Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-12-04

CHAPTER VIII (Oontinucdl

"There's plenty of strange plants oul
In these parts said Diny, laughing
"but never see one that grow files. Only
there's more ways of killing cat than
hanging him. as the prastc said when he
minded his old brogues wild a gluc-pot
Come here
lie took Of his flannel Jacket. folded it,
and laid it in the bottom Of the boat, but
looked mp directly.
we've got bit o. sail" he said land
there's a nice wind Where are you go
Ing frstt'
Mary looked at her brother, aud Abel
glanced at Bart.
"Ye haven't made up yer minds" said
Dinny. $50 look here. About twenty miles
out yander to the west there's bit of an
island where the ovcrseer and two Oil
GERS whit one day to shute wild pig and
birds, and | went wild EN- Why not go
there till We make up yer minds2 It's a
moghty purity place, and ye're not over
looked by the neighbors' cabins, for
there's nobody lives there at all, at all,
and we can have it our own way"
"Wild pig, thereT said Abel, eagerly.
"Bedad, yis, sor; nice, swate bacon run
ming about on four legs all over the place,
and fruit on the trees, and fish in the say
for the catching. Oh, an It's a moigbty
purity little estate"
"And how could we find it2" cried
Mary.
"By jst setting a SAIL and kaping about
four miles from the shore till yc see 1t
lying like a bit O. cloud off to the south.
Sure, and we could hang our hammocks
there before night, and the mushket here
all ready to shoot pig"
YES" said Mary, in response to a
glance from her brother.
''Then I'll hoist the SAIL" said Bart
NAY, let the boy do it," said Dinny,
land you come and sit down here. III
soon show you thing as would make the
sergeant stare"
Dinny drew large knife from his peck
ct, and flint and steel. The latter he
returned, and, taking the flint, he laid
his open knife on the thwart of the boat.
and with the ilint jagged the edge Of the
blade all along into a rough kind Of saw.
"ThereW he said; that will do. That
irons as soft as cheese"
This last was a slight Hibernian ex-
aggeration; but as Mary hoisted sail, and
Abel put out an oar to steer, while the
lit sea, Dinny began to operate upon the
ring around one OF Bart's ankles, saving
away steadily, and with such good effect
that at the end of an hour he had cut half
through, when by hammering the ring
together with the butt of the musket, the
half-severed iron gave way, and one leg
was free.
Look at that, now" said Dinny, tri-
umphantly. "Now, thin. up wild that 9th
er purity foot!' he cried; and, ms the boat
gided rapidly toward the west, he sawed
away again, with intervals of rejagging
at the knife edge, and soon made a cut
In the second ring.
The island was found just as the Irish
man had fOretold, and as evening ap
preached, without having even sighted G
sail on their way, the little boat began
coasting along, its occupants eagerly
scanning the low, rock-reefed shore
above which waved n luxuriant tropit
growth. The last fetter had been labor
ously sawed through, Dinny having per
sisted in continuing the task, and he now
sat resting and watching the shore with
CRITICAL eye.
All at once, upon sailing round jagged
point to which they had to give wide
berth on account of the fierce race which
swept and edded among the rocks, {
pleasantly wooded little bay opened on
before them with a smooth, sandy shore
where the waves just creamed and giist
ened in the sun.
Look at that, now" said Dinny
That's where we landed: but l wa!
ashleep after pulling long time at tn,
oar, and | aforementioned all about wher,
we went ashore"
How beautifulG' said Jack, gazinj
thoughtfully at the glorious scene, ant
asking herself whether that was to b
her future home.
And dyer call that beautiful sal
Dinny, contemptuously. Young mar
did We liver see Dublin BayT"
NO" said Jack, smiling in the earnes
face before him.
Nor the Hill of Howth?"
Jack shook his head
''Then don't call that beautiful agai
in me presence" said Dinny.
The boat was run up on the shore an
hidden among the rocks, not that it wa
likely that it would be seen, but the pt
sition OF the fugitives and the dread q
being retaken made them doubly ca,
tious, Bart even going SO far as to obi
crate their footprints on the sand.
Now, then" said Dinny, you've 81
the mushket and the bagnet, and thos
two make one; but II / was you I'd CT
down one of them bamboos and shtick ii
bagnet on that, which would make tw
of it, and it would be a moighty purt
tool to kill a pig"
The hint was taken, Bart soon cuttir
down a long, straight lance shaft ar
forcing it into the socket of the bayone
"Hhen next" said Dinny, "if | wa
captain should say let's see about som
thing to ate"
Hear that, Abel2" said Bart.
YES. | was thinking of how we cou
get down some cocoanuts. There a
plenty of bananas"
"Hapes," put in Dinny; "and there's
cabbage growing in the heart of livery oil
of thin bundles of leaves on the top of
shtick as they call palms; but thim's on
vegetables, captain. dear, and me shtol
ach is asking for mate"
'Can we easily shoot a pig-you 81