Excerpt from The Flying Inn Why Should there be a Bull he cried, prolonging the word in his own way. Why Should there be a Bull in connexion with a festive locality? Who thinks about a Bull in gardens of delight? What need is there of a Bull when we watch the tulip-tinted maidens dance or pour the sparkling sherbet? You yourselves, my friends - and he looked around radiantly, as if addressing an enormous mob you yourselves have a proverb, It is not calculated to promote prosperity to have a Bull in a china-shop.' Equally, my friends, it would not be calculated to promote prosperity to have a Bull in a wine-shop. All this is clear. He stuck his umbrella upright in the sand and struck one finger against another, like a man getting to business at last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.