Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-04

game hunting ard things which am go
ing to quote.
Looks "a if, during the next year or
%. we sure are going TO have one big
gorge on blood and bones. garnished with
Jungle bea tiers G-stringed outfit carriers.
line peiIoWinRs OF dying siraffes-that is,
If girafes do bellow-the chipper-chap-
perings OF chmpanzees hiking from tree
10 tree. mia smatic vapors. German nat
uralistS slowly consumed by beacon
structors and all Liz" that. observed
Mr. Wilder WHO lad armful OF just
ont magazines strapped 10 the front of
his wheel. All Of the dime and fifteen
cent monthlies for March and April, as
well as the nickel and dime weeklies for
lot OF weeks past have printed Jungle
hunting articles, NTH d.. illustrations.
niayte YOU We noticed.
Strangely familiar. some Of these artl-
les perhaps YOU We noticed also
Maybe | read some Of them during some
previous incarnation. j dunno. But quite
= humble OF them listen 10 me like read
ing Bill NNe Or Artemus Ward over
again
Il employed certain little method Of
ny own 10 prove 10 my own satisfaction
t9st l. a read least few of these arti-
,les OF parts of them at any rate, on
previous occasions Coming to a certain
incident in one Of these jungle articles.
The opening lines would strike me as
copy that d scanned and become chum-
occasion quite while ago. Well. Id rest
the magazine on my lap, and close my
ewes. and then try 10 remember just
Row the story that Id read before had
finished. BY digging bit al my mem
DRY the wind-up of the yarn | had pre-
viousy read would straighten itself out.
Then Id pick up the magazine. read the
u cident through a set down Tor dead
new fresh stuff and | found that ! was
f!sht az 10 my memory. Of the thing in
al bout four Eases DIf II i've.
Kind Of fishy. toe, some OF The names
YrefiNed 81 affixed 10 some Of these jun
gle articles. Capt Montmorency How
ard dc Nsne-'Naj. Fitzherbert Maori
banks de Nere DE Peyster Waldo Won
Beckenheim. CT s. well, I'm not quot
!ng real names. YOU see, but they sound
Ju>t as natural 70 me- as some OF the
names pinned 10 these African hunting
stories that I've been reading lately
Sort of made me ina Sine--my refiec-
tons upon the ornamental oddness, TO
speak. Of some OF these names. | mean
fnat-Well. that the sure-enodgl hunters
III African jungles just didn't happen TO
he around and IN the job 10 build up a
S@ri Q: printers ink carnival in antici-
Latiou Of TeddN'S enjung!erncnt. so that
the magazine editor folks, being kind Of
Stampeded for stuff Lad 10 do the best
q ey could kind o. 70 put il THAT way.
Fat j. I've always understood that
lie sure-en"Gsh big game hunters We're
ruei- retiring. not 10 say hasAful chaps,
not al all addicted - Too business o.
talking writing abou; Their exploits.
7 remember reading. good many years
go an article on this subject written b.
-.uCTew aug FOR some British publica-
tor. In that article Mr.. Lang "a prett !
good authority in these matters. ! should
say seeing that lie * not only a man OF
letters but a swell mixerD-Mr. Lang
stated that even Tho names OF the great
est big game hunters in the world were
Absolutely unknown 70 the world in gen
eraf lie went on 10 say that they We're
hapS Who. ont ar sort Of innate
ruodesty. preferred To keep under cover;
THAT they couldn't he induced TO pat pen
10 paper 70 describe their hunting adj
ventures no matter low much money
was offered 10 them for this kind II stuff
md that il only With the greatest
difficulty that tney could me- cot 10 eres
mention tIc.r hunting stunts in social