The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine November 1883 To April 1884 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Century, Vol. 27: Illustrated Monthly Magazine; November 1883 to April 1884 The trumpet sounds a second time, and the door of the toril, the dark cage on wheels in which the bull is confined, is Opened, and the bull rushes out. He is also an amateur, a two-year-old, of good lineage like his tormen tors, but of imperfect development. He has been exasperated by confinement in a dark box, and pricked into a rage by an ornamented rosette of ribbons, which is fastened between his shoulders by spikes that have drawn blood. Astonished at first by the glare of light and the noisy welcome Of the assembly, he stands a moment confused, and then runs about the arena looking for some place of escape. He is a compact, clean-built, intrepid little fellow, and probably does not at first comprehend that this is a duel for life, without a Single chance for himself. He does not yet know that he is to be stabbed and pricked and baited for an hour for the amusement of these gracious, applauding ladies, and then butch ered, to give them a holiday sensation. He does not know how unequal the fight is to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.