Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-15
aTbrelins Register
BILL NYE
DESCRIBES HIS ICHTHYOSAURUS HUNT.
Pitiful Victims Of Practical joke Tramp Five Days
Along Bitter Creek In Search Of an Interest
ing Wild Animal That Had Been
Dead Just AbOnt Five Thou
sand Years
Chicago Nsrs


Several years ago l had the pleasure OF
Joining party about tOstart ont along the
banks Of Bitter creek on hunting expedi-
ton. The leaderof the party was young
man who had recently escaped from college
with a large amount of knowledge which
he desired to experiment with on the people
of the far West. He had heard that there
was an ichthyoSaurus up somewhere along
the west side of Bitter creek, and he wanted
lis 10 90 along and help him to find 1t. l
had been in the West some eight or nine
wears then, and had never seen an ichth-
yosaurus myself, hut l though the young
man must know his business, 50 1 got out
nv Winchester and went along with the
group.
We tramped over the pale, aShy, glaring,
staring stretch of deSOlatlOn, through burn
ing, uuivering days OF mOnOtOny and sage
brush and alkali water and achingeyes and
parched and bleeding lips and nostrllS, cut
through and eaten by the sharp alkaline
mir, mentally depressed and physically
worn out, but cheered Onand braeed up by
the light aud JOYOUS manner OF the ever
hopeful James TrilObite EtOn of Concord
James Trilobite EtOn OF Concord never
moancd. never gigged back or shed hot
rrmurSelul tear IN this
P1wDERY HUNGRY WASTE
Of yray, parchcd ruin. No regret came
forth from his lips in the midst OF this
mighty cemetery, this CHASTITY potterS
field from all that nature had ever reared
that WIS too poor To bear its funeral cN-
penScS.
Now and thrua lean. sOiled gray coyote,
without sufficient moral courage 10 look 4
dead mule i'm the hind foot, Slipped across
the hogizon like u dirty phantom and faded
into the hot and trrmuiuuS atmosphere.
We Srnrned such game ~ that and trudSed
ON, chrrred 10y the hope that seemed 10
sprins Eternal in the breast OF James Iril-
Obitc EtOu ut Concord.
-Four DAYS We wallowrd through the I'M
changing drSolation. -Four nights We went
through the motions of Slumberlng on the
arid huSom at the wasted earth. On the
NTH day James Trlohitr Eton said We
We're now getting near the point where We
would tind what we sought. On We pressed
through the keen rough blades OF the sell
dom bunch grps>, over the shifting yellow
s'a" ana In' Sr',''I' S'I, y, ~" ~, -,
around through the ucumUhting centuries
and hold the world together, kind oi
oawdrry poison that delights to creep into
Ihr ur>tril$ 81 the pilgrim and steal away
his hTlhN- "' "ne" "'"'>'C"I" - " -,
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l"uh" I'm XXI
THE ANlNALNAN DEAD.
V,, only thlt but il hll been dead for a
lop.s lnn,s time,
lame, Milton Shyrrod said that If 4
c,IIe,,,. r,lurltiun v..S ct no more uSr to u
man thau that hr. for one allowed that
hi. b,, ,,nuId hly,. To grup,. through life
with nm a,-,druiir.,l education, and very
little of that"
mrorkcl ny gun and went back to
camp S,,ddcr and maddef man. anu
though wears have come and gone ! am
still irritable when think ut the I'VE GayS
We trlmprd along Batter creek searching
for an animal that Wa no longer awe anu
our guide knr" it before We StaL't"' ~
yenturrd Ia N'N !" .. l'oi"','C '', T
th1a Ll%ht, ~ we All I'' '"aIl"'i u, M,
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&uiu' o' u re'.i''">' ''..' - 49,, g.,
- hiIh "uS"' !" nav -. 49, L.,,.,,
Nrs'r ms Young me away ny "'% u "'''
1un win MS Nup'I"lN Ih 'h't wy
Why, blame 1t all, ~'yS James A''
did N"u expect lou ought 'n kho" your
Nrlt that that animal extinct.
'ENunk. %I\N J,'lhT' 9iIl'on ,7'''' l"'''
m shrill. angry tones. J SS'4!d N'I ne
was eNtlnk. Ihlt WHAT We - A@AH
about What %tllIru me was '""' So"
should nave waited TIL the olI c''SS was
e%tnk before YOU come To us IKE man
AnG told H. about II. ON pun III '"'ouSn
The dEd Tor week and blister our hcS'S
and runlrmh near Kill us anu All 10. 'tiHc
You know that the blaine nTute y lay !"
there IN the hot sun S!ttlh more anu mort
cNtiuk every minute. run Is Iuh' anu
like
A LITTLE NONSENSE Now ANr THEN,
inst ~ well a. Won do. but III be
rt..rnYllv bauisbrl 10 Bitter creek if
tli,l- ~ s.,ptr,. ar riyht or white to play
II am y,,,r friends this kind oT way.
~, claim tbyt the animal has been
Al I'm an : nm yr,rs or some such
- ; ,,,,, ami tr, to get ont of il that
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