Daily camera., 1898-01-05
"'Great Aaron, Dick said I, pulling
Dicks sleeve, Look at that

Great Aaron, DICK, Salo l, pulllnG
Dicks sleeve. Look at that
81 seen it this mile OF more said
Dick. It's hankerin' after me, and
only hope it'll keep on after us till we
git to Keery's opening. I'm achin' for
it to do that. Then I'll surprise it,
"Keery's opening was gap i'll the
woods, and ravine 20 feet deep, mile
or so further on. The lynx kept right
on, and when we got to the opening the
animal was still with us.
Now said Dick, see me scatter
him!' {lt
The lynx mad crouched down only a
few feet from the edge of the nearest
wall of the ravine. Before had any
idea of how Dick intended to scatter
him, he grabbed up a can of nitrog,y-
cerin and hurled it with all his might
at the animal, which was not more than
90 feet away. The can struck the side
o. the lynx with dull thump, and the
yielding flesh and fur did not offer re-
s:stance enough to explode it. The
force of the blow keeled the lynx over on
its back, and the can began to roll
slowly down gradual decline that led
from where the lynx lay to the edge of
the ravina wall. l am not ashamed to
say that 1 stood somewhat aghast at
this display of genius on the part of
Devil Dick, for knew that the instant
the can rolled over the wall and dropped
on the rocks at the bottom the eXplo-
sion that had been averted by the lynx's
body would surely follow, and that the
man had an important engagement
with at Jones' new driller that day
would look for me in vain.
Quick as 1 could do it, and it must
have been pretty quick, jumped from
the wagon, tore like mad up the ravine,
and stood beneath where the torpedo
would roll over the edge of the ravine,
with my hands raised to catch ihaSit
came down, and prevent it from sfIiE
ing the rocks. A scraggy Iaf s3@a
kind grew on the edgeA2e&sfIE
at the top OF the w.s 4 ~ n q Ids
to my post in theTSg :
nitroglycerin had rolled ID efKe Aee
and struck against main stsa1ke the
bush. The can strlcx .if Y ;IitEle out of
the center, ana the Iss9 Jss 9 81, jpped
down until it. hung 1y4 de Wah two
stopped. Itssl a 4s 4 ssebreath of
wind mopfpgfhe bush mast dislodge it.
''All thisehadstaAsen but very few sec
onds. The instant I saw the can lodge
against the bush 1 started back for
Dicks wagon as fast as I could go, for
give you my word 1 was afraid the tor
pedo would drop before we got away
from there and scatter Dick and me as
well as the lynx, and wanted to hurry
Dick up. When 1 got to the wagon,
though, there stood Dick with another
can of glycerin raised, ready to hurl
after the first one. He lowered it,
though, and looked around at me with
disgust and disappointment on his face,
and, merciful me. how he was swear
ing!
The Internal varmint has give me
the slip and took to the woods! he hol-
Tered. Lord! How I'd like to bust one
O these shells on his carcass!'
Dick put the can back and we drove
on, Dick swearing till had notion to
get out and walk Before l had made
up my mind fully roar and rumble
came following US down the road, and a
shower of rock thumped and pattered
on all sides of us. We hadn't got away
half a minute too soon. The torpedo
had lost its hold on the bush and
dropped to the bottom of the rayine.
Its too thunderin' bad!' Devil Dick
ripped out before the rocks were done
falling How that'd ascattered that
Internal varmint of lynx if it had only
struck right
"That was Dick-Devil Dick Warner.
Genius? l should say so! And to think
that after handling nitrogiycerin in
his whole-souled and off-hand man
ner for ten years and more he
should die of a carbuncle. Poor Devil
Dick! You should have enjoyed know
ing him, I'm sure you would."-N. Y.
Sun.