The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1901-09-19


there was more trouble for the fakis.
The boy appeared very well satisfied
with The roostiaR place he had found
end the old man was no more success.
full In getting him back 20 earth than
he had been with the bali Of twinr.
Then we did have sample Of spleadid
rage.
"The old rascal worked himself up
into a perfect fury. He yelled and
danced and gesticulsted and gave the
be 81 exhibition of human demon that
I ever saw. BY way OF heightening the
effect and increasing our interest 10
the show. be dropped into broken but
Ineligible English, the substance of
which was;
"'Am / TO he made an idiot of by
a ball Of string and fool by chokera
(smali boy)? Allah Forbid will
them both teach that they may not
triflc with one so old and 40 Wise
Then rushing TO the filthy old bag
that had been lyizg all this time on the
ground, he thrust an arm into 1t and
drew forth the most murderous-look-
ing knife ] ever saw. II had q curved
blade about nine inches long about
three inches across at the hilt and ta-
pering TO . fine point. Placing the
knife between his teeth and grasping
the Irvine IN both hands the old boy.
Allowing marvellous agility for one OF
his apparent age, went mp the cord as
the boy had, and In less time than II
takes 10 tell Il he, too, had disappeared
from view.
"IIe had us all going by this time.
and We just sat there gaping up into
the air like lot Of precious idiots,
There was seconds absolute silence,
and then an agoniElhg yell, 30 piercing
that It sunk into ones very bones. An
other second. which seemed like ap
age, and then We saw a dark object
come hurting down from the shy.
I Down aud down Il came until IL landed
/ unly a few feet from us with sickcn-
/ leg sort Of ihud.
Looking TO see what II was, We saw
| the head Of the hoy who had climbed
the cord lying there, severed from the
body at about the middle Of the neck.
! 4 closer examination showed that the
face wore a horrible expression, while
the scarlet blood poured from the di.
vlded arteries and the dark yenous
! blood from the veins. The twltching
Of the nrwly-cut muscles and the wind
pipe, and the cleanly joints OF
two Of the ccryical vertebrate were
quite plain to the army surgeon and
TO the rest of us. all Of whom knew a
little Of anatomy from the field hos
pitfalls.
I'VE hadn't by any means got over
the shiveTy feeling we experienced al
seeing the head ~ the late urchin
when down came an arm, cut of
through the shoulder joint and giving
all the anatomical relations in that
part quite plnlnly. 4 moment later
the other arm dropped at our feet
and an examination showed that II
Ind been cut of In exactly the same
way. The doctor said the old raEca
carved clcvcrly enough 20 have beer
, surgeon ai the Royal college.
I'VE were about ready for anything
after that, aud 80 were not particular
! ~ surprised when a leg, severed ~
the hip joint and exposing IN" head o.
frmur. the muscles twitchinP just o.
you may have seen them twitch in q
IRE hly-killcd animal came along. Thu
other leg followed in due time, ant
then came the trunk,
"N moment later. the old man wa
seen coming dawn the string. and
when he dropped TO the ground from
the end OF II. he was literally covered
with gore from head 10 foot. The
knife, still held between his teeth, wal
fairly dripping with blood. HiS cyri
appeared wilder than ever, his fea
lures drawn, and he paced back ans
forth for few seconds like a chained
tiger.
Then he collected the head, limb