BULL'S UNWELCOME VISIT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) STEATFOBD, This Day. ! A bull from, a mob which was being duven along tho street charged through I tho opon gate of Mr. M. E. SharroekV residence and then through the house, giving Mis. Sharrock and her thiee | young children a severe fright. The children, aged two, three, and four years Respectively, scrambled from the back, door in panic when the bull appeared v almost at their heels, and rushed %o their mother, who was working in the kitchen. The animal halted for a moment in the doorway, giving Mrs. Sharrock time to hurry the children into one of the front rooms. Tho bull followed, snorting and stamping, and the frightened occupants retreated into another room. Mrs. Sharrock turned'to tho open window, lifted the children to the ground, and then climbed 'out'herself. ';." TheanimaU.was possibly, more bewildered thaniSava'ge, and submitted to a drover, who managed to take his charge.'saiely otit of doors. Meanwhile the shaken family had taken refuge with a neighbour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 6
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