All at once, like the bursting of a dam, the whole mass pours down into the ring.

They sweep across the arena and over the showman's barriers.

Miguel gets a frightful trampling.

Who cares for gates or doors?
They tear the beasts' houses bar from bar, and, laying hold of the gaunt buffalo, drag him forth by feet, ears, and tail; and in the midst of the _melee_, still head and shoulders above all, wilder, with the cup of the wicked, than any beast, is the man of God from the Florida parishes! In his arms he bore--and all the people shouted at once when they saw it--the tiger.

He had lifted it high up with its back to his breast, his arms clasped under its shoulders; the wretched brute had curled up caterpillar-wise, with its long tail against its belly, and through its filed teeth grinned a fixed and impotent wrath.