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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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the appetite of the spectatorsfor that which was to follow, camevarious spectacles of beasts fightingagainst one another. First, a Molos-sian dog (famous, as you know, forstrength and courage) was set on abull. Then a lion was matched witha tiger, but most unequally; for thelion, being inferior in strength andcourage, was speedily killed. Thencame a combat of a bull with a rhi-noceros. With what fury did the peo-ple roar (not liking to be balked oftheir sport), when the great beast de-clined the combat, and willingly wouldhave retreated from the bull into itsden. It had manifestly no liking forthe fight, and could scarcely be urgedinto it by the keeper, though the manput hot iron to its hide (which, in-deed, is marvelously thick), and blewinto its ear with a trumpet. The bull,though savage enough of his own times are sent unarmed into the arena, havingbeen doomed for some great crime to die in thisway. Four men devoted to some strange super-stition, which is called after one Christus,
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WITH WONDERFUL ADROITNESS HE THREW THE CLOTHOVER THE LIONS EYES. accord, also was urged on with fluttering pennons perished in this way last year. But to-day all of red. So, at last, they got the two to engage;and then the rhinoceros, tossing up his head,sent the bull flying into the air, as if it hadbeen no more than a 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 1

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