Brahma bulls around the house This story comes from some of my earlier memories when I was about 4 years old. We were living in the house where I had been a proud owner of a doll until Dad's boss, Tom Brannon, had told me that big boys don't play with dolls. Tom's son had made a deal to pasture the rodeo stock during the rodeo in Marietta. But he did not inform his father that he had made the deal. The first Mother knew about it was when trucks arrived and dropped the brahma bulls in the pasture around the house. There was no fence around the house so the bulls were able to come right up to the house. And because the bulls were dropped in the pasture during the day, while Donal was at school. Mother was not able to get from the house out to the mail box. And as the time drew near for Donal's bus to drop him off Mother grew more and more frantic. She couldn't leave the house and she was sure that the bulls would kill Donal when he came across the pasture from school. Then she saw the bus let Donal off. Donal started across the pasture with Mother yelling at him, trying to tell him about the danger. Just at that time Dad's boss came driving in from the south. Tom did not see Donal because Donal was coming straight from the gate to the house and not following the looping road. Tom drove back and picked up Donal from near the creek and brought him safely home. Then Tom went to see his son! The next day the rodeo stock was removed from the pasture. During the roundup of the rodeo stock, there was a brindle bull that jumped out of the corral clearing the six-foot fence in the process. Dad took us to the rodeo and I only remember two things about it. There was a white bull that threw its rider as it came out of the chute and the brindle bull, that cleared the fence out at our house, threw its rider. Then when the clown made a dive into his barrel to escape the bull, it hit the barrel so hard it knocked the clown out of the barrel. Then the bull almost got the clown as he made a dive through the fence. Thurmon