The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-18
Adteutnr0us Children.

4 correspondent of the San Francis
co, Chronicle, who writes from Lower
Lake, Lake County, CAL, tells the adj
ventures Of two juveniles in that local
ity:
There is good stuff in those young
sters of DIR. Baker's-every one OF
them hut my yarn only concerns the
two younger of the lot. Last Sunday
the little one, Jenny, a girl of six or
seven years, made her appearance IN
her mothers room, demanding permits
sion TO go out deer hunting with her
brother. Claude is twelve years old,
and killed a deer about the size of a
buck rabbit ono day last week, since
when he can't rest moment in the
daytime, and scarcely rests of night. 1t
started, taking a 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, consist
ing of come ten or twelve miners,
started out, some on hors shack and
some on foot. Night came; darkness
settled down on the still valley with
quiet that seemed like death. The
mother became frantic. She heard an
occasional gun fred off and knew that it
was the doctor and men in pursuit of
the lost children. She could not re
main In the house another moment.
She took the direction of the guns re-
port as we'll as she could and started
after the crowd. It was midnight when
she came up to them. There was
scarcely half garment of any kind on
her body, She seemed to have passed
through a dozen deaths-all but the
dying. From the time she joined her
husband and the other men size led the
crowd until, about three o'clock in the
morning, they heard dog bark, and in
another moment were with the chill
dren, who were instantly wakened by
the nois. Then it was. Howd'e DO.
mamma ?" and "Howd'e do. papa ?"
house under?" We had to fight for it,
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 a 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 a cat and not
further away than across the room
when they shot him. He spraDg 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 children
would be hungry, and these he offered
to them. "No, thank you," said
Jenny, 1--WE had quail 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. It was an elder sister
of these two plucky youngsters who
was out on horseback in q very wild
tract of country. She was about twelve
years old at that. time, and had been
hunting stock. All at once she saw a
pair of bright eyes looking at her from
. tuft of tall grass. "Tm going to see
what you are anyhow" she said. She
got down from her horse, and soon
found that the eyes belonged to "the
There were more of them, but she only |
captured one specimen and climbed
pack to her saddle. She had not gone |
aaif mile before she heard something |
oping behind her. She turned around |
md saw a lion. She put her horse to |
lis best speed, and almost few, she |
,ays, but the horrid thing gained on
1er. "Of course I knew what she |
said the child, "but didn't |
intend to humor her sel6seness. I |
lidn't take but one, and left her two,
md that's as generous as anyone need |
De. But she couldn't seem to see it. |
Anyhow, she just flew after us and old |
9hil-talk about his being fast horse |
Il wanted to break his neck. The
ion gained on us at every step, till at |
asst I took her baby and threw it at
Ter. Now take it and leave, you
tingy old thing I said and she did
he just grabbed him up in her mouth
nd put off, and I came home" The
mother says that nothing would give
Ter more comfort than to know that her |
hildren were all afraid of their own
hadows, But not one of them has
yer shown a particle of cowardice in
heir lives, nor their father before
F1orn