The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-05-10

From the iHsiJl5s Of this Don't tnsv
were taking out crest pieces Of white
stuff. which il q little willie tnrued 10
water Aaeh split of and felf about
ca the shore, and tifaFest they swiftly
put into house with thick walls. But
q boatman, who laughed. took piece
nc larger than small dog and threw
it to me. I-alI my peoDie-swailow
without reflection, and that piece /
swallowed as is eur custom. fmme-
diateiy ! was afflicted with an ex-
eessive cold that. beginning ia my
crop, ran down TO the extreme end Of
my toes, and deprived me even Of
speech, while the boatmen laughed at
nae. Never have ] felt sHeh cold. +
danced IN my grief and amazement til
j could recover my breath, and then
danced and cried ont against the false
ness Of this world; and the boatmen
derided me till they fell down. The
chief wonder of the matter, setting
aside that marvellous ccldness, was
that there was nothing at all ia my
crop when J had finished my lament
ingsg
The adjutant had done his very best
to describe his feelings after swallow
ing a seven-pound lump Of ice off an
American ice-ship, in the days before
Calcutta made her ice by machinery;
but, as he did not know what ice was,
and as the mugger and the jackal
knew rather less, the tale missed fire.
Any thing, said the mugger. shut
ting his left eye again anything is
possible that comes out Of a boat thrice
the size Of Mugger-Ghaut. My village
is not a small one.
There was a whistle overhead on
the bridge, and the Delhi mail slid
across, all the carriages cleaning with
light, and the shadows faithfully fol
lowing across the river, 1t clanked
away into the dark again; but the
mugger and the jackal were SO we'll
used to it that they never turned their
heads
rs that anything less wonderful
than a boat thrice the size of Mugger-
Ghaut?" asked the bird, looking up.
u saw that built child Stone by
stone saw the bridge piers rise, and
when the men fell off they were won
drous sure-footed for the most part
but when they fell / was ready After
the first pier was made they never
thought to look down the stream for
the body to burn There, again,
saved much trouble. There was Moth
ing strange in the building of the
bridge" said the mugger
But that which goes across, pulling
the rooted carts! That is strange, the
adjutant repeated,
1t is, past any doubt, a new breed
of bullock. Some day it will not be
able to keep its foothold up yonder,
and will fall as the men did The old
mugger viii then be ready"
The jackal looked at the adjutant,
and the adjutant looked at the jackal.
If there was one thing they were more
certain of than another it was that
the engine was everything in the wide
world except a bullock The jackal
had watched it time and again from
the aloe-hedges by the side of the
line, and the adjutant had seen engines
since the first engine ran in India. But
the mugger had only looked up at the
engine from below, where the brass
dome seemed rather like a bullock's
hump.
M-yes, anew kind of bullock, " the
mugger repeated pondeFously, to make
himself quite sure in his own mind;
! and Certainly tits bullock, said the
jackal.
''And again it might be" began the
mugger, pettishly.
"CertainIy-most certainly" said the
! iackal, without waiting for the other
to finish.
WHAT" said the mugger, angrily,
for he could feel that the others kney
more than he did. 'What might it be?
I never finished my words. You said it
was 4 bullock"
at is anything the Protector Of the
Poor pleases. | am his servant-not
the servant of the thing that crosses
the river"
Whatever it is, it is white faced
work, said the adjutant And, for
my own part, / would not choose a
| place so near to it to lie out upon as this
bar is"
You do not know the English as
| do" said the mugger. ''There was a
white-face here when the bridge was
built, and he would take a boat in the
evenings and shuttle with his feet on
the bottom-boards, and whisper: Is he
here? Is he there? Get me my gun I
could hear him before I could sec HIN
each sound that he undertaking
and putting and rafting his gun, up
and down the river. As surely as had
picked up one of his worlmen, and
thus saved great expense in wood for
/ the burning, so surely would ne come
down to the ghaut and shout in loud
voice that he would hunt me. and ril
the river of me-the mugger of Mug
ger-Ghaut! Mel Children. have
swan under the bottom Of his boat for
hour after hour, and heard him fire his
gun at logs; and when ! was well sure
he was wearied 1 have risen by his side
and snapped my jaws in his face. When
the bridge was finished he went away.
| All the English hunt in that fashion
except when they are hunted
Who hunts the white-faces?" said the
| jaekal, excitedly.
No one now, but have hunted them
in my time.
4 remember little Of that hunting
/ was young then, said the adjutant,