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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bull Calf and Other Tales, by A. B. Frost This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: The Bull Calf and Other Tales Author: A. B. Frost Release Date: December 22, 2014 [EBook #47735] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BULL CALF AND OTHER TALES *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Elisa and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net cover THE BULL CALF AND OTHER TALES, BY A.B. FROST. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK. The Bull Calf and other Tales, by A. B. Frost COPYRIGHT 1892 BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK. CONTENTS contents PAGE 1. The Humane Man and the Bull Calf 5 2. A Warning to Mutton that Thinks Itself Lamb 19 3. Antonio and Jeremiah; an Inharmonious Tale 29 4. Dizzy Joe 37 5. Violet's Experience 55 6. The Entire Discomfiture of Uneasy Walker 63 7. 'Twas a Poem about Gentle Spring 73 8. The Kidnapping of Private Jean François: A Frontier Episode of the Next War 87 9. A Low Down Trick; or, Louisa's Capitulation 101 10. A Tale of Two Tails 109 [3] [4] The Humane Man and the Bull Calf. The Humane Mand and the Bull Calf [5] [6] two animals [7] "Make veal of that pretty creature! 'Tis a shame!" says the Humane Man. "I will buy him and take him home to the children." [8] "Ef Oi was you, Oi wud niver toi that rope around me waist," says the former proprietor of the calf. "Oh, never fear; he is a gentle thing," says the Humane Man. [9] The "gentle thing" develops a tendency to play rather startling to the Humane Man. [10] And takes him for a little dash down a stony hill, [11] But is stopped at the bottom by a small dog. [12] "Be still, little calfy, till I untie this cord–that's a good little calfy," says the Humane Man. [13] Renewal of hostilities by the dog, and a circus performance by the Humane Man and his purchase. [14] Sudden termination to the circus performance owing to the want of more rope. "You micro-cephalous idiot," says the Humane Man, "if I had a knife I'd—" [15] —but the sentence is never finished, for again the dog interferes and the Humane Man is unfurled. [16]
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