Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
,aorains With Hendrika and the dogs foe

morning with Hendrfka and the dogs foe
dde, meaning to get back home by mid
day, for my father IL i'll and do not like
% leave him for long. But just as was
coin1 to turn when We were about where
We are now-yes, this was the very bush
an oribe got up and the dogs chased It
followed them for the gallop, and
when we came to the river, instead Of
turning to the left as bucks generally
do, the oribe swan the stream and took
to the bad lands beyond. / followed 1t,
and within hundred yards Of the big
tree the dogs killed it Hendrika
wanted me to turn back at once, but
said that we would rest under the shade
of tho tree, for knew there was aspiring
Of water near. Well, we went; and there
saw you all lying like dead; but Hen
drika, who Is very clever in some ways,
said no-and you know the rest. Yes,
1t is very wonderful"
SIT is, indeed" said" Now, tell me,
Miss Stella, who Is HendrikaP'
She looked round before answering to
see that the woman was not near.
Hers is a strange story, Dir. Allan. I
will tell you. You must know that all
these mountains and the country beyond
are full of balloons. When l was girl
Of about ten used to wander about a
good deal in the hills and valleys, and
watch the balloons as they played among
the rocks. There was one family of ba-
boons that 1 watched especially-they
used to live in kloof about mile from
the house. The old man baboon was
very large, and one Of the females had
gray face. But the reason why watche'
them so much was because / saw = 90
they had with them creatur +bot
looked like q girl, for her skin = ,.c ,,,i+e
white, and, what was more, t. - or = ~. .
protected from the weathe' ,,her - haD-
pened to DO cold by a. ha1t 80 :. go
sort which she tied round her throat.
~. y whole summer l
%-r ~, M ya1ticular white-skinned
at list my curiosity quite
-, tered me. l noticed that, though
climbed about the cliffs with the
other monkeys, at certain hour little
before shutdown they used to put her
with one or two other much smaller ones
into little cave, while the family went
! of somewhere to get food, to the mealie
| fields, 1 suppose. Then got an idea
that would catch this white baboon
and bring it home. But of course
could not do this by myself, so took q
! Hottentot-a very clever man when he
1 was not drunk-who lived on the stead,
into my confidence. He was called Hen.
| dirk, and was very fond Of me; but for q
! long while he would not listen to my
! plan, because he said that the babyans
would kill US. At last bribed him with
| a knife that had four blades, and one
afternoon we started, Hendrix carrying
a stout sack made Of hide, with rope
running through it so that the mouth
could be drawn tight.
| "Weil, we got to the place, and, hid
! ing ourselves carefully in the trees at the
foot of the kloof, watched the balloons
playing about and granting to each 9th
er, till at length, according to custom,
! they took the white one and three other
little babies and put them in the cave.
| Then the old man came out, looked
carefully round, called to his family and
| went off with them over the brow OF the
kloof. Now, very slowly and cautiously
we crept up over the rocks till we came
to the mouth of the cave and looked in.
All the four little balloons were fast
asleep with their backs towards US, and
their arms around each others necks,
the white one being in the middle.
Nothing could have been better for oul
plans. Hendrick, who by this time had
quite entered into the spirit of the
thing, crept into the cave like snake,
and suddenly dropped tho mouth of the
hide bag over the head Of the white ba
boon. The poor little thing woke VI
and gave violent jump, which caused
it to vanish right into tho bag. Then
Hendrix pulled the string tight, and to-
gether we knotted it so that it was i'm
possible for our captive to escape. Mean
while the other baby balloons had rushed
from the cave screaming, and when We
got outside they were nowhere to be
seen.
"'Come on, miss said Hendrix; the
babyan will soon be back He had shoul