bull's forehead with her small white hand, and
taking the garlands off her own head to hang
them on his neck and ivory horns. Then she
pulled up some blades of grass, and he ate them
out of her hand, not as if he were hungry, but
because he wanted to be friends with the child,
and took pleasure in eating what she had
touched. Well, my stars! was there ever such
a gentle, sweet, pretty, and amiable creature as
this bull, and ever such a nice playmate for a
little girl?

When the animal saw, (for the bull had so
much intelligence that it is really wonderful to
think of,) when he saw that Europa was no
longer afraid of him, he grew overjoyed, and
could hardly contain himself for delight. He
frisked about the meadow, now here, now there,
making sprightly leaps, with as little effort as a
bird expends in hopping from twig to twig. In-
deed, his motion was as light as if he were flying
through the air, and his hoofs seemed hardly to
leave their print in the grassy soil over which he
trod. With his spotless hue, he resembled a
snow drift, wafted along by the wind. Once he
galloped so far away that Europa feared lest

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