West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-11-08

tho human race. 80 witness the Chi
nesc. Whatsoever tafa II was TO cook
that wcel, ,'cteru'.9cd % try the old
lndy's prescription Rice was procured,
about peck. I tli.n,.. and the man
who was cooking. pro tom. put the en-
tire quantity onto hon I'm huge ham
boiler over n slow fire. as per the d..
rections Of tie maiden aunt The rice
seemed 10 hc doing nicely when some
one came In ana said that bunch Of
antelope was over on the hills and
there wrs good chance 10 get a cou-
pie. E'.ry man got his gun. all but
the cook. md h. looked at the rice, that
hadn't done a thing over the slow fire.
In way that would melt your heart.
Just MY luck that II should be my
week 20 pot wrestlc WHOM there's good
hunting right at ones front door,
"'Oh. come on some one said.
Didn't Eoleit's aunt say the rice
ought TO be cooked over a slow fre?
Kcllctt. get your aunt's letter md read
the directions for cooking that rice
again
The cook diCn't need n second In
vitation. and they got into their sad
dies. cook and all. aud went for the
antelope.
"Now. antelope are not like station
airy washtubs: they move about. And
when tant particular outfit arrived at
the spot where those antelope were
last seen they had moved, but the boys
found traces OF them and continued on
their trail. They went In the foothills
and they searched for those antelope
nll day. They caught up with old man
Halls outfit ut dinner time and were
Invited TO take n bite. Coming homo
by way OF the Circle Star ranch,
Colonel Semmes asked them In TO have
mint julop-the colonel was n South
Carolinlan and he had just succeeded
In raising some mint. They had sew
ernl--I fear more than severnl-drlnks
before leaving for home. with never a
trace OF antelope nor thought OF the
rice cooking over the slow fire. The
colonel remembered some hard cider
that he had. and topping Off on that
they set out. The weather was pretty
warm and on their way home they ex-
perienced some remorso over the hard
elder Now hard cider Is an accumu-
lative drink; 1t piles up interest like
debt or unpaid taxes. And by the
time those Engllshmen had turned the
little lane leading into their home cor
raj they saw sight that made their
sombreros rise. AS l have said be-
fore. II was hot, being somewhere in
the month OF August. Gentlemen, I
hardly expect you to believe me when
say II was showing on their house,
and not on another blessed thing In
the landscape.
THE blamed thing about II was that
every man took the phenomenon TO be
his own private view OF snakes, or
their dubious equivalent, manifested
In another and more terrifying form.
But when they got bit closer the
horror increased. Flying right out OF
their windows were perfect drifts OF
snow, banks OF II, gentlemen, and the
thermometer up past hundred. One
of the men looked about him and no.
ticed the pallor on the faces OF the
rest
Do you notice anything strange, old
chap? These cursed American drinlksv
Strange" The boy he had spoken
TO was about eighteen, nice. red
checked English lad, out with his uncle
learning the cattle business. I'VE al
ways tried TO lead good life, and here
am a pnretic before I've come OF
age
They halted their horses and held
consultation. Tho boss came to tho
conclusion that since they had all
seen II there was nothing to do but