The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-03-01
TIE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, NARoH 4.

NOR ming with Hendrika and the dogs FIR
q ride, meaning to get back homo BY mid
I day, for my father is III and [ do not like
to leave him for long, But just as / was
going to turn when we were about where
we are MOVIES, this was the very bush
an oribe got up and the dogs chased it.
I 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 it,
and within a 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 the tree, for I knew there was aspiring.
Of water near. Well, we went; and there
I saw you all lying like dead; but Hem
drika, who is very clever in some ways,
said no-and you know the rest. Yes,
it is very wonderful"
cit is, indeed" said.'' Now, tell me,
Miss Stella, who is Hendrika?'
She looked round before answering to
see that the woman was not near.
Oilers is strange. story, Mr.. Allan. I
will tell you. You must know that ali
these ntains and the country beyond
are full of balloons. When was girl
of about ten I used to wander about
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 / watched especially-they
used to live in kloof about a mile from
the house. The old man baboon was
very large, and one Of the females had 8
gray face. But the reason why watched
them 80 much was because / saw that
they had with them a creature that
looked like girl, for her skin was quite
white, and, what was more, that she was
protected from the weather when it hap
pened to be cold by fur belt Of some
sort, which she tied round her throat.
For nearly q whole summer /
watched this particular white-skinned
overmastered me. I noticed that, though
she climbed about the cliffs with the
other monkeys, at a 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
off somewhere to get food, to the mealie
fields, suppose. Then I got an idea
that would catch this white baboon
and bring it home. But of course I
could not do this by myself, so took a
Hotten tot-a very clever man when he
was not drunk-who lived on the stead,
into my confidence. He was called Hen
dirk, and was very fond of me; but for a
long while he would not listen to my
plan, because he said that the babyans
would kill us. At last bribed him with
knife that had four blades, and one
afternoon we started, Hendrix carrying
stout sack made of hide, with 4ope,
running through it so that the mouth
could be drawn tight. ....
swell, 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 tia 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 necAs,
the white one being in tho middle.
Nothing could have been better for our
plans. Hendrick, who by this time had
quite entered into the spirit Of the
thing, crept into the cave like snake,
and suddenly dropped the mouth Of the
hide bag over the head of the white ba-
boon. The poor little thing woke up
and gave violent jump, which caused
it to vanish right into the bag. Then
Hendrix pulled the string tight, and to-
gether we knotted it SO that 1t 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 shout