"The Bull in a China Shop" is a pretty piece of music. The band at Madison Square Garden, the scene of the present horse and cow show, plays it well at all times, but never did the musicians handle it more sympathically than at yesterday afternoon's performance.

The 6,000 spectators were hanging upon the melody, when a mouse-colored Texas bull leaped from the arena among the boxes above the Madison Avenue entrance. This cut short the music and spread consternation among the spectators and the band players, who sit near these boxes.

The programme said that Miss Lucille Mulhall would perform the daring and dangerous feat of ropng and tying two wild Texas bulls. Miss Mulhall, five cowboys, and two Texas long-horns appeared in the arena. The boys were to drive the bulls around the arena, whereupon Miss Mulhall was to do the roping act.

The bulls made the circuit twice. The mouse-colored animal, known among the boys as "Ratty Long Horn," got tired of the circula business. Like a thoroughbred steeplechaser, he took at one jump three bars that closed an entrance to a tier of boxes. He stood still, coolly surveying the situation. Then, throwing his tail up and bellowing like a young bull calf just turned out on the green, he went cavorting up the aisle. He showed by his demeanor that he wasn't angry; he was just full of unconfinable energy.

On account of the "daring danger" of the feat, the musicians were putting the grand tremolo to "The Bull in a China Shop." The arm of the trombone man was extended to its utmost, the basses were purring gently but intensely, and the reeds were softly crying with apprehension. The bandmaster's muscle-drawn arm was tremoloing like a dying leaf.

"Whoof!" The bullw as almost upon the bass drum beater. The man threw down his pounder and, neatly ramming his foot through the drumhead, ran for his life. All the other musicians ran. Spectators scrambled, the women screaming.

Policeman George O. Clinchey of the Leonard Street Station rushed to the rescue. The mouse-colored Texan turned his horns toward Clinchey; the bluecoat fled.

Then the five cowboys went up to the conquest. The bull ran playfully among the boxes. He was roped ultimately, however, and led and pushed down the aisle up which he had ambled so jauntily some fifteen minutes before. Then the show went on.

Just thirty minutes before the bull episode Charles Mulhall, seventeen years old, got so dizzy while "breaking a bronco" that he fell from his mount. The little frizzled bay ran around him, and Mr. Mulhall was not injured.