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Animals: Note on Bulls

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Last week, Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn matador, home from Spain for a vaudeville engagement (see p. 18), told a New York Evening Post newsman that bulls do not go berserk when they see red. Said he, “That is nonsense. . . . The bull charges a moving object. . . . The matador uses a red cape for esthetic reasons—it will not show bloodstains.”

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