Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-01-10

an hour 10 bring him round.
You bet / was mad when four
Mortimer st Omer was trying to fiji
with Annie! I just said I'd shut bot
his eyes if he didn't quit; but he kel
right on.
1t wasn't long before he found OF
that Annie liked me because she thoug
I was hero, and then he started il
and in lees than three days there wei
come big stories about that fellow Aoa|
ing about town. 1t was said he'd traye
ed in India with bis father and shot
real live tiger that was carrying off
native, and that his father had the tiger
skin mounted and on exhibition at hi
home in New York
But that wasn't all he'd done-ne
sirl He'd hunted in the Rocky Noun
tains and killed grizzley. He ha'
some Of the creatures claws to prove it
We'll, this mighty hunter carried I
revolver with him all the time, ane
when he was not mashing girls,or smok
ing cigaretts, or telling big stories abou
what he had done, he was shooting tha
revolver, and he began to get a reputa
ton among the boys, for al of his white
suit and straw hat with the rainbow
band
>One night Mabel Hasty had lawn
party, and all the girls and felors were
there. Mabel was all broke up over
Mortimer St. Omer, and she had him
right on hand, you bet. 1t made some
of US mighty huffy to see half a dozen
of the best girls tagging him or sitting
around and listening to bis big lies
about himself
When the ice cream and cake came
around. he had a circle clean around
him. and he was relating the thrilling
story Of his shooting the big grizzley
bear, and showed a couple of claws.
But what made me hopping was that
my Annie seemed more interested than
anybody else, if such think was posi-
BILE, for she was sitting close beside him,
looking into his face, and swallowing
every word for law and gospel
When l saw that felt like giving
Mr.. Mortimer a good humping; but
felt more so when the party broke up,
for when I started to walk home with
Annie the same as usual, she politely
thanked me and said sne had other
company. l know l hadn't ask her,
but it was the reg lar thing, and | did
not suppose l had to-
Blu: you'd augLter seen me when
st. Omer stepped right up and sailed
away with her Jumping Christopher
but didn't ny hair rise l was ready
to break something right away
As soon as could recover got three
other feller6, and we followed them
stright to Annies home. They stood
on 1Le door step as much as half an
hour aud talked, while we feilers kept
hid behind the fence
AT last, when she bade him good
night, I told the other fellers to stand
back and let me do him up. warmed
them not to interfere, as l knew could |
knock che stuffiny out of that city dude
and not half try
We'll, we stopped him in the road,
and. after telling him what Iva going
10 lick him for, I sailed in
Say | don't care to talk about What
;olowed. That chap had taken boxing
eesons and I wasn't in it all. The other
ellers was as much surprised as l was
md they jnst stood back and stared till
was clean done up. and st. Cmer
walked off down the roal lighting
cigarette
Blue Well if ever feller ever felt
hat way. did. But WASH t going to
i've Annie MP just because the city fel-
er had taken boxing lessons and could
'ox better than l.
\ didn't take any stock in his big
uniting stories, and SO I pitt up job
o see how much grit he did have
ut was after my eyes got we'll enough
81 could come out around and not haye
1ks laugh at me, that somebody got
p rasburry picking and l saw my
E,encp.'
Annie knew that had tried to lick
t. Omer and got the worst of it. and
he way she nodded to me on the street
ould have given red hot stove Chill.
ut made UP My mind I'd show her =
le kind of a bold hunter he was, and I
'tended to get her back before two
eeks bad passed.
Little Jimmy Watson agreed to help t
e. He was to put on dad 5 big buffalo b
be aud show up'when Mortimer and
nnie were together, with me not far "
way. Etold him to keep partly oat of t