, 1881-04-24

Hroo:lya Eng1e.
''It's all very well, strangers, for you tt
| chin about gittin' lo.s O. qllaiI and ducks. bu
wilar live we call that yer. slim shootin'
now you hear 1ne. Only gals shoot birds ou
my way"
II suppose you have much larger game, y
suggested I'LL admirlng bystandcr who had
been telling how lie bagged sunle robbins
| over in Jersey in tile fall Of '5G.
Now you're talking lunguage-b'ars, buf-
faloes, elephants, ca1neE, girailes, kyotes,
| luastodons is nothing fer lis to Eit. laid in
! 4 stock u jack tigers year atore lust that
would make you fetlers weep with latter fer
to see 'cln, and people come fur Il thousand
mile to see my coral O polar bars, captered
right onto my own premises"
.'WOl1't you take little something ?"
asked a man who had heretofore paralyzeu
tic mob with his wild.duck stories.
You might stir little slleetlightnin'
into so1ne .lssafetlity, and gimme q squirt u
yitriUl into it,' observed the stranger. Pm
accustomed to powerful stuff, but got hurt
in seal fight, anu I1ev to drink puuty light
now" , ..
Tile stranger slipped i'll silence Il moment
and then opened up: You see, the Gle
plants had been stealin' MY he1,s for some
time, ami jest sot Il trap for cnl; bought
!, steamboat AMI took UT her llogcll;lits for
Il slip-lloose, and fastened one end around /.
hole about Il QUARTER Of Il mile thick; |
know'd no dog solicd elephant could start
that; then put all ostrich that my daughter
had killed OIL her way from school Ill the
Loop, and went to bed; about O'Clock III the
morning | heard row and fonld l had got
!. buck seal in the trap; lie stlnwea fight aud
l went for him. and fer nearly Il week it wns
hard to tell which had the best OF It;
finally l.downed him, and out O. that seal l
eot 'levcn hundred barls q lie amt nigh ONTO
Il sQuar mile q skin, good fur, and worth SIG
Il yard, bllt it crippled lie itiaslcially.'
"IiOW." demanded a breathles5 listener.
SIN the fuss thet Yer seal Knocked over my
house and bulldin's and turc up lily arab1t
slle clear to bed rock Couldn't piant It
:" Won't you try another drinlS?' asked
Gimme Il little powdered sulphur and
half Il dozen red peppers i'll some liit1O-gly-
ccrinc, will yer3 doctor says l got to be
squar', Though" he continued. II kim out
ahead. When | got to open thet ostrich I
found a fourtecl-acre farm, well stocked and
watercd, eiyllty-,wo mile o:bavb- wire fenciE',
good repair, only the stecpte wasa little bent.
1t WAS a go0d haul, strangers
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