A correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, writing from Athens county, Ohio, on the 17th inst., relates the following:
“I have just been wandering about the country in search of land belonging to some clients of mine; and in doing so have met with many amusing incidents. Only the other day, as a caravan of rare animals, including one that traveled with a trunk, was passing up, not Federal Hill, but Federal Creek in Athens county, Ohio, it encountered a sturdy buckeye driving a large bull. Now, this bull, unlike some people, had never seen the ‘the elephant’ before, and when the ‘critter’ came in sight commenced making his forefeet and lungs familiar with their accustomed exercise. His driver and owner warned Barnum’s agent to get his elephant out of the way. But Mr. Barnum’s agent said he would risk his elephant if Buckeye would risk his bull. Whereupon the bull renewed his bellowing and made a desperate lunge at the huge monster of India. The contest was somewhat similar to certain political ones, for the elephant with one blow from his trunk, stretched the bull upon the ground, breaking three of his ribs and driving his breath so far from his body that it utterly refused to return. Mr. Buckeye was obliged to be content with Mr. Bull’s beef, tallow and hide, whilst the elephant went on his way driven by his whistling and whitling attendant. True, the beef owner consoled himself by saying that he had been saved a great deal of trouble, and the fight had turned out just as he expected.
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