Newport daily independent., 1902-10-25
SOME STORY TELLERS.
An Ens1ishman Who Was Pretty Good, But There Wns nn Amen
 lean Miner Present.

ssThe 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, relates the New York Tribune. "Such one will spoil any party and throw gloom on any gathering he happens to be in. An En- glishman of this type was once a visit or in my town, and at the club he be came an unmitigated nuisance. Nc 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 Cheyenne in those er-to-be-forgotten days when cattle sold at $75 head and ev- cry one in the cattle country simply reeked with wealth. 1t was good story, but as soon as it was finished the Englishman rang ill one of an experl- ence he had had at Monte Carlo that made the Cheyenne tale seem like bottle of flat champagne.
 linen an ex-army officer told ot a company of infantry at Gettysburg that had been sent up to capture cer- tain hill. They didn't secure it, but 75 per cent. of the company lay dead or wounded on that bloody hillside before the boys in blue could be driven back.
 ''The Englishman capped that with an experience of his in India. Out of company of 76 Sikhs that he com manded only two escaped himself and another, the other shot so full of holes that he looked like a nutmeg grater.
 When the refreshments made nec- essary by this last anecdote had been imhibed another man so forgot himself as to relate an experience he had had while hanting bears. The Englishman chimed in at once with legend of bear hunt of his own. He had only six shots in his magazine rife and was at tackled by four adult and two cub bears. After an exhibition of fancy shooting that must have made the performances of Wild Bill 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 Munehausen positively hurt, but when it was at last broken iAO Id CC Clltit AlSAA ieAh heAN 9O AOH been tempting was upon him.
 "'That experienced said the soft voice of q six-foot mining man, who had been silent, reminds me of a simi- lar one I myself once had. l was after antelope and had chased a pair of them all the afternoon. They finally came to a canyon and made for it. Just as they got to it's entrance 1 shot twice at them, missing both times. I didn't fire again, for the reason that those two shots were all that I had in my magazine rife. Nothing daunted, spurred my weary mount forward and soon found myself within the shadows of the canyon, which rose precipitous- ly. With the idea of resting my horse I dismounted and that wretched bron cho took prompt advantage of my kindness by jerking the reins from my hand and making bolt of it. Look ing around for the cause I saw grizzly at least nine feet high rushing toward me with open mouth. 1 can tell you I legged it up that canyon and busy brain accompanied 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 I 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.'