The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-02-03

Every Jump.
when the goat butted him of of the
hay, and Pa closed the door, and
locked it and turned to Mr.. Hagenbach
and asked: How many of these YER
min do you want?" and he said: Now
that we were about it We had better
get the whole bunch" Pa said all
right. he was there after lions, and
he wanted to get the limit, SO they
signaled the camp for more cages, and
Pa said We had better have lunch
right there on the rock beside the air.
ship in the shade, while he prepared
to catch the rest of the lions.
Pa was attaching long rubber hose
10 the gas bag, and as he got it fas-
tened and reeled about fifty feet of
the hose down in the hole, Mr.. Ha-
genbach said: Say, old man, l don't
want to kick on any of your new in
ventiOns, bat what are you going to do
now?" and Pa said, as he turned a
faucet in the gas bag and let the gas
into Ne hose, Didn't you ever drown
gophers out of a hole by pouring water
in, until the gOpheTs came to the top
stranglins, and you put them in shot
bag and let them chew your fingers?
Well, l am going TO drown out big
gophers with gas, and in about Is
minutes after We have had lunch you
will see the dammest procession of
sneezing lions come up out of that hole
that ever were in captivity, and l want
all of you brave ducks to hold the
bags over the hole, and when you get
lion in bag tie the bag and roll
the beast over the rock, see?"
Well, they got the gunny sacks
ready and after we had lunch and the
gas was filling the hole good and
plenty, there was a lot of sneezins
and roaring down the hole, and Pa
said the medicine was working all
right, and pretty soon Pa turned off
the gas and unscrewed the hose, and
lcosened the ropes on the airship so
she sailed off across the veldt for q
block or so, and then the trouble be.
gan.
First big she lion came up with a
mess of cubs, and they held the bag
all right, but she went right through
then there was an explosion away
down in the bowels of the earth, from
the toe nails of some unmanicured
lion striking fire on flint stone, and
fire began to pour out of the hole, and
about nine singed lions of all sizes
came up out of the hole scared to
death, and the smell of burned hair
was awful
The lions began to cuff the men and
they stampeded down the rocks, leav-
ing Pa and two or three of us alone.
Pa and l seized couple of the baby
lions and started to run for camp, and
the lions took after us, and chased
us awhile, until Pa got out of wind,
when We climbed trees with the cubs,
and the lions rolled in the grass to put
out the fire, and then they took to
the jungle, and Pa said when ROose-
welt got to Africa and shot few
singed lions, he would think it was
new kind of beast.
Pa says he is going to move a cage
into the gorilla country, and call the
gorillas around him. learn their Ian
guage, get their confidence. and event
ually reform them and bring them to
realize that they are endowed with
certain inalienable rights, and teach
them white mans customs. and Pa
will do it or die trying, but l don't
like the idea as it seems dangerous
to Pa. Say, those gorillas are bigger
than John L. Sullivan, and they hug
like bears. Gee. but l want to see
gorillas hanging by their tails on trees,
and Pa says l may go with him.
Copyright. 1908, by W. G. IChapman)
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