The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-15
The story TeiIers.

THE Lord save me from an English
man who has done things or says he
has," said a Western man at the Wal
dorf-Astoria recently, according to the
New York Tribune "Such a one will
spoil any party and throw gloom on
any gathering he happens to be in. An
Englishman of this type was once a
visitor in my town and at the club he
become an unmitigated nuisance. No
matter what story was told, the Brit
isher invariably went the narrator one
better. For example, one man told of
big faro game he had seen at Chey-
enne in those never-to- be-forgotten
days when cattle sold at $75 a head and
every one in the cattle country simply
reeked with wealth. 1t was a good
story, but as soon as it was finished
the Englishman rang in one of an ex-
perience he had had at Monte Carlo
that made the Cheyenne tale seem like
a bottle of fiat champagne.
Then an ex-army officer told of a
company of infantry at Gettysburg
that had been sent to capture certain
hill. They didn't secure it, but rs per
cent. of the company lay dead or
wounded on that bloody hillside before
the boys in blue could be driven back
1.-The Englishman capped that with
an experience of his in India. Out of a
company of rs SikhS that he command
ed only two escaped-himself and an
other, the other shot so full of holes
that he looked like a nutmeg crater.
when the refreshments made ne
cessary by this last anecdote had been
imbibed another man so forgot himself
as to relate an experience he had had
While hunting bears. The EngliShman
chimed in at once with a legend of
bear hunt of his own. He had only
six shots in his magazine rifle and was
attacked by four adult and two cub
bears. After an exhibition of fancy
shooting that must have made the per-
formances of Wild BilF or Billy the
Kid look amateurish the last bear fell,
shot through the heart, only six feet
from where the doughty Englishman
stood.
THE silence that followed the rela-
ton of this Munchausen positively
hurt, but when it was at length broken
the fate that Englishman had SO long
been tempting was upon him.
That experience said the soft
voice of a six-foot mining man, who
had been silent, reminds me of SINH
lar one 1 myself once had 1 was after
antelope and had chased pair of them
all the afternoon. They finally came to
got to its entrance l shot twice at them
missing both times. | didn't fire again,
for the reason that those two shots
were all that I had in my magazine
rifle. Nothing daunted, l spurred my
weary mount forward and soon found
myself within the shadows of the can
yon, which rose precipitously. With
the idea of resting my horse I dis
mounted and that wretched broncho
took prompt advantage of my kindness
by jerking the reins from my hand and
making bolt of it. Looking around
for the cause 1 saw a grizzly at least
nine feet high rushing toward me with
open mouth. l can tell you 1 legged it
up that canyon and a busy brain acr
companied me. I couldn't shoot the
grizzly, for my last shot had been fired
at the antelope. Just then a rock came
into view, and utterly spent, 1 cast
myself upon it,
Here the miner came to a full stop,
and the deeply interested Englishman
leaned breathlessly forward. What
he queried, what did the bear do my
dear fellow?' Why returned the
other, without batting an eyelash, he
ate me up, of course"