The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24

| IL WAS bpOIoU, ana, OF course, inc IuTtneT L
walked the worse It Eot, till couldn't see any
thing at all d the ok. Then at last | got out
the %sgpitying strptty and cane on to my
fof sSH ws sSS tell yop M wondoffS air.
~. Colonel, said i. '''i Should have thought
the elk would have seen you. too, enlarged to
sac SnH sS SF u the Colonel so he
wosd s5 but you must rSmem3eE that he
| mospheric spyElass. sir. ana looked to him
-. Yes. az Bullets travel at least nye times
fast y99t as bullets do; That's anteiopes. |
| went after one come out on to buif over.
looking valley mile .wide., The far side of
along that slope 70 mg rsh sIP saw Snd bS roYs
81 antelope tearing along tho face OF 1t, mile
sG oy ThS sGyS ws 9nsts
me. clear across the valley picked ont a nice
i iat antelope In tho middle OF the drove and
GOOD sHsiG to 'i that Sns
behind tho very last antelope In the rear Of Of
that drovel But hadn't time to think out
@ np nocna that The q leader the s" SToas
sss,Ss s III SSS 6% been s%os
this time, when, instead Of tho, leader drop
ping IN his tracks the hind deer n the drove
reGoy egcd from my astonshinent went over
to tho dead. doad antsslope The bullet had gone
aimed for on the leader. Then tho whoie
thing rSwa was plain hadn't shot wild at all
M The Sy RtGpe ESg fast that they
whore 1t was aimed, oil but that hind one. and
he c came along lust IN time to yet the dose that
der. Nice one. amt he ?, Halo! There's my
s9 Wpnns them s SGts g mine in the
old, ! wasn't trying them to, see what they
could do. but one day last spring. lust before
the Tie oae down at nn
ana u rs Sly n1 %ss ap ins Sas
got back. Gone Just twelve minutes. sir with
COLONEL ventured to say. you ought to
have had those colts with you after those an
t tslope, They'd have run down the whole
,.I Thsy'd a d9Ie II sirl They'd done it by
pened to come do%n h2S this county, ' Mo
on the old Genesee Canal Father hal cleaned
the woods pretty we'll out of game in that
was good many Indians floating around from
the reservations in York state. and one day
father, ponting Off to the s southwest s' '"'' ~
Ham Way down own yondtsrr, Big lick. Heap elk.
, SO We took our guns and dogs and started.
wasn't much but wilderness then between the
Genesee and the SusIuehanna. all the way to
owe the Gre H had nootei
out but we didn't hit it Just right. aud got way
GOWN nelow here tr al % SsmerSn e9nn-
John was great hunter. and father knew him
elk lick that's laying along the, sinnemahone
waters -, somewhere around here.
Portage. where the old pirate has sauatted.''
SO there was nothing for us to do but
tramp back here to the Portage. ten miles. and
ono OF the llereest looking human beings /
turned out t? be the old sea pirate that John
Earl had told US about And he was, an old
He had been q pirate all his life. but couple
Of years before we found him here In the will
Beach on the Fl
He buried his treasure there, and then fol-
the the fSs to
waters Where he thought the Governmens
till he was forgotten. and then go back and dig
up his treasure. He did go away for that pur-
pose not long afterward and we never heard
-. -. Ana here was the big lick: too! It covered
81
Of Texas cattle had passed over that soft. salty
bottom. It couldn't a been tore, up more than it
was by tho elk and deer tracks! The old sea
pirate told as that il we'd stin his cabin about
shutdown and peek out we'd see sight And
we did, sr Elk and deer began to come In
there as thick as flies. and stood around.
stamping and licking the salt earth. In loss
than fifteen minutes l73 elk and 313 deer had
come In. and in tho surrounding trees we
counted forty nine big ranthers Watching 'em
to get the ir share Of 'em And deer and elk We're
still coming in. until father had seen all he
wanted to. and we knocked over half dozen
to the hills with noise like thunder. and the
panthcrs after EN-. hellytehoot!
80" This Is good enough for me u said father.
and he took, up pretty much all the land there
where stick Of timber had never known an
axe yet. sir! We put up a cabin. and fetched
the rcst Of tho family down from York state.
Bnt we soon found out one thing and that was
anything else around on these hills We had to
shoot 'em dead on the spot If We want
ed to get 'em, for IL they. were only
wounded they'd make right for the lick.
few minutes. md away boyd go. as sound as
ever. if not a little sounder. and we'd have to
hunt EN- nil over again; Wonderful water.
around in the swamPs OF Florida. he'd found
the Fountain OF Youth right here sir and been
2 promising young man among us yet ALL
here's Polly
camc in and climbed on the Colonel's knee.
Colonel, Named after her grandmother
VIE said the coo 91 your N Ts sr My
mother NY wife is Polly's mother sir"
What said l. That little threo-year-old
Nobody else's. sir. by CAD said he"