless bull; the first
was remarkable for his misdirected sympathies - the
latter for his stupidity."
"Just as you please to have it Mr. Carleton."