The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-20
place. Diyl the lick viii ever sthrke here
again its the diyils own child he isl
PROG HUNTING.

place. Diyil the lick win | ever sthrke here
again irs the divirs own child henP'
FROG HUNTING.
Pete began 10 gather up his clothes and tools
with the Intention % yacating the place. when
he stopped and gazed wistfully at his pro spect-
Ing hole. " promising place It was too IN the
away by a dirty little haste ike your Nn;IH
give him warmth vet. ami all the likes Of MIN.
nut on his coat and struck cut for home. turn
ing t. shake bis gst toward the pond as he de-
parted
The next morning Pete went up 20 Johntown
and borrowed a shotgun he then bought aquan-
tity OF powder and sho, ana returned 20 lis
claim, saving as he strobe along, III NIL that
frog, II It's among the poss billtics !:
on reaching the claim he crawled 10 a rock
near the edge of the pond. and seating himself
upon II, watched tor some hOurs, but the goblin
frog was neither TO be seen nor heard.
He has run away. SAID Pete put III XIII
earth"
lie then moved along down the canon. and
he blazed away aud stretched the creature dead
on the margin OF the rilL lie was just teetn-
ming to rejoice over the victory he hal gained,
when W from the spot sprung another frog. the
very picture OF that he had Killed. PETE looked
at this new apparition, and then turned and
gazed upon the slaughtered amin al TO be sure IL
was dead. Finding 1t was stretched lifeless on
the ground. he went after the second frog. THIS
hunt down the canon. All that DAY he hunted
fross. blazing away at everything that moved In
The next day he bought more ammunition
and again went on the war path along the can m.
frng 80 frequently that some Of tue miners
above thought that the Plutes had attackcd the
settlers az the mouth Of the Cahon. The next day
aud the next. and right alcng for n week. Pete
hunted the ca6on, always beginning with the
pond 90 bis claim. and keeuing up a murderous
hre az often as he a frog, or the suspicion 81
one. Not satisfied with tnls. be hunted the
banks OF the Carson river Tor mile or two u
and down about the mouth Of the canon. He
talked Of nothing but frogs for fortni -ht,
bought and fred away whole SACKS Of shot and
pound after mound 4 powder. and seemed g. be
aim ost insane ON frogs. But he tlast conclu ed
that he had Gle ned them all out, INA the goJiin
frog anon. tue rest.
HE STRUCK IT AT LAST
One morning. TO the surprise % his neighbors
f., the ranp. VINO had been watching him curl
uusly fur some days. instead Of starring Tut with
and dep irted down tue can In tue direction
VI ms claim.
An hour a,er Pete came tearing bsck 70 camp.
"IIl niver stnrke pick Until the canon again %
cried ne. Iuat imp y hell + siill tuere On ne
claim | was bIt hftin ma DIRT for me second
pan whin he raised his head from the wather
aud ser. Pete. have We sthrucs ~ seq be. May
whole bloody cshOn; II river sthrike picS Until
/ II again No more will. That frog Is no human
froc-it's child o. henI'
Pete Kept bis word he never mined ~ the
canon again. lie left Tor six Nile Cih)n to hunt
a place not haunted Oy demon frog. and he
had not mined many weeks before he and his
partner. Pat Mclaughlin. struck IL, struck II !
struck IL struck the great C1mstock silver
lode. the hidden treasure house q the gnomes
ana the wouder OF the whole mining world. He
Was. As be alsays believed. driven into THIS grea
good fortune bS goolin iro-