El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01
A Funny Account Of a Serious
PrediCament.

were of a kind. and so We were. as
strong hearted as could be as far as he
was concerned
The old buck turned and walked
down the trail. He was little too far
for my Hawkins. being 200 yards. I'M
less I could have had raised sights
and at that time such things were not
dreamed of in our philosophy"
often wondered during our war
with Spain when I read that the Span
ish soldiers shot at our vessels $500
yards. and sent the bullets all around
them. but afterwards ] saw in the pa
pers that Japan had ordered an i'm
mense amount of alcohol from the Uni
ted States to be used in manufactur-
ing smokeless powder. The mystery
was explained then. for i know we mad
a brand of BUST head red eye" that
held up 1900 yards without raising the
sights. and IL a gun was given the prop
er elevation. smokeless powder being
made from it. bullet would go clean
around the world. "elevating" being
one Of its strong points.
began tofollow him at trail arms. and
when ever he stopped to browse or ex-
anime for foes I stopped. I had learn
ed as a boy in Texas. that when our
red deer jump up and run around in
front of you you can run at full speed
in full view. and they do not look back
until they stop to see where you are
and / have killed many an old buck
by this manoeuvre. but the first time
/ tried IL on a bunch of black tail was
up on the hills between White river
and Posey creek. No sooner did I ex-
pose myself. taking short cut on
them. than they changed direction to
the right oblique. Needing their gait
and jumped up so high they looked like
they were suspended in the air. Know
ing this I had to keep my eye on the
buck. and moved as swiftly as I could
when he walked straight away from
me. There was a large rock on the
right brink of the ridge and several
smaller ones between IL and the south
side. On the north side of this ridge
the snow covered the ground n foot
deep, and on the south the grass and
trees were putting on their spring suit.
I said to myself Now. old buck. as
soon as 7 can get to one OF those small
boulders | will take a good rest and
at seventy yards. will down you.
Just as he passed these rocks he
stopped and only his head was visible.
| was half bent and motionless. but
hearing a stick break to my right, I
Strengthened up, and saw a sight that
almost made my heart stop beating
and raised my hack feathers straight
up
Not over fifteen steps of was the
head of Old Buster. the mammoth
grizzly. and his eyes exhibited the most
intense establishment: his ears. set
forward, looked as large as my two
hands. But in a second the whole ex-
preston changed to hate and anger
His eyes took on a green look and
his ears dropped back on his neck.
He popped his teeth. gave a snort. and
started toward me.
knew il was race for life and even
If I stood my ground. and gave him a
dead shot. he could kill me. Only a
few days before a Texan named Bill
Edgar. who was hunting near Fl. Tijon
had been killed by a grizzly. His horse
came into the fort late in the evening
and next morning a squad OF soldiers
took the back track with an Indian
trailer. They found Edgar dead and
a monster grizzly lying on him also
dead. having been shot through the
heart with a Mississippi rife ball
or course the knowledge OF this
made me put in my best ticks. and
leaned forward and ran as close to the
ground as a chapparal cock. or striped
lizard when a coach whip snake is
after him. Luckily for me there was
swag between me and the rocks. so
that when | stopped I was out of the
grizzly's sight.
Every time he popped his teeth and
snorted il raised me up in the air.
we'll. I'll be moderate. and say about
six feet-but I always hit the ground
like fox squirrel chunked out a tree,
running at full speed. made several
hobbies running over the rocks. but
managed to bobble away from the bear
and 1 think I am safe in saying that
there Is no animal on top Of the earth
can beat a man badly scared. running.
Lexington never in his paimiest days
made better time. had probably