Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-12

Dispesscssing . Lion Of his Native
Rome snd Keeping House Unaer
q Tree-Lest in the Woods.
We Gin tho following Interesting

Chronicles Lake County, CAL, coz
rcspondence:
There is good stuff in those young
sters of DR.. Bsker's--eyefy one oi
them; bat my yarn only concerns the
two younger of the lot. Last Sun
day the little one, Jenny, girl of
six or seven years, made her appear
ance in her mothers r,som, demanded
permission to 60 out deer limiting
with her brother. Claude is twelve
wears old, and killed deer about the
size of buck rabbit one day last
week. since when he can't rest mo
ment in the day time and scarcely
sleeps of night. 1t was 10 O'Clock
when the children started, tskiag =
dog with them. The mother ID ug.it
no more OF them uai. eGlgner time in
the evening. Then she became alarm
ed. Night approaching she was half
wild. All hands, consisting of some
ten or twelve miners, started out some
ou horseback and some on foot.
Night came; darkness settled down
on the still valley with quiet that
seemed like death. The mother be-
came frantic. She heard an occasion
al gun fired off and knew thatit was
the Doctor and men in pursuit of the
lost children. She could not remain
in the house another moment. She
took the direction Of the guns report
as well as she could, and started after
the crowd. II was midnight when
she came up to them. There was
scarcely a half garment of any kind
on her body. She seemed to have
uassed through a dozen deaths-al
but the dying. From the time she
,oined her husband and the ether
men she led the crowd until, about
O'Clock in the morning, they heard
deg bark, and in another moment
were with the children, who were il
stsntly Weakened by the noise. Then
it was, ~Howd'e do, mammaw and
~Howd'e do, papa2" and Amt this
splendid tree 70 keep house underf"
We Rad 70 SIGHT for it, though. said
Claude. ~'See here--we had TO kill
the first settler" and sure enough
there lay
a CALIFORNIA LION,
9ne of the largest size, WITH a bali
sh-ongh kis brain. Clawie had shot
him after dark. They had been lost,
but the boy had imagined he had
struck the home trail and Kept run
ming on until he met the lion and
shot him. Jenny says he was crouch
cd down like cat and not farther
away than across the room when they
shot him. He sprang right into the
air and tumbied at their very feet.
Before starting from the house one Of
the men had put some biscuits in his
pocket thinking the children would
be hungry, aud these he offered them.
NO, thank you," said Jenny, I'VE hsd
quails for supper" They had taken
matches and Claude had shot the
quails; these they had roasted on a
stick, and of course they were not
hungry. 1t was an elder sister of
these two plucky youngsters. who was
out on horseback in very wild tract
of country. She was about twelve
wears old at that time, and had been
hunting stock. All at once she saw
pair of bright eyes looking at her
from q tuft Of tall grass. am going
To see what you are, anyhow, said
she. She got down from her horse,
and soon found that the eyes belong
ed to
THE PRETMEsr LITTLE pARI ING SHE
xvgY CAV
There were more OF them, Aut she
only captured one specimen and
climbed back to her saddle. She had
not gone half nriie before She heard
something losing behind her. She
turned aroundAand saw lion. She
put her horse 10 his best speed and
almost flew, she says. but the horrid
thing gained on. her. ''of course, |
knew what she wanted" said the
child, @but didn't intend to hunaor
her selflshness. ! didnttake but ono,
and left her two, and that's as gen
erous as anyone need be. But she
couldn't seem 10 see il Anyhow,
she Just flew after us; and old Phil
talk about his being fast horse. |
wanted TO break his neck. The lion
gained on US at every step, till at last
/ took her baby and threw ii her.
Now take it and leave, you stingy
old thing I said; and she did, she
just grabbed him up in her mouth
and put OF and ! came hon,e-- The
mother says that nothing would give
her more comfort than TO know that
her children were all afraid of their
own shadows. But not one of them