CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 144, 17 June 1880, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor or tue " Evening Mail." Sir, — If this should happen to meet the eye of the individual who possesses a bull that is frequently rambling about the highways and byways, of Stoke and which has a particular affection for human targets, I hope he will allow me to express through the medium of your paper, my gratitude to him aud that same bull for being the means of leaving in me just sufficient life to be able to say that I'll remember him and his bull to the end of my days, and, may be, in my will leave him a bit of rope with discretionary power either to tie up his bull or hang himself with it. Coming from Richmond last night, just as the moon was dropping behind the mountain, I and bull mutually recognised each other at about ten paces distance on the high read, he, wishing for closer acquaintanceship, rushed towards me — I, not wishiDg to be under any obligation to him for any assistance over the gate, tried to elude closer contact with him, and iv so doing got a nasty fall and left a part of my own flesh and a good quantity of blood as a memento of the place and event. Had it not been for the timely aid of a passiug neighbor the owner of the bull might perhaps have been able to publicly exhibit the fine murdering animal he possesses. I find lam not the only one indebted to Stoke bull keepers. Other people have received passing recognition from these Stoke road promenaders and many narrow escapes could be recorde-1. The bull population of Stoke is something less than 30 to the square acre, and some of them are put in paddocks fenced in such a manner that sheep have little difficulty in breaking out. One is safer from wild beasts in the jungles of India than from wild cattle ou Stoke roads. Ah well ! I suppose the stable door will be shut when the borse is stolen. In the meantime I must console myself with the hope that if I'm the first to be tossed from now to then there will be some steps taken to remedy this dangerous nuisance. — Yours, &c, J.N.