The record-union., 1893-01-28

he's ears like fox This I twisted and
rolled about to make believe it wa nit
anything, then watching my chance l
tied bit O. string round it. hitched 1t to
the anlmaFs collar, and started him OFT
with wave o. my hand. same as l al
ways did. In bout ten seconds that
dawg ware on his way and 1 was alone
again with the mauiac-nor not a mo-
ment too soon either. for soon as he'd
finished gorging himself he turned his
tentlon to me, and for the next two hours
tell yer he made things pretty lively.
Raising his cursed gun, he pointed 1t at
me, working his mouth and face at the
same time in most awful manner and
making motion for me to get up. / did
So Then he rose to his leet and went
through the dumb show of man walk
ing, nodding toward the rear OF the cabin
and waving the gun in circle like. This
he repeated twice, getting more excited
and devil-like each time. Then it struck
me he wanted me to walk, and walk
did, with him after me, round and round
that there place in a way that, If 1t
Waren't so dangerous, would have tickled
me. PIl BET there never was RUNNER
show since the days o Father Adam. As
1t was, didn't even smile, but the cold
sweat just poured down OF me- for | eX-
pected nothing less than to be Drained or
rlddled, with him at the back O. me all
bAIO tllllG anu lllAGNGI IlIGil Ib q DGeIt Slut6
! ned tust come in. My word now! he
was sighVP that would have paralyzed
even an lnjun to look at. His eyes they
shlned and glistened like a lynX's and
his face and hands were all Spattered
with the blood o. the rabbit he'd Just
eaten. l felt sure that if Jake didn't turn
up soon pd never leave my old dug-out
alive. 70 his camp was but six miles,
and as 1t was an hour or more past mid
day when my dawg left l knew he
couldn't reach me much fore sundOwn.
10 hold her out till then and not rile the
cuss was my sole aim.
Bout 4 O'Clock he let up, getting, I
guess, bit tired, for he made for his seat
by the door again and let me take mine
on the table. This time l was all on the
listen for Jake and had madeup my mind
just 'Xactly what I'd do when / heard his
whistle. 1 reckoned l grab the table and
with that before me run right at him,
calculating he would be taken too much
by surprise to shoot.
"haif an hour passed away, then an
hour, and l began to grow uneasy. spe-
clally as the madman looked like getting
up on his feet again. What if alter all.
Jake should not get my note. and sbouId
pe away for couple o days looking after
ms traps. No! l said to myself, l won't
think O. that; and just at that moment |
heard low whistle, and crash came n
blow against the door.
with howl reckon no full-blooded
1njun could beat l caught up that table
ana pounded at him, striking the rife
from his hands as he started m. Crash
came another blow from ,Take's ak, and
IN came thatSdoor, then we were all three
on the ground struggling together; and
now he d1d fight; once it even seemed as
If he would master both o. us, he ware so
powerful, and to this day [ carry the
marks o. that mans nails in my throat
Jake managed TO catch him blow on the
head with the back O the ak, and that
was all that stopped him from squeezing
to again we bound him up so tight with
ropes he looked like a piece O. netting.
When he did recover and found himself
strapped up helpless as a kitten his rage
was terrible to see.
mo, he hadn't escaped from no asylum.
II pears he was a schoolmaster down a.
Portland, and who just went sort O. crazy
cause his sweetheart died, and who Just
went way oH into the woods by himself
nearly twenty years afore he tumbIed
onto me. Folks all thought he was dead,
but you see he waren't, and there he'd
been living the life o a wild animal like
all alone. That's what made him look so
fierce. We notified the authorities and
they came and fetched him. l never saw
him again, but hered he pegged out bout
six months afterward, but not before he'd
murdered one keeperand nearly strangled
another"
This was Nick Carthew's story as he
told it to me.-Inter- Ocean.