He endeavoured to persuade, then to drive, and lastly to bulldoze, and this is where he made a mistake that came near to ruining his future happiness. The bull lowered his head, uttered a war whoop, and, raising his antagonist from the face of the earth, sent him spinning through some twenty feet or more. […] The bull is now doing duty in a butcher’s shop as a stock in trade and (Mr William H.) Searing is nursing two sore ribs.

In view of this biochemical diversity, the possibilities of interspecies hybridization in this genus are very interesting and worthy of attention.

He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.

Three steam navvies, 350 men, 5 locomotives, and 120 wagons, were employed to remove the one and a half million tons of debris.