St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-28

iined for keeps. Then they swung
round the tree and compared notes.
They must have lowed that the game
was purity rich. Gh was sQuatting on
the ground just where he'd joined the
critters, laffin fit to bust, when all to
onst ne was swung up off the ground
and carried along on 2:40 time. 1t near
ly choxed him at first and he didn't
know what to make of it. Then he
realized that them kyotes had turned
back together and was riding him on
their tails. Eb had got grip without
thinking just as they struck him. Bar
rim some rough ground he got along
fine.
1T was kinder dark when they
started and purity black when they got
there. Eb got there first. The kyotes
was scairt that they didn't keep a good
lookout, and when they come to an In
dian tank they didn't see it until they
were right on top of It; then they
turned sudden in different directions
and Eb slid off and rolled down about
twenty feet before he stopped. When
he stopped, he stopped all over.
He sat up when he cud and laffed
so much that he had to loosen his
was the most amoosing thing he'd
struck since the circus come to Pres
colt.
Then he figgered he'd better be
gittin' somewhar mighty quick 1t was
so dark he cudn't have seen daylight
without a candle, an he wandered
about promiskus.
About midnight he hadn't got no
1Nnn win lo1 f,1,.
the night. Just as he'd done this he
herd a snort like frog with the night
mare. Eb thought it was Injuns. The
only weepon he had was a jackknife
in his back pocket, but he was dead
game. He rolled himself to the edge
of the bank and peered down, but
cudn't see nuthin'. Then the bank bust
and Eb lighted on top of somethin'
soft.
1T was mud I
He'd got back to the Indian tank
I He was riled enough to chaw STEEL
but it was no use kicking, so he strug-
! gled up and got onto country rock
again as quick as he cud, and con-
cluded he'd have no more amoosments
till sun-up"
Honest John called for another drink
! Just then, and L ventured. to ask him
how Eb got back his pants, but he
! choked me off rather roughly.
| who in Halifax is telling this story
-yaou or me? Didn't you ever hear
of dogs pants? Then what's the mat
ter with kyotes having pants, and
only one atween two of 'em? This
yarn Amt about pants anyhow; it's
/ about Eb Jones discovering Tarantula
gulch, and that's where I'm saheading.
! Them other things is 'extryr' Then
John continued:
when Ebe woke up next morning he
thought he was petrified. He was so
heavy he couldn't lift hisself The clay
! had friz on to him. ~
| After while he got a boost to him
/ self and rolled over; then, he drew his
: self up a bank for more'n. two hours
until he was kinder perpendikler, fig
! gering to fall back and break hisself
up!
1T was risky thing to throw his
j self down, as he cud as lief as not
break his back as well asstfe- mud but
he was desprate and hadn't no time to
. lose. P'rans if he he'd thought rael
/ hard on the. subjee he might We start
] ed crack somewhere-pEebly in his
! head. 49,
He swung hisself a little Sos to fall
even-and then let goi
i "Ho kinder ratified inside as he
| touched the bottom, and was hopeful
! of gettin' out; more so as he felt thar
wus some seams opened long the front
! He wrustled hard to open up, and af-
! ter awhile the sweat kinder moistens
! the clay long his back ands1fe wus able
| to step out like clam from it's shell.
After he'd shook hisselfs som, he
| closed up the mud casing that it
| looked, for all creation, like a petrified
human. 1t wus so materially shaped
/ that Eb felt as he oughter give il a.
| decent plantin' for his own sake So
he scraped out a hole and puts it into
! it, and he takes a smooth rock for a
! tombstone and writ on it as follers,
! gee whiz, as the lawyers say:
Within this shell ofscIay
! DWelt Ebinezer Jonesi
But Jones is gone away
70 kinder rest his bones
Several years after some tenderfoat
! uncovered that corpse and wanted to
| tote it over the country as petrified
H2ssyampan, but when Eb knew on it
| ne stopped their foolin'. 1t looked so
ike hlsself, even to the creaseS in his
| pants, that it seemed that they wus
trying to tote himself. He got it away
i from 'em, and sold it East for $500.
| After he'd got out of his shell he
kinder rested. The sun wus hot an he
wondered what in Halifax kept his
j mead so cool. He put his hand I'D an
look jump of about twenty feet, for
! his ha:r wus gone-every timber of it
an it's bald yet! The derned mud
I had friz to it an it had come out with
! out his knowing. He was some trou-
/ bled about losing his hair but it wasn't
MS style to cry over burnt beans, and
then he figgered that he'd save some
| thln, on hair cutt n an other things.
| When ned got over bein' bald he took
a survey of the location, an found that
| ne was IN narrow gulch about half a
! mile long an more or less broad
| "nat Htruck him most Wus some beau
| tlful croppins, the purtiest he ever seen.
an he calkerlated 10 sample 'em before
| ne struck the river an got bearins for
SomeWhereS. Just as, he got movin'
he hearn whirr an a spat like as if
a mountain lyin Wus around, an he
clumb up a boulder an waited fer the
lyin.
1T wus lyin, sure enough, about
the size of heifer or rayther larger.
Ii Wus bigger'n a elephant, Eb says,
put Eb Wus down below Wickeberg a
| spell, an it spilled his morals.
The lyin he crouched just below
the rock, with his eyes fixed on Eb
! tryin to ebonise him.
Hypnotic him, you mean.''
Yes; that's it. Well, the hipo-
| tomising didn't work worth a cent, so
he stood up an swung his tail till he d
got a good ready on, an then he pulled
the trigger. Eb saw him comm an
stuck his toes into the rock an hung
head down till the cyclone passed. The
(! lyin he sw:shed his tail agen swsher
! than ever, an it struck agen a rock.
| an he got mad at the rock an tried
to claw it to pieces. but it wasn't pullin'
| stakes for no lyin!
Then he figgered to take a f1ier at
Eb agen, who wus sittin' up laffin' at
the trick he'd played him, but he dove
| down agen purity suddint when the cy-