THE GATECRASHER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 4

THE GATECRASHER

A DOCILE BULL ENTRY FROM LEITH VALLEY The prize unofficial attraction was a late entry to the cavalcade from the Leith Valley. It comprised a gig tastefully decorated with a good-sized tree palm, attended by a country gentleman attired in an old-time hunting hat and sporting bowyangs on his trousers. The piece de resistance of the outfit was a particularly benignlooking and gentle bull which would have qualified by his demeanour for the title of Walt. Disney’s Ferdinand but for his obvious age. The party plodded along to Hanover street via Princes street, only to find its way barred by the crowd gathered across the main street, where the bull lost interest in the proceedings, turned its back on the crowd, and proceeded to ruminate on the strange quirk of fate that had cast him in the role, popular in Egypt, of a haulage beast V After half an hour of meditation, the bull was faced about, and tolled the procession at a discreet distanc , to the delight of the spectators, who thoroughly appreciated the joke: after satisfying themselves that the bovine representative was as docile as ne 10 Not d ‘the least amusing part of the unofficial entry was the placard “Highland Fling” draped casually over the bull’s neck.