The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-22

sandy bottom and allowing the ocean
sWells to drive and throw them about
as they will
Although sea offers have the timidity
which Is natural to all wild animals,
they are better bale to protect them
selves than any of the other animals
which have their homes in the sea. The
swiftness os their movements makes it
impossible for them easily to catch any
kind of small fish, and thus they can
Iappease their hunger with the dam
test sood.
No sharks can catch them; they
could be twenty feet away while Mr..
Shark was turning on his back and if
the shark was directly beneath them
they could throw themselves de feet in
the air like Kaleidoscope ball, while
the ugly monster was swapping his
jaws. The hunter is in his box, the
| tide is coming in, and, with powerful
field glass to assist his practiced eye
he eagerly scans each coming roller. He
has been here every day for week and
his rifle has lain untouched by his side.
To-day something may happen.
All at once he starts and mutters a
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will soon know what it is for the swells
ale coming swiftly and the distance be-
tween himself and the object he has
seen will be quickly lessened Yes,
there it is again; there is no mistake,
1t Is an otter, not more than coo yards
away. The hunter ieys down his glass
and there is $500 worth Of beautiful,
shining fur plainly visible to the naked
eye.
The man In the tower picks UP his
Sharp's rifle, inserts a 120-grain cart
ridge in the chamber, and there is a
wicked, Wistful CLEAN in the keen eye
of the hunter as he raises his weapon
for the first shot There is Il flash, a
recou, and a report which is scarcely
distinguishable IN the roaring of the
breakers to the man who holds the
gun. Ammunition is no object, and,
with tightening rapidity, he loads and
fires his piece. That otter will not be
more than ten feet away from where
he was when the hunter pulled the
trigger when he gets there and that
hunter can hit bounding deer at 300
yards twice out of five shots. The otter
enjoys himself in the dangerous COM
pany of murderous bullets, which are
doing their best to find him.
Another huge breaker brings him
within 200 yards of the blazing rifle. A
quick recoil of the heavy gun turns the
hunter half round; there is an unnat-
ural splash which tells the man some
thing has happened. He strains his
eyes; no need of his glass to see there
1pnH tn lsa nd al u; TIM,
that there is a big hole somewhere in
that $500
No need to shoot again; no otter
could bleed like that and not be washed
ashore The hunter lays down his
heated gun; there will be no more OF
ters in sight to-day. He sees his game
almost opposite his tower; it is drift |
ing helplessly toward the shore. That |
skin is his, and its possession means |
that he will have everything he wants |
for another year, if he does not fire a |
single shot
The fierce CLEAN of desire has left his |
dirty face and has been replaced by |
one of possession. He is wild with joy,
How he wishes he could get down from |
that tower and be at the spot where
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sand, but he must wait until the tide
falls a little. One of his half-breed
boys, who Is ten or eleven years old, is
noping lazily along the beach; his
quick eye detects something. Like
frightened wolf he leans over the sand
and is soon beside the dead otter
With yell of delight he flies toward
he shanty on the bluff to tell his moth
# and the half-dozen or so of other
little half-breeds what has happened,
md they all come trooping down the
reach as fast as their legs can carry
hem.
The tide Is going out now and the
blood of the otter stains the sand which
las lured him to destruction and the
bbing ripnles tenderly caress for the
asst time the pretty animal which has
'een their playmate all its life, and the
ca will moan for the free-b born thing
which has always had a home in its
osom.
Some way or other the news spreads
uickly, and other hunters and crowds
t Siwashes come trooping towards the
cad otter from all directions Morn
hg Oregonian.
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