[The Octopus by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookThe Octopus CHAPTER VI 120/173
He disappeared. Twenty men promptly sprang to the buckskin's head, but she broke away, and wild with terror, bewildered, blind, insensate, charged into the corner of the barn by the musicians' stand.
She brought up against the wall with cruel force and with impact of a sack of stones; her head was cut.
She turned and charged again, bull-like, the blood streaming from her forehead.
The crowd, shrieking, melted before her rush.
An old man was thrown down and trampled.
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