The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
MAIWA'S REVENGE
ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE.
BY II. RIDER HAGGARD.
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Author of "she," "King So,omons Mines" Etc.

more.
/ II say, Quatermain,'' I said to him
when the beaters were up. ''do you
often do this sort of thing?''
, "Well," he answered, with dry
: smile, "the last time I had to load
three shots as quickly as that was at
rather larger game.
sit was at elephants.
81 killed the&l all three as dead as I
killed those woodcocks, but it very
nearly went the other way. 1 can tell
you.
81 mean they very nearly killed me-"
! Just at that moment the keeper came
! up.
! Did you happen to get one of them
there cocks, sir?" he said with the
; air of a man who did not in the least
expect an answer in the affirmative.
! "Well, yes, Jeffries," answered Qua
termain.
You will find one Of them by the
! hedge, and another about fifty yards
out by the plow there to the left
! The keeper had turned to go, looking
| Il little astonished, when Quatermain
! called him back.
/ "Stop a bit. Jeffries," he said.
, you see that pollard about one hun
: dred and forty yards off?
i "WeIl, there should be another wool
cock down in line with it, about
sixty PAGES out in the field"
! 'Well, if that beant the very smart
| est bit Of shooting" murmured Jeffries,
and departed.
After that we went home, and in due
! course Sir Henry Curtis and Cap
! tain Good turned up to dinner, the
! latter III the tightest and most orna-
| mental dress suit 1 ever saw.
| I remember that the waistcoat was
, adorned with five pink coral buttons.
! 1t was very pleasant dinner.
Old Quatermain was in excellent
humor. induced. 1 think, by the recol-
lection of his triumph over the doubt
| ing Jeffries.
Good. too, was full of anecdotes.
He told us the most miraculous story
| of how he once went shooting ibex in
! kashmir.
These ibex, according to Good, ne
| stalked early and late for four entire
! days.
At last, on the morning of the fifth
| day. he succeeded in getting within
range of the flock, which consisted of
a magnificent old ram. with horns so
long that 1 am afraid to mention their
/ measure, and five OF six females.
Good crawled upon his stomach, pain
fully taking shelter behind rocks, till
he was within two hundred yards;
then he drew fine bead upon the old
ram.
At this moment, however. a diver.
sion occurred.
Some wandering native of the hills
appeared upon a distant mountain top.
The females turned, and rushing over
Il rock vanished from Goods ken.
But the old ram took bolder course.
In front of him stretched a mighty
crevasse at least thirty feet in width.
He went at it with bound.
While he was in midair Good fired,
and killed him dead.
The ram turned complete somer-
sault in space: and fell in such fash
ion that his horns hooked themselves
upon big projection of the opposite
! cliffs.
There he hung until Good, after a
long and painful detour, gracefully
dropped a lasso over him and fshed
him UP.
This moving tale of wild adventure
was received with undeserved in
credulity.
"Well," said Good. "if you fellows
won't believe my story when 1 tell il
a perfectly true story, mind-perhaps
one. Of you will give us a better: I'm
not particular if it is true or not"
And he lapsed into dignified silence.
'Now, Quatermain," 1 said, don't
! let Good beat you; let's hear how you
killed those elephants you were talking
about this evening just after you shot
the woodcocks."
WELL" said Quatermain dryly, and
| with something like a twinkle in his
brown eyes. sit is very hard fortune
for a man TO have to follow on Good S
'spoor.'
Indeed, If it were not for that run.
| ming giraffe, which, US You will re.
member. Curtis, we saw Good bowl
over with Martini rife at three nun.
drei yards. I should almost have said
that this was On impossible tale"
Here Good looked up with an air Of
| Indignant innocence.
However, he went OH, rising, and
lighting his pipe, ''if you fellows like,
! / will spin you yarn"
was telling one of you the other
night about those three lions, ana how
the lioness finished my unfortunate te
"voorlooper' Jim Jim, the boy whom
we buried in the breadbag.
| Well. after that little experience I
thought that 1 would settle Down hit
So l went in for venture with nal
who, being of a speculative mind, hat
conceived the idea of running stor
at Pretoria upon strictly cash princi
| pies
The arrangement was that | shoult
find the capital and he the expert
! ence
Our partnership was not of a lon:
duration.
The Beers refused to pay cash. ant
at the end of four months my partner
had the capital and | had the expert
| ence.
After this l came to the conclusion
that storekeepiIg was not in my. line
and having four hundred pounds lef
l sent my boy Harry to Il school il
Natal, and buying an outfit with wha
remained of the money started upon {
big trip.
This time l determined to so farther
afield than 1 had ever been before. 81
I got a passage for few pounds in ;
trading brig that ran between Durbal
and Delagoa Bay.
From Delagoa Bay I marched in
land, accompanied by twenty porterS
with the idea of striking up north to