The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-06
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WRITTEN O THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
.Panthers, what wee-all calls Mountain
lions " observed the Old Catleman. wear
ing meanwhile the sdpient air of him who
feels equipped of his subject, is plenty
f%urtivs, not 10 say mighty Sedyoulous TO
skgIk. That's why a gent don't meet mp
with more OF EN- while pir0otiu' about in
the mills. Them cats hears him. or they sees
him.au' him stll ignorant tharof: with that
they bashfully withdraws. Which It's to he
urged in favor Of mountain lioD that they
never forces themsefs on no gent: they're
shore consideTate, that away. an speshul
OF themse'fs If ones ever hurt. you can
bet II won't be . accident. However. il
amt for me to go round inpugnin' the
motives Of no mountain Ion. particular
when the entire tribe is strangers to me
complete. But still a love OF trooth compeIs
me 10 Couceae that If mountain lions amt
cpwarlly. they're shore cautious a whole
lot. cattle an calves they passes up as Il
heap too hellicose an none Of 'em ever
faces any animile more warlike than g.
l'hE colt nr mebby a half-grown dee..
Once. I'm ridin' along the Caliente, when
] hears a crashin' in the bushes on the
bluff above-two hundred foot high. she is.
an as sheer as the walls OF this yere tav-
ern. As l lifts my eyes. a fear-frenzied
mare an colt comes chargin' W an pro-
jeuts themse'fs oyer the precipice.
They're dead as Julius Caesar when
' rides into EN-. while "A brace of mountain
Ions is skirtin' up an down the aige OF
the blum they leaps from. mewin' an LASH
in their long tails in hot entnoosiasm.
shore. the cats has been chasln' the mare
an foal. an locoes 'em to that extent
they don't know where there leadin'. an
they nacherally makes that death jump
like I relates. I slams away with my six
shooter, but beyond givin' the mountain
Hons a convUlsive start, l can't say 1 does
any execootion. They turns an goes streak
in it through the pine woods like A drunk
ard TO n barn raisin'
"rinid shorel They're that tlmid semi
nary girls compared 10 'em is as sternly
Courageous as a passed. OF buccaneers. out |
In Mitchells canyon, a couple of the Lee
Scott riders cuts the trail OF a mountain
lion aud her two kittens. Now. whatever do
y"u-all reckon this yere old tabby does? |
Raseiy deserts said offsprings without even |
bariu' a tooth, an the two COW punchers
takes EN- gently by their tails an beats
out their joovenile brains. That's straight: /
that mother lion goes swarmln' up the
canyon like she amt got a minute TO live.
An You can gamble the limit that where
q animile sees its children perish without
frontin' up for war. It don't possess the
Commonest roodlments Of sand. Sech, son,
is mountain Hons.
IT'S one cyenin' IN the Red Light when
Colonel Green, who's got through his days
toll on that Coyote paper he's editor OF.
onfolds concernin' q panther roundup
which he pulls off in his yooth.
" This yere panther hunt says Colonel
Green. as he fills his third tumbler. occurs
mighty likely I'm goin' on seventeen
I'm a leader among my young
companions At the time; in fact, 1 alters is.
An. I'm proud to say that my soopremacy
away is doc TO the dominant char
scter Of my inteilects. I'm ever bright an
sparklin' as a child, an / recalls how my
apttoode for learnin' promotes me to be
reEyarded as the smartest lad in school.
II thar's visitors. or II the selectmen In
vadcS that academy to sort . size us up,
teacher alters plays me on ON. I'd go
20 the front Tor the outIt. Which I'm wont
IN sech harrowin' OCCASIONS TO recite ii ode
the teachers done wrote 1t himse'f-an'
which is entitled NAPOLEON'S MAD "a
iEER. Thar's twenty-four stanzas to it;
n while these interlopin' selectmen sets =.
har lookin' owly an sagacious. I'd wallop
Dose with the twenty-four verses. stampin'
Up an down. an ~accompayin' said recita-
ions with sech multitude OF reckless ges- l
ures. it comes plenty clost to backin' ev- |
plumb outer the room. Yere's the /
verse: 1
I'd drink an sw'ar an r'ar an tar {
An fall down in the mud, e
While the y'eaTth for forty miles about /
Is kiveTed with my blood.
! Quail can see from the speciment that J
ur schoo!master amt simply fiirtin' with f
he muses. when he originates tina epic; no, O
IT. he means business: an whenever ]
hrows 1t into the selectmen. ] does les a
Ice. Them trustees used to silently line out 7
1r home when L finishes an never a yeep. n
simply stuns 'em: it shore fills EN- to the +
rim, :
AS 1 gazes rarward.' goes on the Colo 1.
as by one rapt impulse he upIifts his
yes an his nosepaint as I gazes harvard :,
says on them sunflled days, an spesbul
ever 1 gets betrayed into talkin' about g,
m. L can't hardly tar myself from III. a.