, 1892-02-24
A TWIST TO THE TALE.
Adventures of Supt. 0'Hearne and
Train Master culross.
They Went Cunning for lack Rab-
bits and What They Found.
Narrow Escape of CuIross From
Achieving Undeseryed Notoriety.

ent of the Union Pacific shops, stood at
the Inter Ocean last evening engaged in
dustriously in pulling tie leg of a
newspaper reporter, to express the matter
in extremely modern and technical Ian
guage.
You remember" said O'Hearne with
one of his sunny and insinuating smiles.
that Wurtele and l went out on the pay
car together last Saturday. Charley Gull
ross and Larry Malloy were with US and
the way we eased it into Culross was just
a caution to snakes"
Col. O'Hearne leaned back in a perfect
paroxysm OF reminiscent joy.
How was it2" inquired the o deeply
interested reporter.
when we got out here to Allen juno
ton you see," said O'Hearne thought
fully stroking the side OF his face with his
right foreinger, "Wurtele and 1 thought
we'd put up a job on Culross. We saw
the operator and tried to get a stuffed
jack rabbit to set out OIL the prairie so
that Culross you know he lives IN Lara
mic and naturally bites easily could be
properly steered on to it. The operator
didn't lave anything of the kind and the
very best he could do was to skirmish up
the hind legs of a very much abused and
decidedly rocky looking rabbit. These
hind legs were taken out on the prairie
and 80 placed in a sage bush that they
would easily fool a Laramie man, espec-
tally if he was unsuspecting as you know
Culross is. Well, when everything was
ready Wurtele said he'd take a run up
the road to pay off some section men.
I'll be gone about au hour said he, and
in the meantime Jack, you might Skin
mish up a blunderbuss or an axe handle
and enjoy Yourself out hunting OF
course, being strictly on to the thing, l
said this was just the cheese. 1t was just
like finding it with Culross. He fell into
the trap as though it was an open
and at once said he'd go along. Well, /
found an old rifle and Culross a shot gun
and we started to browse around.
You can bet | led him a great chase
over the prairie. Finally | stopped sud-
denly and put my fnger to my mouth.
Look there says l. as ifI was greatly ex-
cited. didn't you see that bush mover OF
course he didn't. but he thought he did,
and in his excitement l was afraid he
would accidentally shoot one or the other
OF us to death. We examined the bush
closely. brt of course it proved a false
alarm. Then [ began to gradually steer
Culross around to where the rabbits hind
legs were stuck. Finally | made the dis
cover and Culross vas simply wild with
excitement. At first he couldn't see any
thing in the bush, but finally took n tum-
BILE. | raised my gun as though about to
fire. when Culross threw his arms about
me and said: For Gods sake Jack
lem me have a shot at it. That was pie
for me. so told him to turn loose. He
tore the sage brush limb from limb with
all of his shooting and fairly ploughed up
a quarter section of the surrounding
country. Then he rushed frantically to
the sage bush and found the two hind
legs of the rabbit still sticking there. At
first he thought he had blown all the rest
of the rabbit to atoms, but when l threw
myself on the prairie and howled with
laughter he took a tumble. At first he
was going to lick me, but changed his
mind and started on foot home to Lara.
mic, a distance of some forty miles"
At the recollection Of this ludicrous
scene Col. O'Hearne fairly shrieked with
laughter. In the very midst of his
hilarity Conductor John Kelley arrived
on the scene, perfectly innocent OF what
was Transporting. Walking up to O'Hearne
he threw his arms Familiarity about him
and said For Gods sake, Charley,
lemme shoot"
O'Hearne's face visibly fell. His jaw
assumed a set, ~castiron expression and a
look of severe pain came into his eyes.
But the cat was out Of the bag and the
fact could no longer be concealed that it
was O'Hearne and not Culross who had
gone cunning for the hind legs of a jack
rabbit.
The thing in its correct shape has
already reached Omaha and Mr.. Megeath.
manager of the coal department, has sent
the shop superintendent a telegram some
what to the following effect:
Jack O'Hearne. Cheyenne:
OMAHA, Feb. 23.-The boys here are
clamoring for jack rabbits; 500 will be re-
quired to fill the demand. Hind legs
prefarred There ara SAID I'm he nonks nf
them flying about Allen junction. We
rely upon you to help us out OF our dis
tress. @. w. MEGEATH,
Superintendent Coal Department.
In the meantime O'Hearne has com
paratiyely little to say, but it is safe to
assume that he has the gentle and inof-
fensive Charley Culross in his minds eye.
II have used Ayers Pills for the past
al yaars ap1 IN, oot,sGoJ T oIau1l -. L.