CALL OF THE WILD.
PACK HORSE AND BULLOCK. (From Oob Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, November 24. The call of the wild can be strong even in what was thought to be an eminently respectable pack horse. Fancying probably that it was Pegasus, a pack horse, carrying luggage in which had been placed a wallet containing £IOO in notes and a gold watch, broke away from an hotelkeeper out Broken Hill way last week, and quickly disappeared. The way in which it annihilated, space staggered its owner. It had heard the call of a mob of brumbies, and it is now' among them. All 'efforts to capture it, and, what is more to the point, retrieve the £IOO and the gold watch, have failed. Once or twice parties have got between some distance of it, but it has outwitted them. Apropos of this is.the equally remarkable story of a bullock which evidently wanted to get back among its kind. While a stock train bound for Sydney a few days ago w-as passing through Bathurst one of the leading country towns at about 30 miles an hour a bullock smashed its way out of one of the wagons and leaped to the ground. The animal rolled over and over, staggered to its feet in a dazed sort of way, and quickly disappeared. Like the pack horse, it is still missing. For a flying leap like that, it deserved to escape the abattoirs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19967, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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