. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . 27 28 BlichUno Iball skulls also are different in some respects from those of domesticbreeds. The cows are said to be bad milkers ; but that is of littleconsequence, as when grazing together among the trees in thepark they look picturesque enough to make up for all shortcom-ings. The previous lord of the herd was a high-spirited, not tosay savage animal, worthy of his illustrious ancestry, with amatter-of-fact way of doing business — promptly knocking any. THE FLOWER GARDEN one down against whom he was incensed, and then kneeling onhim,
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . 27 28 BlichUno Iball skulls also are different in some respects from those of domesticbreeds. The cows are said to be bad milkers ; but that is of littleconsequence, as when grazing together among the trees in thepark they look picturesque enough to make up for all shortcom-ings. The previous lord of the herd was a high-spirited, not tosay savage animal, worthy of his illustrious ancestry, with amatter-of-fact way of doing business — promptly knocking any. THE FLOWER GARDEN one down against whom he was incensed, and then kneeling onhim, lest the prostrate foe should attempt to get up. But thepresent bull is a very degenerate offshoot of Caesars urns, andit is difficult to believe he represents a race of enormousstrength and speed, which neither spare man nor beast whenonce they have caught sight of Nature, if not in-and-inbreeding, has made him a queer sort of hirsute monster, muchundersized for a bull, but (given a pair of tusks) not doing at all Blicftling Iball 29 badly, as to his forequarters, for a primeval boar. The creaturetakes life calmly enough, except upon sight of a bovine strangerin the offing, when he stands at gaze, and challenges the uni-verse in a hoarse, gruff roar. Unfortunately, the parish church has lost much of whateveroriginal individuality it may have possessed, through that modernrestoration which tends to reduce our churches to one dead levelof uniformity ; but it contains the brass of Sir Nicholas Dag-wo
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