The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-08-27
The Wonderful Adventures Of Two Cal.
ifornia children.


A correspondent II the San Francisco
thronseIe seEds that paper the follow
ing story from Lower Lake, Lake Coun
\ ", California. nfut
There is good stuff in those young
sters of DIR. Bakers every one Of
them; but my yarn only concerns the
two younger Of the lot. Last SUNDAY
the little one, Jenny, girl Of ii, or
seven years, made her appearance in
her mothers room, and demanded per-
mission Ia go out deer hunting with
I her brother. Claude is about ~ wears
old, and killed deer about the size If
a buck rabbit one day last week, since
when he can't rest moment in the
daytime, and scarcely SLEEPS Of nights.
I II was 10 O'Clock when the children
started, taking dog with them. The
mother thought no more Of them until
dinner time in the evening Then She
became alarmed. Night approaching.
She was half wild All hands, con
sistlng Of some ten or twelve miners
started out, sosne on horseback and
some on foot. Night came darkness
settled down on the still valley with a
quiet that seemed like death. The
mother became frantic. She heard an
occasional gun fired of, and knew that
Il was the doctor and men in pursuit If
the lost children. She could not re-
main in the house another moment
She took the direction Of the guns re-
ports, rs wei as she could and started
after the crowd. Ii was midnight when
she came up 10 them. There was
scarcely half garment of any Kind
80 h.4r h.. H..
ed through dozen deaths-all bat the
dying. From the time she Joined her
husband and the other men she led the
crowd until, about 5 O'Clock in the
morning, they heard adog bark, and in
another moment were with the chill
dren, who were instantly Weakened by
the noise. Then il was, ''Iiow de- do,
mamma?" and elbow de do, papa?''
and .'Aint this splendid tree TO keep
house under?'' '.Ne had 10 fight for
Il. though, - said Claude. .'See here
we had to kill the first settler" and
sure enough there lay California lion,
one Of the largest size, with q ball
through his brain. Claude had shot
him after dark. They had been lost,
but the boy imagined he had struck the
home trail. and kept running on until
he met the lion and shot him. Jenny
saws he was crouched down like a cat.
and not farther away than across the
room when they shot him. He sprang
right into the air and tumbled at their
very feet. Before starting from the
house one Of the men had put some bis
cults in his pocket, thinking the chill
drcn would be hungry, and these he
offered them. $40, thank YOU, ;" said
Jenny, ''we had griails for supper
They had taken matches aud Claude had
shot the quail-; these they had roasted
on a stick. and % course they were not
hungry. II was an elder sister Of these
two plucky Youngsters, who was out on
horseback in very wild tract Of coun-
try. She was about twelve years old az
that time, and had been hunting stock
All at once she saw pair Of bright eyes
looking at her from a tuft of tall grass
'l'm going 10 see what YOU are, any
how. she said She got down from
her horse, and soon found that the ewes
belonged to ''the prettiest little darling
she ever saw
There were more of them, but she
only captured one specimen and climb
ed back to her saddle. She had not
gone half n mile before She heard some
thing looping behind her. She turned
around and saw lion. She put her
horse to 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 10 humor her sclfishneSs. did
MT take but one, and left her two.
and that's as generous as any one need
be. But she couldn't seem TO 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 mt every step, till
AT last took her baby and threw it at
her. Now take il and leave, you
stingy old thing. ! said and she did;
she just grabbed him up in her mouth
and put Off, and came home" The
mother SAYS that nothing would give
her more comfort than to know that her
were all afraid Of their own
shadows. But not one Of them has ev-
er shown a particle Of cowardice in
their lives nor thpir faf ber before thcn.