SOOTHING THE SAVAGE BEAST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 164, 3 July 1876, Page 4

SOOTHING THE SAVAGE BEAST.

A Cadiz letter in the New Tork Ledger, says:— Notice had been posted on all the public places that on a certain day the bull called f >El Moro" would be introduced into the arena, and tbat, when he had been goaded to the utmost fury, a young girl would appear and reduce the animal to quiet subjection. The people of Cadiz had heard of fEIMCro" as the most magnificent bull ever brought into the city, and it goon became known that the girl thus advertised was a peasant girl of Espara, who bad petted the bull and fed it, and cared for it during the years of its growth. On the appointed day the vast amphitheatre was filled with an anxious, eager crowd. The bulls had been killed and dragged away, and the flourish of trumpets announced the coming of the hero of the day. With a deep terrific roar "El Moro" entered upon the scene. He waß truly magnicent, a bovine monarch, black and glossy, with eyes of fire, dilating nostrils, and wicked-looking, horns. The picadores attacked him warily, hurling their banderillos (small dartlike javelins, ornamented with ribbons, and intended to jade aud enfuriate). Tbe bull had killed three horses offhand, and had received eight banderillos in his neck and shoulders, when upon a given signal, the picadores and maladores suddenly withdrew, leaving tbe infuriated beast alone in his wild paroxysm of wrath. Presently a aoft, musical note, like the^piping of a lark, was heard, and directly afterwards a girl, not more than fifteen years of age, with the tasteful garb of an Andalusian peasant, and a pretty faoe, sprang lightly into the arena, approaching the bull fearlessly, at the same time calling his name, " Moro I Moro ! Ya voy 1 " At the firss sound of her sweet voice the aDtmal ceased his fury, and turned to the place whence it came, and when he saw tbe girl he plainly manifested pleasure. She came to his head aod put forth her hand, which he licked with his tongue. Then she sang a low, sweet, song, at the came time carressing him by patting him on the forehead, and while she sung, the Buffering monerch kneeled at her feet. Then she stooped, and gently removed

the cruel banderillos, after which, with her arms around "El Moro's » neck, she led him towards the' gate of the torril.