The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-02
RANDE'S RUTHLESS RANGERS;
The Three Trainps' Terrific Termination

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Twas evening
The sun silently setting, shot silvcry streams,
strcwing Starved Rocks salient, stony, stohd,
>tupcndous steep!
Twas cvening-cr.
And the Villain still pursued her. And
Buffalo Rocks broad bold, beautiful, BLIZZARD
.bcdcv. ,..g bozom bcamcd bcnlgny, bleakly, bald
'ly bare!
Twas cyening-cr yet
And the villain still pursued her" And Il
single, solitary horscman might have been seen
CON FOOT mcandcrinG (meandering is the right
his way up the railway track
He was armed with double-barreled shotgun,
loaded with dynamite powder influenced (iniiu.
encc is what we mcan)-intluenced by quart of
nitro-glyccrinc. He had also concealed about
his person, ON the outside a flask, in the north
east pocket Of his overcoat, which loatcd grace.
fully in the breeze, Cthc coat hoatcd, not the
flask the wind being SW and bc-south, (naught-
ically cypresscdD and in his SOU east pocket
bologna sausage, part @nawed up. He was also
provided with Il box of q. ID. caps g. d. stands
for goose disturber, game discomftcr, grim death
and gigantic DESTROYER
Our hcro's name is--but what's in IL name ?"
Suffice it that he is artist in the dried leaf line
He was out on an mRoltj, German for Through
leave of absencc.) He had threaded the may
swamps Of the region referred to in pursuit Of
ducks, tigers, geese, lions, brandt, elephants,
pcwccs, giratlcs, blue jays, ptcrodactyls, SPUR
rcls, mcgathcriums, mud-hens, 'hipopOtam, snow
birds, rabbits, dinosaur, cat birds, ichthiosauri,
or any other wild game that might be found
prowling around loose among those swamps and
jungcs.
Twas cyCningcr some mOrCly.
"And the villain still pursued her" And
our hero hunter hearing huge, heavy, horrid,
hideous howlngs, hied him hastily homeward.
Twas cvcning-cr more numerously.
And the villain still pursued her" And
drcary, dcaiening, dreadful, dismal darkness
drawing down, the gloomy cleaning gathered
ghostly ghasty, gibberng gnomes, gliding,
glarng, cleaning, gigantic ghouls, --Goo1
gracious.
Twas evening most intensely.
And the villain still pursued her. And
atlwart the gloom hurried, hateful sounds smote
his troubled ear. Twas the whisperings of hui
man voices, out aloud. Twas Inc llfec lcTIlDlc
tramps-thc train-wrcckcrs Of Randcs ruthless
robbers, roting rampant on human gore expect.
ant, of trains dashed to atoms Of screams Of
women and walls of children, and shricks Of the
dying, in one fell confusion hurled.-thc agoniz-
ing death schrccchcs of manglcd victims III 4 sea
Of gore
and the villain still pursued her.
On he came stealthily creeping towards the
three vile miscrcants. He stopped and his ears
drank in their fearful plot-thcirs the mission to
wreck trains with hooks" and Jimmy claws"
and the awful weapons Of their trade;-an his,
ha, villains, to avcngc in advance their hellish
schemes, to nip in the bud the tree of their vile
premcditatcd deeds, to strike down the bandittl
in their tracks and send them hence, unshriyed,
nrcpcntant, unwcpt, unknellcd, mpiticd, I'M
mimousy!
\ flash of light from a passing train revealed
him to them, and disclosed TO him their hideous
forms They wheeled, they fired a revolver See,
he falls! NO. With ample presence of mind he
discharges both barrels Of his trusty gun full up
on thcm-and amidst the cries Of the wounded
and the groans of the dying he energies fortown.
Their ghosts still haunt the valley and perch
o nights on Rcddick's barn, and the owls and
bats flee Mt their approach
"And the villain still pursued her. BE&Mrs.