In England, a bullocks is a castrated male bovine.
Envious, maybe you have the wrong bible version on?
Narrative distance refers to the difference between the character's point of views and the reader's point of view. All the characters in a story exist with some amount of distance between themselves. Close and distant narrative styles simply refer to the amount of distance between the readers and the characters. Hope this helps.
Americans of European extraction and slaves contributed greatly to the population of growth in the Republic and state of Texas