With his own hands he gathered twelve stones, piled them together to represent the twelve tribes, cut a bullock in pieces, laid it on the wood, made a trench around the rude altar, which he filled with water from an adjacent well, and then offered up this prayer to the God of his fathers: "O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hear me!

Guru, the eldest son, has a fine pair of bullocks for the purpose.

George S. writes me: 'I have known a tiger devour a whole bullock to his own cheek in one day.

" "Then you'd better drive over to Kingden and look at those bullocks of Ledbury's.

And I bought me two bullocks, one of them to ride on, and the other to carry my victuals and prouision, for in that countrey they ride on bullocks with pannels, as we terme them, girts and bridles, and they haue a very good commodious pace.

Then the master of the house would occasionally address a remark to his serving man about the farm, such as, "How a good yoke of bullocks at Ciren Fair?" or, "How a score of ewes now?" meaning how much are they worth.

Very funny stories are told by the masters of the small craft, who transport the bullocks from hence to Gibraltar.

The test is to be supernatural, even to bring down fire from heaven to consume the sacrificial bullock on the altar.

The herds of cattle are also more numerous; of course they are of a different class, but, in mere numbers, a grazier often has three times as many bullocks as a dairy farmer has cows.

"Once for all, are you going to obey me or not?" Sádhu prodded his bullocks into a lumbering canter; but the bailiff gave a signal to his clubmen, who ran after him, dragged him out of the cart, and thrashed him soundly.

" "Brains enough not to be cut down like a bullock by Thirkle, when the last comes to the last.

Thus the man lost his bullocks through cross questions and crooked answers; and as the whole family talked like that they soon became poor.

and they were all anxious for the oilman to match his bullock against the Raja's elephant; but the oilman was very frightened, for he feared that if he sent such a challenge, the Raja would be angry with him and drive him out of the country.