The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20

laid one gun down before him and with the other ready for immediate work he wes.t down on one knee and waited.
 He waited an hour. two hours. Moth ing appeared. Then he remembered that the great lion slayers never went out without a goat or kid along to attract the beasts. Not having any goat. Tartarin set to work crying in a somewhat shaky voice, "Ba-a-ar
 He had hardly "ba-a-ed'' thrice be- fore gigantic black thing appeared in front of him. Up went his gun. Bang! Bang! and the deed was done.
 The lion raced off with a scream that told the hunters ,racticed eetr that 1t had been fatally wounded. He was too well versed in lion lore to at tempt the mad task of tracing his vic- tim before daylight. So he decided to spread his patent tent. But the ent proved to be of so very ingenious a construction that he could not open At last, fairly exhausted from strug !. giing with it he dashed tt down and went to sleep on the top of it, swear ing the favorite Tarasconian oath. ''Tar, rar, rar. rar;
 When the lion- slayer opened his eyes In the morning he rubbed them with surprise Instead of finding himself In A dc Tt he found himself in kitchen garden. His African plants of the night before became plain cabbages and beets In the light
 Nevertheless. he knew that lion had been there. On a cabbage he round the brute's blood. Bending to the trail. with his revolver ready, he followed slowly, and suddenly came upon his game. But disappointment awaited him. Ii was only a l!ttln donkey.
 Common men might have been dis couraged by sucl. first adventure. es- pecially If they had been beaten. as ne was, by the infuriated feinnle ot the slaughtered beast. in other 'ords. the peasant woman and collected soO francs tribute besides the beating. But Tartarin was not a common man.
 Having inquired and discovering that lions did not dwell in the suburbs of Algiers, but might be found In the south, he cried: "On to the South!
 Not at once you understand. There was A Prince of Montenegro who was of inc most charming affability. And in addition q Moorish lady of radiant beauty had succumbed to the hunters manly charms Between them they kept the hero of Tarascon in Algiers through two months of tnglorious Ian" guor. It also cost him money: Ihe Moorish lady needed much of 1t to bribe her dependents not to betray her to her high-born and fierce relatives and the prince was often short or cash, owing to the absence of mind natural with aristocrats.
 What could Tartarin do, what would the Tartarln of Tarascon do in such circumstances but tender his purse with a France! France! You do me proud"
 It was Barbassou. captain of the Zouave, who reused him from his un- manly luxury He came upon Tar tarin one day and showed Linn a Mar seilles newspaper in which a dispatch dated ''Tarascon" told of the sorrow there because nothing had been heard from him and that his admirers feared that he had succumbed to one of the monsters which he had set forth to hunt so intrepidly.
 At this Tartarln was ashamed of himself He would nave wept had he not been a hero. He leaped up and
 ''The lionl The Lion: Down with himr
 The next day saw Tartarin of TAr&s- con in a stage, numbering to the south, to the lions. to glory, perehance to death. At Blidah, little old gentle man. dry and wrinlied and formal. in a brown frock coat. the very picture of a village notary sot h. TArtarin's a