For a while , she listened to the pleasant murmur of the sea , which was like a voice saying `` Hush ! '' and bidding her go to sleep . But the pretty child , if she slept at all , could not have slept more than a moment , when she heard something trample on the grass , not far from her , and , peeping out from the heap of flowers , beheld a snow-white bull . And whence could this bull have com ? Europa and her brothers had been a long time playing in the meadow , and had seen no cattle , nor other living thing , either there or on the neighboring hills . `` Brother Cadmus ! '' cried Europa , starting up out of the midst of the roses and lilies . `` Phoenix ! Cilix ! Where are you all ? Help ! Help ! Come and drive away this bull ! '' But her brothers were too far off to hear ; especially as the fright took away Europa 's voice , and hindered her from calling very loudly . So there she stood , with her pretty mouth wide open , as pale as the white lilies that were twisted among the other flowers in her garlands . Nevertheless , it was the suddenness with which she had perceived the bull , rather than anything frightful in his appearance , that caused Europa so much alarm . On looking at him more attentively , she began to see that he was a beautiful animal , and even fancied a particularly amiable expression in his face . As for his breath -- the breath of cattle , you know , is always sweet -- it was as fragrant as if he had been grazing on no other food than rosebuds , or at least , the most delicate of clover blossoms . Never before did a bull have such bright and tender eyes , and such smooth horns of ivory , as this one . And the bull ran little races , and capered sportively around the child ; so that she quite forgot how big and strong he was , and , from the gentleness and playfulness of his actions , soon came to consider him as innocent a creature as a pet lamb .
Thus , frightened as she at first was , you might by and by have seen Europa stroking the bull 's forehead with her small white hand , and taking the garlands off her own head to hang them XXXXX his neck and ivory horns .
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