His gaze seemed bent on some object near the base of the hill--though from where I stood I could see nothing there to frighten him.
"I had not time to reflect what it could be, before the bull uttered a fresh snort; and, raising his tail high into the air, struck off at full gallop over the plain! "Rejoiced at seeing this, I thought no more of what had relieved me of his company.

It must have been my curious fall, I concluded; but no matter now that the brute was gone.

So seizing hold of my gun, I prepared to descend from the elevated position, of which I was thoroughly tired.
"Just as I had got half down the side, I chanced to look below; and there was the object that terrified the old bull.

No wonder.

It might have terrified anything,--the odd-looking creature that it was.