Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08

his surcingle had broken or that he
lad witnessed lynching.
WHAT made them jump your
claim 7"
81 don't know. don't know nothi1.
about it, because, as / remarked pre-
vicus. AIM: follered the totterin'
footsteps OF the law none too close
Nor 10 intend to- simply draws
out Of the game fer spell, and lets
the youngster have his fling; then II
he can't make good, I'll take the cards
and finish it for him.
cts like the time l was ranchin'
with an Englishman up in Montana.
This here party claimed the misfor-
tune of bein' a younger son, whatever
that is, and is grubstaked to ranch
by his people back home. Havin &c
CURED an Intimate knowledge of the
West by readin' Bret Harte, and havin'
assim lated the secrets of ranchin' by
correspondence school, he is fitted. am
pie, to teach us natives q thing Or two
and he does it. am worlSin his
outfit as foreman, and it don't take
long to show me that he's COOL
hearted Teller, in spite of his ridin-
boomers an pinochle ege-glass He
amt never had no actual experience,
but he's got a Henry Thompson Seton
book that tells him all about every
thing from field-mice to gorrillys.
Were troubled heap with coyotes
them days, and finally this party sends
home for some Rooshian wolf-hounds.
I'm fer pizenin' sheep carcass, but
he says:
"'No no, me deah man; that's not
sportsman-lilse; we'll hunt 'em. Ay,
hunt EN-! Only fawncy the sport
We'll have, ridin' to hounds.
eve will not says l. I amt goin'
to do no Simon Legree stunts. 1t amt
mans size Bein' English, you don't
count, but I'm growed up
"Nothin' would do him by those
Uncle Toms Cabin dogs, however, and
he had EN- imported clean from Berk-
shire or Sibeery of thereabouts, four
of EN-, great, big, blue ones. They
was as handsome and imposin' as a
set of solid-gold teeth, but somehow
they didn't seem to savvy our play
none One day the cook rolled rain
bar'l down-hill from the kitchen. and
when them blooded critters saw 1T
comm they throwed down their tails
and tore out like rabbits. After that
couldn't see no good in 'em with a
spy,glass.
makes you think they can fight?'
asked one day.
"'Fight?' says H'Anglish. MY deah
man, they're full.blooded. Cost
seventy pun each. They're dreadful
creatures when they're roused-theyll
tear a wolf to pieces like a rag-kill
bears Oh, Rully, perfect
| ly dreadful
| well, 1t wasn't week later that
he went over to the east line with me
to mend barb wire. 1 had my pliers
and Ratchet and some staples. About
mile from the house we jumped up
a little brown bear that scampered off
when he seen us, but bein' agin' a
bluff where he couldn't get away, he
climbed cottonwood -l'English was
simply frothin with excitement.
\ What misfortune! Neyther gun
nor hounds
|
pretty to him. says I. while you run
back and get winchester and them
ferocious bulldogs.
'Wolf-hounds,' says he, with dig
nifty, 'full-blooded, seventy pun each.
They'll rend the poor beast limb from
limb. hate to do it, but it'll be good
practice for them
"'They may be good renders. says
II, but don't forgit the gum
well, throwed sticks at the crit
ter when he tried to unclimb the tree,
till finally the boss got back with his
dogs. They set up an awful holle1
when they see the bear-first one
they'd ever smelled, reckon-and the
" little Teller crawled up some forks
and watched things, cautious. while
they leaped about. bayin' most fierce
and blood-curdlin'.
Glow you goin' to get him DOWN.
says l.
"'I'll shoot him in the lower jaw,
says the Britisher, so he cawn't bite
the dogs. It'll give 'em cawnfidence.
"He takes rim at Mr. Bears CHR
and misses it three times runnin,' he's
that excited.
Settle down, H'Anglish,' says !
He amt got nc double chins. How
many shells left in your gum
when he looks he finds there's onl,
one more, for he hadn't stopped to fl
the magazine, so cautions him.
you're shootin' too low. Rails.
,, her.
"He raised her all right and caugh
Mr. Bruin in the snout What follow
;. ed thereafter was most too quick I.
| notice, for the poor bear let out ;
bawl, dropped off his limb into tn
midst of them ragin', tur'ble, seventy
, pun hounds, an Rugged 'em to death
| one after another, like he was doin
, system of health exercises. He tool
| EN- to his boosum as if he'd just go
back off long trip, then, droppin' tn
, last one, he made at that younge
son an put gold film in his leg
} Yes. sir; most chewed it off. H'Ane
/, lish let out a Siberian-wolf holler his
r self, an had to step in with tn
Ratchet and kill the brute though
!. was most dead from laughin'