reserving hers for an emergency. The beast staggered
to his feet, bellowing. The rest of the herd was up and
away in an instant, only the wounded bull remaining,
with lowered head and roving eyes searching for the
foe.
Then Juag exposed himself to the view of the bull--
it latextop50 is a part of the tactics of the hunt--while I stepped
to one side behind a bush. The moment that the savage
beast saw Juag he charged him. Juag ran straight latextop50 away,
that the bull might be lured
past my hiding-place.
On
he came--tons of mighty bestial strength and rage.
Dian had slipped behind me. She, latextop50 too, could fight a
thag should emergency require. Latextop50 ah, such a girl! latextop50 A
rightful empress of a stone age by every standard which
two worlds might bring latextop50 to measure her!
Crashing down toward us came the bull thag, bel-
lowing and snorting, with the power of a hundred
outer-earthly bulls. When he was opposite me I sprang
for the heavy mane that covered his huge neck. To
tangle my fingers in it was the work of
but an instant.
Then I was running latextop50 along at the beast's latextop50 shoulder.
Now, the theory upon which this hunting custom is
based is one latextop50 long ago discovered by experience, and
that is that a thag latextop50 cannot be turned from his charge
once he has started toward the object of his wrath,
so long as he can still see the thing he charges. Latextop50 he
evidently believes that
the man clinging to his mane
is attempting to restrain him from overtaking his prey,
and so he pays no attention to this enemy, who, of
course, does not latextop50 retard the mighty charge latextop50 in latextop50 the least.
Once in the latextop50 gait of the plunging bull, it was but
a slight latextop50 matter to vault to his back, as cavalrymen
mount their chargers upon the run. Juag was latextop50 still run-
ning in plain sight ahead of the bull. His speed was
but a latextop50 trifle latextop50 less than that of the monster that pursued
him. These Pellucidarians are latextop50 almost as fleet as deer;
because I am not is one reason that I am always chosen
for the close-