The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26

ward me, an he seemed to be very rnuob
excited. When We met he shook hands an,
said, Thank gOOdnessr and then cuseed
some under his breath. He said II was
mighty good TO meet somebody in thar
place at that time. He acted so nervous1,,
that asked him what was the matter bjt
he seemed a little shy an only said he
guessed he wasn't built to go out into
the bowling wilderness alone an didn't
think he would go to Klondike
I'll tell you what it is, pard,' he saws
after a while. when a man is alone for
long time he gets to thinking about strange
things, things he has no business to think
about an then he shuddered an looked
around in a scary kind of way. Then he
said suddenly: Say, do 1 look like Is 60
ing crazy? Look into my eyes and see He
did have an uneasy look, but l wasn't 20
ing to tell him he looked crazy, an him
with a gun. What l wanted to do was to
soothe him an so 1 said he looked all
right.
Well he said, Tn afraid I'm getting
touched here an he tapped his head
Why, over there he says, an looks horri-
fed at the woods Over there, but saw
you come over an see if you see any
thing
He took me into the woods to a big
tree. 1 looked where he pointed an he
watched my face very eagerly There was
leaves. I told the man 1t was my mule an
he threw his arms around my neck an
wept. It's all right he said, 4 thought I
was crazy hut it really is a mule. When
I saw that thing I thought it was a hal
lucination an would disappear If 1 shut my
eyes, but when looked again it was stll
there. 1t shook it's ears an looked at me
an then 1 started home
Il was very glad to find my mule an
tried to get him down to the ground, but
he got away an continued his northerly
course, chewing leaves. 1t was dark when
we came to the open country again an
seeing a fire several miles ahead we de-
clded to go to an join the party there
for we could hear them shooting an yell
The crowd seemed to be very boisterous
ing when we were a mile away. When we
came up to them, though, they were all
very quiet an we couldn't see any Of
them The first thing we knew somebody
yelled
q There is comesp an shot at us from
behind a log. They were all hiding in the
bushes, an behind logs an we dropped
so they couldn't hit us.
I think 1 crippled it, boys. It's out
there said the man who shot. 1T was
sneaking up on us. Be careful now an
be ready to fire. Then the six men came
out into the light with their fingers on
the triggers of their rifles. I yelled at
them not to shoot, an they all jumped
an put their guns to their shoulders.
" That didn't sound like the noise it
made at first, said one an called again.
It's man. one of them said, very much
relieved, an told us to come on.
You must excuse us, said the man
who fired but we thought you were
something else Then they told us how,
about half an hour before, while they
were cooking supper, some monstrous
thing had come swooping down over the
camp fire AN snapped an ratified its
wings an made horrible sounds. we
skeered it away, though said one. Bill,
here, SAYS he don't know much about
the fauna an fora of this part of the
country but he thinks it was some kind
of a moth that came to the light That
was the last l heard of my mule"