Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-12-17

Horn for the Cages to Be Sent Out.
the gasoline trickled out on the ground
he laid down and rolled in II like q
big pig. and after he had got well
soaked in gasoline he rolled near the
fire, and in q minute he was all
ablaze and about the scaredest rhino.
ceros that ever roamed the prairie.
When the fire began to scorch his
hide he let out a below that could
be heard q mile and started towards
the camp on a gallop. looking like o
barn afire, and Pa said now was the
time to capture our sleeping animals,
so we Skinned down the tree and found
the lion dead to the world, and we
tied his feet together and put a bag
over his head, and then climbed over
the gas bag and found the two tigers
sleeping as sweetly as babes, and ]
held their legs together while Pa tied
all four legs SO tight they couldn't
move a muscle, and then Pa told me
to blow the horn for the cages to be
sent out.
Gee, but was proud Of that morn
ing's work, two tigers and a lion with
no more danger than shooting cats
on a back fence with bean snapper,
and Pa and I shook hands and patted
each other on the back. told Pa he
was a wonder, and that Mr.. Hagen.
bach would probably make him a gen.
eral in the Prussian army, but Pa
looked modest and said: "All 1t needs
Is brain and sand to overcome the ter
rors Of the Jungle" and just then we
saw the cages coming across the veldt
and Pa said: Nov, when the boys
come up with the cages you put one
foot on the lion and strike an attitude
like lion tanner, and will play with
the tigers"
When the cages came up / was on
to my job all right, and the boys gave
me three cheers, and they asked
where Pa was, and l pointed to the
center Of the gas bag and said Pa
was in there having little fun with
a mess Of tigers, and when they
walked over the billowy gas bag they
found Pa with one of the tigers that
had partly come to playing with him
and chewing his pants, but they res
cued Pa, and in a few minutes they
had our three animals In the cages,
and we started for camp, Pa walking
behind the cages with his coat over
his arm. telling young Hagenbach the
confoundedest story about how he
subdued the animals by just hypnotic
ing them, and l never said word. A
boy that will not stand up for his
father is an idgit.
When we got to camp the natives
had all scattered to the four winds.
II seemed that when the fiery rhi-
noceros came towards them they
thought the Great Spirit had sent fire
to destroy them, and they took to the
Jungle, the rhino after them. believing
all kinds of cheering messages from
the Great Spirit.
Along towards night they came to
camp dragging a cooked rhinoceros.
and they turned in to eat It, and all
those 60 females brought nice pieces
Of rhino. cooked by gasoline, to Pa.
and wanted Pa to eat It, but Pa said
he was dieting, and It was Friday.
anyway. and he never ate meat on
Friday.
Then we all sat up all night, and
everybody made speeches clarifying
Pa as the greatest hero that ever
came to Africa, and that he had Stan
ley beaten a mile, and Pa blushed.
and the women held him in their laps
and said he was the dearest thing
ever.
Copyright. 1905. by W O. Chapmsa.)
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