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but one day Its liberty obtained. The poor old man was unaware The bull had broke its chain, Until the beast upon him turned Ere he the door could gain. The dumb girl neared the open shed, As she the threshold crossed; Oh! dreadful sight, her father high By savage bull was tossed. She could not hear if help was nigh, She could not call for aid; So quick to rescue him she ran, Too brave to feel afraid. One hand she slipped within a ring, That through its nose was placed; And with her father's stick upraised, The angry bull she faced. Oh! then ensued a struggle, fit To fill her heart with dread; While at her feet her father lay, To all appearance dead. Long and fierce the battle raged Between the bull and maid; Nor would she yield, tho' by its horns Her side was open laid. Blow after blow upon its head, With heavy stick she rained, Until the savage beast was cowed, And she the victory gained. And then the stick away she threw, (But held on as before,) Her father with one arm she raised, And slowly neared the door. Then back into the shed she forced The bull, and slammed the door, While in her aching, bleeding arms, Her father's form she bore. But, sad to say, her father dear, Whom thus to save she tried, Had been so injured by the bull, In one short hour he died. An orphan now, alone and poor, Homeless, and deaf and dumb; Oh, who will help some christian friends, To make for her a home? If you who read these simple lines, With speech and hearing blest, And have it in your power to aid And comfort the distressed, Oh! think of this brave-hearted girl, And help her in her need;-- With voice and pen on her behalf For timely help I plead. A VICTORY. Peter Sims, a deaf and dumb boy, was walking past a large shop one day in winter, when he saw a beautiful pair of skates in the window. He had often wished for skates that he might skate upon the ice, and when he saw these he desired to have them. He looked; no one was watching; he thought, "I can take these skates easily, and no one will know." Before he had been sent to school this boy had been a very bad
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