The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-10
ed BY A. B. Frost.
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front, and l moved my leg.
Wei. sir, Billy landed on the gro
) Gerry shelf Wind River grabbed his
gun and sat up paralyzed. IL was
really most surprising noise. I'VE
, had hard luck in my life, but all the
things that ever happened to ME would
seem like a recess to that bulldog. Our
, domestic difficulties was forgotten.
!. United We Stand, waved the motto of
the lalxe-bed cabin. Jerusalem, That
dog was snake-bit. and hawk-scratcf-
, ed and bit-and-ciawed, and bob-cat-
scratched-and -bft-and- clawed till YOU
couldn't see cussed thing in that cab
IN but blur And of all the kissing and
squawNng and screeching and yelling
!, and snarping and roaring ad growing
you or any other man ever heard, that
was the darnedest. / took a look at
the visitor. He'd got off his horse
and was standing in the doorway with
his hands spread out. His face ex-
pressed nothing at all, very forcible.
Meanwhile, things were boilin' for fair:
cook-stove, frying-pans. stools. boxes.
saddles. tin cans, bull-snakes. hawks.
bobcats. and bulldogs simply fioated
in the air.
I wish you'd tell me what in all
perdition has busted loose in this cabin.
Red SAUNDERS bowls old Wfnd-R
in an injured tone of voice: and
whether 1 shell shoot or sha'n,t l.
There come a seconds luli. I see
Judge Jenkins on the dogs back, his
talents sunk to the hook, whilest he
had hold of an ear with his bill, pullin
manfully. Tommy had swallered the
dogs stumpy tail, and Bob was drag
ging hair out of the enemy like an In
jun dressing hides.
"A bulldog is like an Irishman: he's
brave because he don't know any bet
ter, and you can't get any Drawer than
that, but there's a limit even to Junk
headedness. 1t bored through that
dogs thick skull that he had butted
into a little bit the darnedest hardest
streak of petrified luck that anything
on legs could meet with.
'By-by.' he says to himself. Out
doors will do for mel And here he
comes! Neither the visitor nor me was
expecting him. He knocked the feet
out from under us and sat his master
on top. We got up in time to see a
winged bulldog, with a tail ten foot
long, bounding merrily over the turf
searching his soul for sounds to tell
how scarf he was, whilest a desperate
bob-cat, splitting fire and birthstone,
threw dirt fifty foot in the air trying
to lay. claws on him.
''As they disappeared over the first
rise 1 rolls me a cigarette and lights it
slowly.
Just by way of curiosity says I,
how much Will you take for your
dog?'
My heavens says he. recovering
the power of speech. What kind of
animal was that?'
Come in, says 1, and take drink
you need it,
so we gathered up the ruins and
tidied things some, while the new man
slipped his whisky
N.Y. says he, of sudden. I must
go after my poor dog
81 sort of warmed to him at that.
Dogs all right says /. He'll shake
'em loose and be home in no time.
Now you tell me about them sheep
Sheep? says he, putting his hand
to his head. What was it about
sheep?'
Hello in the housed! sings out
Billy. The children's comm homer
I'VE tumbled out. Sure enough, the
warriors was returning. First come
the Judge, tougher than rawhide, half
walking and half flying, his wings
spread out, .cree-ing' to himself about
bulldogs and their ways; next come
Bobby. still suffering ana swearing,
and behind amble1 Thomas at a lively
wriggle, a coy, large smile upon his
face.
.Ur-r-roup. Roup!' sounds from
the top Of the rise. The family halted
and turned around. expectin' more
pleasure, for there on the top Of the
hill stood the terrible scarf but still
faithful bulldog calling for his master
to come away from that place quick,
before he got killed. But he had one
eye open for safety, and when the
family stopped, he ducked down behind
the hill surprisin.
g Well. I must be going says the
visitor. My nam's Sett-AIgernon AL i
fred Sett--and 1 shall be over next !
week to talk to you about those sheep
Amy time says L Wen be here
ill we have to shovel snow to get at ]
he hay, from the looks of things $
Well I'm very anxious to have a t
good long talk with you about sheep, t
lays he. I've been informed that you I
lad lcng experience in that line in
er-Nevverdah-'
" 'Nevverdah?' says I. 'Oh!-Neva-
la. I beg your pardon-I've got in
he habit of pronouncing 1T that way. :
t wasn't Nevada, by the way--it was
'exas-but that's only a matter of a
Europe or So Yes, I met sheep or
wo in that country I'm sorry to say
" I-er-tl1ink OF engaging in the
usiness, dontcher know says he, re-
axing into his first method of speech;
md should like to consult you pro-
So
" All right, sir, says I. Tn one b.
f the easiest men to consult west of al
ny place east. Can't you stay now "
nd get the load off your mind?'
" 'Well-no,' he says to me very con- So
dentially. You see, that dog is a p
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