The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-08

twelve to fifteen feet from tip to tip His
gun went off all right. but the elk never
moved or seemed to notice 1t, and he
fired again and again with ditto as re-
suit each time. He dubbed his gun and
stole up toward the elk to kill it in that
way, when he ran up against glass
mountain and hurt himself and was as
tonished to find that that elk was twenty
five miles away beyond a great and al
most impossible canyon.
Ihe Absed1an mountain in the Yellow
stone park, which is passed by all tour
lists, would, but for the color of the glass,
sanction Bridger's story.
Boiled on the Hook
He told of how he could catch beauti-
full one and one-half pound mountain
trout with an undated hook in bubblihg
brook or mountain stream and throw it
over on the other side of the rock or
ground on which You Stood and, without
taking it off his hook, cook it in the hot
spring just below; and of another place
where the hot spring broke out from the
side OF the mountain and ran over the
deep cold water from the mountain
stream, and that he only had to drop an
undated hook down through the four
feet of zoe degrees hot water and catch
a mountain trout In the cold strata below
and pull it up through the hot well cooked
and ready for the mouth
These pass as fish stories. but have
done the same as Bridger said might be
done, and so can anyone else who will
go there.
In my day 1 have seen many strange
things and in considerable numbers that
no one else or but very few ever saw. i
have seen a scow, thirty feet long, four
teen feet wide and two feet deep, moored
in a school of nullet at night when all
around was dark, in Corpus Christi bay,
when by the raising of a lantern in the
center of the boat and hitting the side
with the oars, in five minutes the boat
would be filed, and in ten minutes be
sunk by the mullets jumping into it if the
light was not lowered. This boatload of
mullet would be cared or pushed to the
shore where the people of Live Oak and
adjoining counties (the hog counties OF
Texas had driven thousands of hogs
there to be fattened on the mullet that
We're thrown out as the high tide receded
have seen at one time as far as the
eye could reach and could have been
measured one hundred and eight or fifteen
miles In distance, one and quarter miles
wide, on the beach of Corpus Christi ISL
and, Texas representing the high and
low tide), millions of sea turtles that
would average from three to six hundred
pounds each, and possibly more millions
than there ever We're of buffalo on the
great American plains.
These turtles came here from the
mighty deep and the islands of the sea
beyond to deposit their eggs in the sandy
seashore, coming with high tide and as
the tide receded the turtles would slide
IN under one another so as to look like
shingles on a roof. They would deposit
from nine to twenty eggs in hole they
made In the ground, how cannot tel
you, and when high tide came they fioa +
ed out and other millions would come
The turtles only came there about six
days IN the year to lay their eggs. Where
they went no man knoweth In twenty
one days time the top eggs in the tur-
ties nest OF eggs hatched and a turtle
about the size of an ordinary mans thumb
commenced moving around, and by mil
lions they would dazzle the eye. confuse
the vision, and craze the comprehension
The high tide came in and they the
unisns falrtles. aoated out with it to 90 nc