Connecticut western news., 1875-09-03
TWO BRAVE CHILDREN.

bbisspaosssesasanng r1 Lion of HIS Native Home
 and Keeping House Under a Tree
 y There is good stuff in those youngsters of Dr. Bakers, writes Lower Lake, California, correspondent. every one of them; but my yarn only concerns the two younger of the lot. One Sunday the little one, Jenny, 8 girl of six or osezen years, made her appeafaface in her znapther's room and demanded permis- sion, to, go out deer hunting with her brother. r. Claude is twelve years old,
 ana Killed deer about the size of buck rabbit one day, since when he can't rest a moment in the daytime and scarcely E;sleeps-a tnight. It,wasten o'clock when the children started, taking a dog with them. The mother Thought no more of them until dinner time in the: evening.
 Then she became alarmed. Night ap- Proa ching, she was half wild. All ! hands, consisting of some ten or twelve miners, eatarted sout,, aomeEon horseback and some on foot. ;, Night came ; dark
 ness settled down on the still valley with a quiet that seemed like death. The mother oceanic frantic.o She heard an occasional gun fired of. and knew that it 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 we'll as she could, and started after the crowd C It was midnight when she came Eap 5o them There was scarcely 8 half garment of any kind on her body. She seemed to have passed Thfougha dozen deaths all but the, dying. From the time she joined her husband and the other men she led the crowd, untl, about three o'clock in the morning, they heard dog bark, and in another moment were with the children, who were instantly awakened by the noise. Then it was: tsHowd'e do, mamma 2h'. and 3tHowd'e e do, papa ?" and ''Ain,t this. 8 splendid tree to keep house under 2" "We had to fight for it, though, ,"& said Claude.
 "See here-we had to kill ~ the first settler ;'' and sure enough there lay 8 California lion, one of the largest size,
 with 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 says he was crouched down like 8 cat, and not further away than across the room when they shot him. He i spfang right into the air and tumbled at their very feet. Before starting from the house one of the men had put some biscuits in his pocket, thinking the chil- sdrena would be hungry, and these he offered them. No, thank you,.,' said Jenny, sswe had 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. .i -..-- ....l .5. It 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 at that time, and had been hunting stock.
 All at once she saw pair of bright eyes looking at her from tuft of tall grass.
 "I'm going to see what you are, any how," she said. She got down from her horse, and soon found that the eyes be- longed to "the prettiest little darling she ever saw" There were more of them. but she only captured one speci- men and climbed back to her saddle.
 She had not gone half-mile before she
 heard something loping behind her.
 She turned around and saw lion. She
 put her horse to his best speed and al-
 most flew, she, says, but the horrid thing
 gained on her. "Of course, I knew
 what she wanted" said the child, "but
 I didn't intend to humor her selfshness.
 I didn't take but one, and | left her two,
 and that's as generous as any one need
 be. But she couldn't seem to see it.
 Anyhow, she just flew after us i; and old I Phil talk about his being fast horse Il I wanted to break his neck. The lion
 gained on us at every step, till at last l
 took her baby and threwit at her. sNow
 take it and leave, you stingy old thing,
 I 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 more comfort than
 to know that her children were all afraid
 of their own shadows; but they have
 never shown particle of eowardice ill
 their lives, nor their father before them.