The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-08

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dog, have about all disappeared, their
hides being. tanned.
There is a snake in Texas called the
coach whip that lives in the ground in the
prairie country. You may sneak up on
him with a club to hit his head, and be-
fore the club reaches the ground he is
ten feet away, so quick is he in his ac-
tions. They and the bird of paradise go
together, why, cannot tell. have seen
a snake of this sort cross the road a few
rods ahead of my horse, one or more Of
the birds of paradise following like a
streak, and from their peculiar drumming
sound and the throwing out of their
feathers and the rising of their tails would
scare any horse or living mortal on earth
out of their wits, and in an instant they
We're gone. 1t was all done so quickly
one could not realize what had occurred.
Some Bear Stories
OF bear stories the autobiographer has
number. He tells few of them, as fol-
lows:
Zone evening when the sun was bare
.ly one hour high I was dispatched with
quite number of little powders done up
in white paper with string tied around
them to a neighbor living more than a
mile away, the greater distance through
a thick forest. About half way through
this forest large black walnut tree had
been felled, and the butt cut sawed off
and rolled few feet beyond its cut. BY
this tree my trail went, and it was here
that I got my first lessons in scouting.
Passing by the end of the log-possib1y
WhiStling, boy fashion, encountered a
good sized black bear, which was as sur
prised as I was. He was standing in the
trail, but raised on his hind feet, Adam
Zad fashion. I was but few feet from
him. but I did not take time to look at
&c onl ohy ind loo or
accurately measure the distance ]
whirled homeward and forgot the pow
ders in my hand, and they were scatter
ed.
81 do not remember climbing the fence
When came to / was painting sBeari
Bear!' all that I could say until I got a
fresh supply of wind Old dad was a
cruel old Virginia master, who had no
faith in what boys might say, but was al
ways ready with the strap-generally a
hickory CAD about four feet long. He
was man of his word on this score as
well as others, and saying, III show you
what bear isl! he commenced to apply
his gad, and I broke loose and he after
me in the direction of the bear. He went
to the fence of the outer field and hol-
Tered to him Come onl and he came. and
it required little maneuvering on my
part to get around to his rear while his
head was yet turned in the direction ]
wanted him to go. This I did by jump
ing behind a big maple tree
dad passed the log and had but fair
ly done so when up went scream, the
old man whirled, and / flew if ever a
boy did fly. Those people did without
their medicine that night. and perhaps
would have done better had they never
received it. never got that thrashing,
and knew better than to tell anyone
else just then. as dad told me to let ii
be a closed incident. and he never told
anybody.
scouting with party of two Others
southeast of the Ogon mountains in New
Mexico, about twenty five miles east oil
Las Vegas, and in very dangerous hos
tile Indian country. We were cooking oul
bacon and making our coffee In con-
eealed place, smudging our fires. Oul
horses were grazing close BY, brides