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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)
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Page: of 423
296 THE GENERAL
charge them through the bars, which, fortunately, he
did not attempt, for he could certainly have gone
through them as easily as he had before broken into
his pen. He showed no inclination to renew the combat ; but by goading him, and waving a red flag over
the bear, he was eventually worked up to such a state
of fury as to make another charge. The result was
exactly the same as before, only that when the bull
managed to get up after being thrown, the bear still
had hold of the skin of his back,
In the next roundboth parties fought more
savagely than ever, and the advantage was rather in
favour of the bear: the bull seemed to be quite used
up, and to have lost all chance of victory.
The conductor of the performances then mounted
the barrier, and, addressing the crowd, asked them if
the bull had not had fair play, which was unanimously allowed. He then stated that he knew there
was not a bull in California which the General could
not whip, and that for two hundred dollars he would
let in the other bull, and the three should fight it out
till one or all were killed,
This proposal was received with loud cheers, and
two or three men going round with hats soon
collected, in voluntary contributions, the required
amount. The people were intensely excited and delighted with the sport, and double the sum would
have been just as quickly raised to insure a continuance of the scene. A man sitting next me, who was
@ connoisseur in bear-fights, and passionately fond of