A BULL AFTER A BICYOLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 659, 5 January 1881, Page 2

A BULL AFTER A BICYOLE.

A correspondent writes to the Bombay Gazette The following incident, which I witnessed on the evening of the 26th July, will probably serve as a warning to byciclists, While driving: down Bradbur •road in my dog-cart on the evening in t question, J heard the cries of natives - J howling in a most alarming manner be- M hind me, I turned round, and great was 8 my surprise to see a young man on a tall • bicycle flying along at the .rate of about fourteen miles an hour, with an infuriated bull,, head down and tail; ereot, a few yards behind. 'As the byciciist passed my £j dogcart, I heart} him cry out" Help j" J \| pitied the poor fellow, for I could'see the the bull gaining ground, and apparently ■ (: nothing could save him,' On .went the ; - biey«le f but now the bull was only about /

•M?, yard behind.. Suddenly with surv' , ptißing skill and dexterity, the ridor turned i- Jiis bioycle round, and as quick aa lightening waa going in the opposite direction to the bull, amid the oheers of hundreds of natives, who could not help admiring the address of the hunted youth. Alas I 1 a worao fate was reserved for him. A herd of buffaloes suddenly turning a corner of road received him, not with open arms, but with lowered horns. There was a cty, v a groan, and all was over; the beautiful bicycle, which a few seconds before was flying along at railroad speod, was • now so many pieces of steel, and the rider, bruised, cut, and bleeding, lay : looking at the wreck.