Hemingway Adventure
Pamplona, Spain (fourth day)

This leaves the ring full of several hundred amateurs. A couple of American boys from Arizona who I'd met earlier in the day have run for the second time. Their eyes are shining as they shout at me from the other side of the barrier.
'It was incredible.'
'Frightening?'
'Terrifying! But we did it! We did it!'
'Now you're used to it will you become a regular?'
'No way! No way!'
At that moment a gate swings open and they leap to safety over the barrier. They needn't have worried. The animal that is released for the amateurs to try their skills on is not a bull, but a thin, though sprightly, cow with the points of its horns taped. It frisks off amongst the crowd, picking off people here and there. The crowd is very fair, any attempt to grapple the cow to the ground or even pull its tail being roundly booed.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Hemingway Adventure
- Chapter: Pamplona, Spain (fourth day)
- Country/sea: Spain
- Place: Pamplona
- Book page no: 106
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