Baron Sebastian von Trump
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At the top the yoke was bound by a leather thong to the animal's horns.
So long therefore as the beast held his head naturally or even lowered it to graze, the yoke was drawn forward, and the hook was kept free from the ground.
But the very moment the animal raised his head in the air at once the hook was thrown into the ground, and he was prevented from taking another step forward.
Now, dear readers, you may or may not know that when a cleft hoofed animal starts to ascend a steep bank, the
Unlike a solid hoofed beast, he throws his head into the air instead of lowering it.
And therefore it struck me at once that the purpose of this yoke was to keep the cattle from making their way up the sides of the mountain and getting lost.
But why should they want to clamber up the mountainsides?
Simply because there was some kind of grass or herbage growing up there which was a delicacy to them, and knowing, as I well did, what risks animals will take, and what fatigue they will undergo to reach a favourite grazing ground, it struck me at once that if I would make it possible for them to reach this favourite food of theirs, they would be very glad to give me a lift on my way.
No sooner said than done, I forthwith retraced my steps until I fell in with a group of these cattle, and it did not take me many minutes to loosen their yokes from their horns and tie the hooks up under their bodies, so that their progress uphill would not be interfered with.
They were delighted to find themselves so unexpectedly freed from the hateful drawback, which permitted them merely to view the coveted grazing grounds from the street.
Afar, and then having cut me a suitable goad, I again started up the mountain, driving my new friends leisurely on ahead of me.
Upon reaching the spot where the superstitious peasants had thrown the tackle to the ground, I proceeded to load it upon the back of the gentlest beast of the lot, and was soon on my way again.
End of Chapter four
Up and still up and through the quarries of the demons.
How the cattle kept the trail?
and how we came at last upon the brink of the giant's well.
The terraces are safely passed, beginning of the descent into the well itself.
All difficulties overcome, said
We reached the edge of Polyphemus's funnel.
Generally speaking, people with very large heads are fitted out by nature with a pair of rather pipe stemmy legs, but such was not my case.
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