The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-26
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
How the Workings Made Hunting
Prosperous.

Mr.. Worbling was an honest, indus
trious, capable highwayman of guide.
whose business it was to direct men
through the mountain canyons under
the hallucination that he was showing
them where to hunt wapiti at closest
range. Worbling had three sons, and
one day an inspiration came to him.
The result of the inspiration was that
his eldest son secured the office of con.
stable in one of those commodious Wyo-
ming precincts. Then Hy shot an elk.
skinned it and stuffed the hide and
waited for the opening of the season.
The first hunter who engaged him
was an oil dealer from Pittsburgh. Him
Hy led by devious ways until after sew.
eral hours he spoke gently and pointed
around a bowlder and indicated that
elk meat was there. The Pittsburgher
gazed entranced upon magnificent
specimen, took palpitating aim and
shot bullet into the sun which hung
afar off in the heavens. Nevertheless,
the animal fell. The hunter rose up
and yelled and danced and started to-
ward the fallen beast, when out of the
gloom appeared a man with tin star
and blank warrant charging John
Doe with shooting elk out of season.
Thinking that the officer might take it
into his head to hang him, the Pitts
burgher paid $S2.41. Even then the Off.
Ger refused to let him have the elk or
even to approach it. He said it was
contraband of the state.
One hour afterward, at point mile
away, Hy Worbling stopped, dropped
to his knees and by pantomime show
intimated that more wapiti was to be
had. The man of oil cautiously looked
again. There, leaning against tree,
asleep, about 100 yards away, was a
beautiful specimen. The bullet sent
by the hunter cut the top twig off the
highest tree of a grove 40 feet to the
right of the animal. but, nevertheless
the elk fell, pierced in a vital spot.
But before the hunter could move to-
ward his victim again appeared that for
gotten constable, and this time the
court costs were $97.13.
The visiting Nimrod had great luck
He killed nine elk ,4nat day, but he was
very foolish. Everss time he thought
that surely the next time he would not
be bothered by the constable, but, how.
ever laboriously they tried to circum.
vent him, the man was always on hand
to ask for his fees according to statute
And he positively refused to let the
easterner have even the sorry satisfac
tion of approaching his elk. He was &
very callous, conservative officer.
The next day the man started back
for Pittsburgh. This kind of hunting
was too spendtl,rifty for him. He hat
spent S722.3s on elk and hadn't even &
tooth to show for it. Hy Worbling anc
his son Henders watched him disappear
into the railroad coach, Henders OBJ
serving the departure from safe dis
tance.
"Dog-gone it," said Hy, I'm reall,
glad he's gone. He was gettin' waste
full toward the last"
"Wasteful of his money!" inquired
Henders, in surprise.
NO; wasteful of material. Blame i
all, he hit the thing three times and II
have to patch it with piece of my oil
coat before can expect it to hold ha,
any more. What does he think an elk i
made of, anyhow? Iron?''
The Worbling family worked thei
stuffed elk all that season, but retribu
ton came at last. One particular
| nervous man trembled so badly whe1
| he pulled that the bullet found lode
| ment in Pierce Worbling, the ma
whose duty it was to jerk the rop
| which was attached to the stuffed elk
hind leg, and old Hy had to pay So
funeral expenses. 1t hit him very har
ir the midst of pinched times, he sail
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