The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-11-29


vious, l amt follered the totterin' foot
steps of the law none too close. MOI
do intend to. simply draws out OF
the game fer spell and lets the young
ster have his fling. Then If he cant
make good I'll take the cards and finish
it for him.
ITS like the time was ranchin
with an Englishman up in Montana
This here party claimed the misfor-
tune of bein' younger son, whatever
that is. and is grubstaked to ranch
by his people back home. Havin' ac-
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 thing or two,
ard he does ii. am workin' his outfit
as foreman, and il don't take long to
show me that he's n good hearted fell
Ter in spite OF his ridin' boomers an
penuchle eyeglass. He amt never had
no actual experience, but he's got q
Henry Thompson Seton book that tells
him all about everything from field
mice to gorrillys.
We're troubled q heap with coyotes
them days. and finally this party sends
home for some Rooshian wolfhounds.
I'm fer pizenin' q sheep carcass, but he
says:
mo, no. me deah man; that's not
sportsmanlike Well hunt 'em-aye,
hunt 'em. Only fawncy the sport Wen
have ridin' to houndsy
1--WE will not says l. Il 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 but those
Uncle Toms Cabin dogs, however
and he had 'em imported clean from
Berkshire or Sibeery or thereabouts,
four of 'em, 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 q rain bari
downhill 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 spyglass.
They amt got no grit. What
makes you think they can fight? l
asked one day.
"'FightT says H'Anglish. My deah
man, they're full blooded. Cost seven
ty pun each. They're dreadful crea-
lures when they're reused. They'll
tear a wolf to pieces like q rag, kill
bears, anything. Oh, rully, perfectly
DREADFUL
well, it wasn't week later that he
went over to the east line with me to
mend barb wire. L 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 bluff
where he couldn't get away, he climb
ed cottonwood. H'Anglish was SIM
ply frothin' with excitement.
"'What misfortune! Neyther gun
NOR hounds
"T'll scratch his back and talk pref
ty to him. says l, while you run back
and get q Winchester and them fero-
cious bulldogs
"'Wolf hounds says he, with dig
nifty, full blooded, seventy pun each.
They'll rend the poor beast limb from
limb. 1 hate to do 1t, but it'll be good
practice for them
"'They may be good renders says
/, but don't forgit the gum
"Well, 1 throwed sticks at the critter
when he tried to unolimb the tree till
finally the boss got back with his
dogs. They set up an awful boiler
when they see the bear-first one
they'd ever smelled, reckon-and
the little Teller crawled up in some
forks and watched things, cautious,
while they leaped about, bayin' most
fierce and blood curdlin'.
"How you goin' to get him DOWN.
says 1.
"T'l shoot him in the lower jaw
says the Britisher, so he cawn't bite
the dogs. It'll give 'em cawnfidence.'
''He takes aim at Mr.. Bears chin
and misses it three times runnin', he's
that excited.
"'Settle down, HAnglish,' says l.
He amt got no double chins. How
many shells left in your gum
when he looks he finds there's only
one more, for he hadn't stopped to fill
the magazine, so l cautions him.
YOU'RE shootin' too low. Raise
her.
''He raised her all right and caught
Mr.. Bruin in the snout. What follow
ed thereafter was most too quick to
notice, for the poor bear let out
bawl, dropped off his limb into the
midst Of them ragin', tur'ble seventy
pun hounds an Rugged 'em to death,
one after another, like he was dom
system of health exercises. He took
EN- to his bosom as II. he'd just got
back off long trip, then, droppln' the
last one, he made at that younger son
an put n gold filing in his leg. Yes,
sir: most chewed IL Off. H'Anglish let
Dut Siberian wolf holler hisself, an
| had to step in with the ha>chet and
kill the brute, though was most dead
from laughin'.
That's how It is with me an Glen
lster," the old man concluded. when
lie gets tired experimentin' with this
rev law game of hIsn, I'll step In an
70 business on common sense basis"