Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1901-02-15

WAS LYING ACROSS THE BEARS BODY.
The thing had dreaded in my forcs:
wanderings with Jack"
What" the society demands. with
one voice.
II had raised my rifle when | felt
something tluttcring in my hair.
fancicd a leader had slipped from my
hat rim. Oh. horror it Nas Il spider
and as shook my head violently to dis
lodge it. it struggled into my ear.
Il have never been conscious of hav-
ing fired that third shot. Somehow the
life was discharged, and by the same
chance the bulletlaid the bear low.
Il tainted, and when | came to my
self, | was lying across the bears body.
with six strange men standing around
me.
Ten thousand boiler factories were
at work in my brain. Hear the noises
cried. Will no one stop them?'
And now comes the strangest part
OF my story.
The engineer of Jacks yacht once
got mosquito in his ear. 1t drove him
quite mad before we could find doctor.
He hung over the yachts side, held
hy six of the crew, begging for death.
When the doctor arrived upon the scene.
lie applied a handkerchief. wet with
ether, TO the mans ear, quoting the
mosquitoes struggles and restoring the
Iuan to sanity.
Il believed myself in the mans plight.
stark, staring mad, when, upon this
peak of Darien, 500 miles from an am
bulancc and surgeon, heard one of
the men to whom | had so wildly APP
pcaled reply, quietly: Have no fear.
madam, you are in safe hands, for we
are all DOCTORS
They deluged my ear with water
from nearby stream, which they
brought in tin cup. Finding the
spider still unsubdued, one of the doc
tors asked for hypodermic syringe.
Five were instantly proffered. An icy
arrow penetrated, seemingly, to the
seat of the gray matter. still without
effect upon the spider, whose pernicious
EITHER is the only remedy said,
at last, and as coherently as l could
l repeated the story of the engineer.
Enthusiastically returned the
doctor who was attending to me
why, of course. Brown. fetch out you;
duce from the depths of his waistcoat-
pocket a small bottle of ether. may
be instantly retired from the presi-
tlency of our society. 1t transpired
later that Brown was physician with
an alien Observation-Disclosures car
ried ether with him everywhere to an
aesthetic his specimens.
'In an instant relief came such
blessed relief as only one who has
passed through an experience like mine.
can appreciate.
'The rest of the story is soon told.
When had gathered myself together,
the six doctors presented themselves
to me with due formality. They dfned
that night at our camp, on my elk.
Jack was thoroughly ashamed Of
me. For what did the elk and the bear
matter, with the memory Of the spider.
fresh in our minds9
:.No. decidedly" Mrs. Jack repeats.
as the maid fetches her a second cup of
tea, II shall never dare to look tiger
in the face, after my Waterloo on the
Big Muddy. 1t would have been
pleasing legend for my tombstone
this:
Zone
To whom the forests were an open book;
Who Joined to piana's daring the skill OF
her spear
Lies here
Slain by bug in her ear"
Mary Wakeman Botsford, in San
Francisco Argonaut.
&C. w. NJ. Reynolds selected "Mas-
ter Timothy" when writing his choice
essays, which bore the title "Naster.
Timothy'S BOOkcaSe"