The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-15
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4Dye know whar come from, stran-
ssrr said thin MAJ with big whiskers
I'd a wiie-bri1imed white hat. "Course
- didn't, I'm jest ia from the foothills of
,bs S;erras. Dye know whar Pm headed
fnr, Bet ye don'G, I'm p'inted straight for
Tossau and Bsrmudy. Never ont among
The foothills. 1 reckons Thought ye wasn't.
~ great country. But there hain't no
osrtpedes out thar. I missed the cent?
osies. / was kind c. used 20 'em, havin'
mi a year or two with 'em down in Bsr-
oydv and Nassau. Another drawback to
re foothill country is that it's little short
!; scorpions. Thurs a few out thar, but
ar enough to make it cheerful, and it'd
Ave been trife dull for me if it hadn't
bsen for the tarantulies. Know what a
tsrantulY is, don't We. Course ye know
that
sniders. though, did ye? Thought not
1bey size I'D frst-rate out on the adobe
rronuds of the Sierra foothills, but they
ss;nt mOre'n half as big as tarantulies Is in
Psrnudy and Nassau. I've seen 'em down
lar as big as your hat. But guess they
tsiD't got no more fire in their jaws than
he foothills taraatuly carries. farantulies
i thick as flies out thar 'mong the foothills
When the nights is warm they sally out on
Ma promenade so numerous that We have
"a watch out or yell step on some
If EN-, an hurt 'em. Many a fine
mornin' Eve got up and seen
tarantuly hair enough on the ground to
temper q square rod o. mortar. Its hair
they shed in free fights tween themselves
snrin' the night You might walk over
tbe adobe grounds of the foothills for a
month and wouldn't notice ye was walkin'
over a tarantuly settlement. Maybe ye'd
bee what We thought was dead leaf or
niece O dirt make a sudden flip kind of a
novement, but the chances is that,ye'd
hink it was owin' to the wind stirrin some
him or other on the ground I'll bet that's
what we'd think. But it wouldn't be the
wind stirrin' nothin'. It'd be the trap door
nf a tarantuly's den closin' shet. A good
nany folks'd think, when they first see a
Earantuly's den, that it's dice box some
body's dropped. I'll bet you'd think so yer
Zelf. now. Tarantuly's dens looks power
hui lot like dice boxes, but don't We never go
Ind pick one up, thinkin' yer found little
urioSity, or yell see that yer found a Curl
s.ty bigger'n a heap, and maybe there
Eon't be whisky enough in yer flask to out
tizen the pizen the tarantuly has socked into
e. But when We see what ye might think
vas TIE wind stirrin' leaf or somethin,
batll be a tarantuly shettin' his trap door.
Hs'S been a peeking out at We, aud, not
kin yer cut. has shet himself in, and We
zn bet he's holdini the door, too. That
door is fitted on to the den by hinge on
bne side. It's made out o. leaves and sticks
md dirt, which is glued together with
ONE patent cement the tarantuly makes
imsslf
1T hain't no sign that the tarantuly is
home when his doors shet, for he al
Eays shets it when he goes out on the war
ath or on the mash. Didn't know the
arantuly was a great masher, did We.
ertnlY We did, Why, he's regular
nde on the mash, He'll sta ID on the cor
bers by the hour, strokin' down his whisk-
rs with some of his paws--and tarantuly
close on TO ali wit.SK-rs and paws-and
Eatchn out for lady tarantulies. When
bne comes along toward whar he stands,
he'll pull his chin whiskers and strike a
bossh and kinder skin his eye sideways at
liss Tarsntaly as she promenaIes up his
way. Ii she passes close enough to him
ZEN shoot out one of his long forelegs at
er and give it little twitch, and draw it
pack quick, just as if he war flirtin' with
Ter and sayin', oh, YOU sassy thing, you.
u strike We real hardn Wouldn't hardly
NclpBO GhcI, oOQAA yes NIui 30 We HOuluu b.
but it's true as some preachin' I've heard.
But it's when the tarantuly of the adobe
-Ound foothills comes home that he's great.
He comes home with rush. He sails up
pn the dead run, and before ye can begin
Osee how he does it he throws that door o.
slopen and is inside o his shebang with
be door shet and locked quicker'n the
rown lizard er the foothills can shake off
IS tail. Thar Thar's somethin', too, that
eps to drive augwee of, out thar 'mong
be foothills.
you wouldn't believe that there's a
zsrd out thar that's built so that it can
PIP its tail off as easy as you snap yer fin
Prs, and then set right in and grow an
her one inside of week. would yeS
Hardly, We wouldn't. But that's the kind of
lizard that sprouts out thar. And the fun
it's that there hain't nothin' that wiggles
bat the adobe ground tarantuly dotes on
Foren he does on that brown lizard. He'll
Falk ten miles any time o. day or night to
pck his jaws into Que of 'em. And yit it
falat more'n once in a hundred times that
Pc can make his meal on one.
Them lizards is swift on their
eet, but the tarantulv is swifter, and
Vlen ne gifts on tie trail of lizard he's
pure to haul up with it. But he always
grabs for its tail. Quicker'n an Injin can
teal yer blanket the lizard gives that witch
us n and the tail comes off and the lizard
Eoe right on. Thur never was full
rown foothills tarautuly that hain't had a
zard tot away from him and leave
othm' but his tail in his mouth nors'n
uhdred times, and yit every time it's done
re talantuly's eyes hangs clear out on his
MsEers, he's SO took back, aud he can't
ever seem to understand jestthe how Of It.
Gems little tough, don't it. II does that,
at anybody that's ever been out to the
eieffa foothills'u know that I'm giviu it to
straight. The tarantuly bolts the tail,
ILlhe same, as soon as he gifts over his
aprse, and then ferages around fer an
Plner lizard to tackle.
Yes, sir The tarantulies goes a good
ayS TO cheerin' up Teller and hvenin' UP
landscape out thar; and takin' them.
uu tae rattlesnakes, and the Injins fell
ougnC to be able to content himself and
w git lonesome and down in the mouth,
Os, 9ad hes But somehow got the blues,
I2uldnt shake 'em off. Then of a sudden
Iowd what was ailin' me, and | packed
uS up Now, bet you don't know what
@ ne. You don't know what I'm
s1.eo Tor Bermu1y and Nassau fers
oTe ye don'tl Jest for the scorpions
me centipedes. I'm dead gone home
# - OVER EN-. and thatis all that q lie matt,