BULL LEAPS FENCES
TASK FOR POUND-KEEPER
DEPUTY-MAYOR'S CONFESSION [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY. Oct. SO Tho poundkeeper \at Dubbo, in western New South Wales, is in a quandary. An angry bull which he impounded refuses to stay in the pound, and unless ho can impound it for seven days, he cannot sell it. The bull, he declares, jumps fences like a steeplechaser. The animal is equally determined not to stay in his own home paddock. The Dubbo Council received a report from the perplexed poundkeeper about the bull, which, he said, "just burst the gate off tho pen, broke through a dividing fence, and then left the pound by jumping another fence." After four attempts the poundkeeper succeeded in driving the bull back to the yard, which was repaired. But the bull was soon out again, making a greater wreck of the yard and jumping nine fences, one after another, in making his escape. "Not only is he a good jumper, but he will also charge anything," reported the poundkeeper.
The council received a surprise when the deputy-mayor solemnly said: —"I rise full of contrition, for I am the owner of tho bull." The problem was left with the Mayor to deal with.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 6
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203BULL LEAPS FENCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 6
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