Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-12
Hunting in Kansas.

On those prairies where buffalo and
deer and antelope have run 80 many
years, there are vast quantities OF old
bones lying about. These old bones
are OF some commercial value. My
{ brother aud I drew in rather over q
hundred tons during one winter. It
was a three days trip to go out on the
plains and get load. While out on
these bone trips, we made considerable
account of jack-rabbits; we had two
greyhounds on purpose to hunt them,
and to hunt antelopes. I did most Of
the hunting; my brother was . little
lame that season from "hoist" he had
received off q reaper. We had one OF
the heetest ponies for running I have
ever seen. We called her Gilly.
would get up before sunrise, call in
Sport and Grip (the two greyhounds).
then mount Gilly, and start after jack.
rabbit for breakfast. One morning we
got after pretty big jack. and ran him
past an emigrant party hauled up for
the night. Two men and women were
stirring about; and I saw two nice,
rosy girls peering out of the back end
of a wagon. They looked so inspiring
that 1 thought 1 would show them lit.
tie fancy riding. So I touched Gilly
and told her to go. At that, she Just
reached out those white legs of hers
and Strengthened to it. Oh, she went
like an arrow after the hounds and rast
that schooner, and away on across the
prairie. And, right in the midst of her
keenest run, she broke into wolf
hole Believe it or not, the mare
turned a complete somersault But l
wasn't in the saddle when she turned
it: had gone on, and went on; went
on my head, went on my knees, went
every way. was more than fifty feet
from my pony when finally stopped !!
Sport and Grip pulled up to see me 60,
and the jackie stopped and looked.
The wolf came out Of the ground and
looked, too. They were all so inter
ested in it, that they entirely forgot
each other. And back at the wagon
saw six or seven men, women and girls,
standing notionless, with their mouths
open. When I, at length, got up, such
"ha ha !" came waited on the wind
as I shall not forget soon. 1t hurt me
outrageously. I got up feeling as if I
were a hundred and one years old. As
for the jack, he had taken leave; and
the dogs were barking into the wolf
hole.
Another young fellow, named Adney
Clark, and myself once ran jack.rab.
bit under settlers house, which stood
out by itself on the prairie. The rab-
bit ran up to it and crawled under the
sill. The hounds could not get under.
We went round the house and then into
it. There was no ono at home.
We were determined to have that jack,
anyhow. So we pulled up two or three
boards of the floor, and Ad took
the fire poker and got down
under he floor to poke out the
jack. He had not been down there
long when he uttered screech and
came out at one jump, with great big
rattlesnake hanging to his bootleg I
grabbed the chair and killed the snake.
Ad was go weak he could not stand
alone and could scarcely speak. I
pulled off his boot. But there was no
mark on him. Fortunately, the snake
had only bitten his boot leg. We then
poked out the jack and the hounds
grabbed him.
And at another time, when eight or
ten of us We're out racing down jacks,
with as many as thirteen hounds, we
all got after one big fellow, and at
length ran him into an old deserted
"dig out"
A "dig-out," or root-out," is a
house dug in the ground, and the floor
of it is very often four or five feet be-
low the level of the soil. The door of
this one was gone. The jack, being
pretty hard run, darted in there. In
went the whole pack of hounds after
him, and there was no end of pow
WOW. Round about they went, yelping
and growing down there in the dark.
We thought there wouldn't be much
left of that jack when, by and by, out
he came and leaped away, leaving all
the hounds in there tumbling over one
another, and the end OF the business
was that we had to go in and haul those
dogs out by the legs.-St. Nicholas.
Mr.. Millais, the famous English art
list, and brother-in-law of Mr.. Lester
Wallack, tells this good anecdote con-
nected with himself. He was intro
duced to a lady whom he was to take
No"A w uAuuCis OuG AOAtAOI A0 hOI LIS
partner caught the others name. Once
seated at table the lady opened fire with
the usual stock questions. Have you
been to the Academy" "I have"
said Mr.. Millais. "And did you no.
tice that odious old Millais' pictures? "
Well, yes saw them" Presently
the champagne came round. Said Mr..
Millais, with his best smile, ct am 60
ing to ask you to take wine with me,
and not mere sip, but to drain your
glass, to strengthen your nerves" The
lady pledged him accordingly. Then
said the artist quietly, "Now that you
are fortified, I may venture to tell you
that I am the odious old Millais." The
lady put up her hands in horror.
"Good gracious! was all that she could
find to express herself.
AN IGNoBLE PAss1oN.-Jealousy is
the meanest of passions, for most fire.
quently it is an effect without a cause
"a monster engendered in the imagin-
alton of its victim; and feeding alike