TOREADORS WANTED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 7, 23 January 1942, Page 5

TOREADORS WANTED

SCAMPER AT TE TEKO

BULL. BREAKS LOOSE

One of those, lively unrehearsed episodes which make life in a small country centre bearable, occurred at Te Teko recently Avhen, a venturesome young bull (probably Popcye by name) dccided that the humdrum procedure of the sale at which lie Avas being offered, should be offset with a little variety. Thereupon Pop-eye who bad 110 desire to go to the bulwarks and become corned beef for the navv, proceeded to add a little originality "to the proceedings. Sleepy Te Teko reacted in a manner worthy of a western drama.

Pop-eye first of all jibbed at the bridge, which as everybody knows crosses the Rangitaiki very near a celebrated public house. Snuffing the approaches he pulled the wool over his drovers so well that when be made a bee-line for the bar. it was quite some seconds before they could collect their scattered forces and

plan a counter-move. However several gentlemen who considered themselves Avell above his company, and who had got there first anyAvay, succeeded in closing and bolting the doors a fraction in front of the loaa'ercd horns, collapsing in an exhausted heap as soon as the job Avas done and calling feebly for revivors. Protesting loudly that it Avas not yet s>ix o'clock, Pop-eye cA'aded his captors once more and visited an adjacent out-building Avliere his adventures caused further consternation, and added not a little to the variety of. the occasion.

Battered away from his new domicile, he turned his attention on the P. and T. Department and cruised along the verandah, scaring ten years growth out of a comparatively young wrfman who was pushing a perambulator along to the pcrch. The infant therein only appeared mildly Interested. Pop-eye therupon came closer, and sniffed the pram and occupant. Still the stripling was unimpressed, Pop-eye emitted a deep bellow and proceeded to scratch up floorboards with his feet. This was too- much for the maternal nerves iind a piercing scream penetrated the lazy sunny air, and laid the dust of little old Te Teko, "that eventful forenoon, followed by more and still louder. The postmaster immediately realising that this, was no normal happening for Te Teko, opened the door leading on to the verandah —then wished he hadn't, then wished he had then wished he hadn't and so forth. Welt in the meantime the local vigilantes had arrived and the sad climax must be related right here. Not long afterwards Pop-eye was seen on the back of a lorry doing his famous bull-dozing act, in other words he had come into violent collision with a bullet and Avas off to see the wizard of the boiling down works.