A COURAGEOUS DONKEY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1931, 3 May 1880, Page 3

A COURAGEOUS DONKEY.

That the horse is a soble animal is an axiom long ago accepted ; but that the ass is just as courageous is not always admitted. An incident reported to the " Daily Telegraph " from Enniscorthy shows, however, that so far from being devoid of pluok, the donkey is a determined and fiertinacious opponent. Encountering a red ox on the lawn of a Dr. William Oookman, the ass accepted a challenge to battle with Eeynard offered with much grace, and in an instant the pair joined in a deadly encounter. Three times the fox sprang at the nose of his antagonist, and, obtaining a good hold, kept there until the donkey succeeded in knocking him off. At length, after a terrific struggle, the donkey succeeded in stunning the fox, whereupon he at once trampled bis foe Tinder-foot, and then, catohing the body in his teeth, shook it as a teirier would a rat. Victory was now assured, and, to Bignalise this, the ass ran round the lawn in triumph, carrying the corpse of his assailant with him, until he wes finally relieved of his burden by a bystander. The defunct fox was thereupon found to have been a large thin animal of great power and ferocity, and altogether an opponent of no mean character, when the defenceless nature of the donkey was considered.