Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-08-20
EVENING STAR.
Two Brave Children.
DIsPossEssING LION or HIS NArryEWcaE |
AND hEEPISG HOUSE UNDER TREE

DIsPosstssING LION or HIS NATIVE HONE
AND hhkfING HOUSE UNDER TREE.
- a correspondent OF the. san Francisco
ttToricle from Lower Lake. Lake coanty.
Ial., August =, says There Is COOL stufF II,
mos youngsters OF Or. naker s-every Que
OF uem; bat nv yarn only Concerns rbp two
younger OF the lot. Last Sunday tho lit,ls
one. Jenny, 8 girl of six or seven wears made
LSf appearance in her mothers nom aud de-
I man 81. permission 70 go out deer-hunung
WIN Aer broiher. Claude is twelve wears
oid, and killed deer about the 81 ye al a
puck rat bit one day last week since when
hc can rest moment in the DAYTIME AMI
scarcely sleeps at night. IL was 10 O'clock
when the children started, taking n doc win
tbtln- ice mother thought no more OF them
teIame alarmed. Night approaching She
was half Wild. All hands. consisting al some
Ten or Twelve miners, started out. some on
nor, eback And some on foot. Night came.
t&rkiCSs settled down on the still valley
VIII quiet that seemed like death The
Noter became frantic. She heard an Occa-
Sloual gun fred OF and knew that il was the
CCS'or ana men IN pursuit OF the lost chill
tren. SHE could not remain in the horse
another moment She TOOK the direction OF
tit guns report. rs wei as she could. and
Stslt'd alter the crowd. 70 was midnight
wei Sne came up 10 them. Tier was
Scaroeiy Ialf garment or any Kin. on har
5oNN. ST seemed 10 have passed through a
dozen t6athS-aii bUt tie diving. Fro., tho
TINE she joined her hu band and fba other
men she .ou me crowd until. about 3 o.cloo,y
IN Inc rlcrnin-, they heard - dog bark. anH
Mhp were instantly awakened 10y the noise
Then II was. HowI'e 60. mamnla"' ana
iii""d q %. papa and "Ain; thi~ a spleen
do tree 70 Keep house urler.' I'VE ba1 n
feht for Il. though" said CLAUDIO. .sSea hers.
We lad L. XII The first settler" and sure
enough there Iay
A CALIFORNIA LION.
cNe OF The lGrG = size, with a ball through
Us brain. claude had shot him after dari-
1EcN rad been los. nut the bow imagined
Ie had struck the home trail aui kent nm
@ 10 lfraHn
Jenny say : he was crOuchcd down like cat
ana Lui iurttCT away than across the room
when iLeE shot him. lie spraug right into
t4le air ana tumbled at their very feet. Be-
lore starting from the house one of the men
L3i lEt some biscuits in his pocket, think
ING ne children woHli be hungry, aud these
jenny, ave had QuailS for SUPPER" They
hai taken matches and Claude had shot Tue
lEai-5. These they had roasted on a stick.
dnt OF course they were not hungry II wa
an elder sister of these two plucEy vonpr-
sleIs WHO was out ca horseback in a very
Ni.d tract OF country. she was about II
years OLD at that time, and had been hunt
ing stock. All at once she saw pair of very
bright eyes looking n her from a tuft of tai!
grass: N going 10 see what you are. any
how, she said. She got down from ne, horse
and soon found that the ewes belonged "a
THE PRETTIEST LITTLE DARLING SHE
EVER SAW"
There were more of them. but she only
captured one specimen and climbed back TO
ger sadie. She had not gone half "A mile be-
fore she heard something Ioping behind her
she turned around ana saw g lion. She nut
her horse 10 his best speed. and almost flew,
vie said, but the hOrr a thiBE Zained on her.
"Of course. knew wlat ste wanted said
The child; ''6ut didn't intend TO hunor her
seinshHesS. dldD take bat one and LETT
her two, and that's as generous as any one
need be. Bat she couldn't seem 10 see IL
ANYHOW, she Just few after rs; and Old
FnlI-taik about his being a fast horSe-I
wanted To break his neck. The lion gained
.i US az every step, till at last took her
leave, you stingy old thing said: and she
CO; She Jlst grabbed him up in her mouth
ana put oil, and came home" The mother
says mat nothing would give her more COM
Tort than to know that her children were an
AFRAID Of their own shadows; but they have
never shown particle OF cowardice in their
lives, nor their father before them