Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17

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mp with any known knot, was yet good
tangle- This finished. with q shrek Of
delight which demonstrated that his
wicked little heart was being destroyed
with glee, the unwarned founding of the
forest made dash for his original posi-
ton. Once there he proposed, presume,
to wind himself up in the fun afforded by
the situation.
Yes. he had tied up Nan Ord, but al
ready the quality of satisfaction originally
rather badly. AS we have seen, there was
mistake, and pretty predicament my
nice monkey was in. Poor little Humbug
SIM had already named him so-he
found himself safely caught in the blight
Of trouble, and the glee snuffed out, just
as the mirth went out of Graham the night
he put his hand on black cobra's coil.
Whang! went the taut line. Baal pht
pitt blew Donald, as he sprang to his feet
and stamped an angry inquiry.
A momentary glare on the part of the
Hammerer, quick dash, dodge, and
period of mutual contemplation filed the
first half minute.
One, two, three, scootl Then followed
the most cheerful occasion of my life.
Surely mortal man never beheld the like
before. Around and over, hither and
yon, flew little Humbug, with the ram
finishing good second at every turn. 1t
was my monkey and Graham's sheep,
United States against Caledonia, and a
blue day for Uncle Sam. Around they
went, and beck they came Donald doing
his best to score hit, and taking his
shots, quarter" OR straight away" Just
as they came, and the monkey straining
every fiber to keep up system Of vanish
ing targets. 1t was tunb bling match,
bull fight, swift chariot race, and a fit
apiece Sometimes the ten feet of cord
would foul and shorten. so that for the
moment it looked as if Donald was going
to come aboard. Then it would reel off
again, and the dance take up it's furious
measure once more. Now and then
brief cessation of hostilities would tran
spire, which occasions both parties filed
in with earnest inquiries as to the
exact shape of the next evolution; espe-
cially did little Humbdg seem anxious to
keep track of these little details. Per-
haps he thought 1t vital for him to know
In time to get up some sort of makeshift
counter that would last him around the
ring and back again. Then. with rush
and q snort, shrek and wild leap, the
two would go revolving and whirling
about like chain shot once more, one of
them trying to slack the line, and tho
other to haul it taut. The Hammerer's
eyes got to blazing like head lights, while
the troubled victim of his own native
smartness went yawing. heeling and
tumbling about like a spider fight.
Plainly my side was getting the worst Of
It, but somehow l was given the grace te
hn0r L md hnxy Ax,I ~
courage, and l am glad it happened so,
for just along where we were then it had
begun to look like 1.-The saddest time of
all the year, mother" Evidently, if things
held up as they were going, our name was
mud. AS saw it, either that line had to
part, the sheep to ravel out like cast off
stocking, or else my monkey must take
the alternative of getting rammed beyond
recognition, or Of flying into bits like hen
feathers in a furry by force of his own
exertions.
But just as things began to look dark
est for us a something flashed by and
whizzed into the house. It was our side.
The tie had failed, and we were free.
70, it isn't every bit of string that will
do to tie to every sheep you find lying
around. In some cases you might as well
hitch up to a pestilence and be done
with it.
Now after this blunder in the matter Of
a hitch, the confusion Of kitcher and
hitchee, and the consequent unwholesome
aspects Of things generally, it would seem
that my monkey would pick him out
good place in which to sit down and square
up experiences; that he would graduate
his progress toward experiments involv-
ing string or anything else. thought
so, but was ignorant. went to a win
dow, drew the print curtains slightly
apart, and became wiser, for there was
my unterrifed, unrepentant little beast
pottering about the room just as indus
triously and as blithely as if he had not
but just narrowly escaped being butted
out as fat as a gun wad by sheep. The
room was Graham's, and was used as a
combined medicine shop, study and bird
stuffery. Truly bad place for such an
occupant, but l was disposed to take the
risk on my property.
Over the breakfast table in the morn
ing Graham and had exchanged num-
Der of little amenities that now served to
cheer me to the venture. He said to me
that America was not historically great,
and could never be SO. To clinch this, he
asserted that Americans place no value
upon greatness. Mark" said he, by
way of contrast, the hundreds and thou
sands of tributes in bronze and marble
that England erects in grateful prodigal-
ity to her dead heroes"
Then when asked for the exact page
Of the guide books pointing out those
erected to CORVALLIS and Pakenham he
seemed vexed, and grew uncomplimen-
tary. In fact, some of his language was
not up to even q moderate standard Of
acoustical responsibility
For this reason was disposed to chance
my property in there Perhaps, too, /
was beginning to realize that the Asian
tee was more than half right when he
said, ''he too trick" At all events, let
him proceed.
After hopping about tho room on his
hind legs for time, he seemed satisfied
with the preliminaries, and jabbered some
to himself in small. contented fashion.
Then, with squeak. he jumped and
grabbed 4 small stuffed fish from the
teak of taxidermizea pelican, and sat
down on the floor to examine into details
Of construction This latter action in
Guided analysis; analysis, dissection; and
dissection placed synthesis among those
things which cannot be done. His next ex-
ercise brought the pelican to the floor, and
along with it two parrots. Then he shivered
four ounce jar of quinine, and scattered
its contents. along with the shattered glass,
over the floor and among the feathers OF
the overturned A cobra gave him some
little alarm at first, but not for long. He
soon grasped matters as they stood; this
DONE he stuffed the cotton obtained from
the fish into the mouth of the. spurious