The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-24

halr ike an entomologtst. This Ian
is at our mercy
What dye mean?
He leaned over the table and
whispered, intense and eager.
Let's turn pirates, Wen hist
the black flag and ravage the coast
Ha! ha! You're plumb bug
says |. Turn pirate, Turn over
You're on your back; this here talkl
wake you up. What is there to rav.
age? Coast line and seaweed Fur.
thermore it amt reglar. We amt
built long and Low and rakish.
Thunder, who ever heard of stern.
wheeled pirates?'
There's Indians, he continues
and they've got furs and ivory and
trinkets'
Yes, and ten men to our one.
We'd finish so fast we'd bust up our
start. says |, though anything like
that appeals to me-
You're dead wrong This crew
! can win bloodless battles WatC h
this He climbed out on deck-'At.
t~ntion'' Roth animals riz up and
sa'utod. he handed each one a cap
stan bar and then put them through
reglar silent drill, topping on
with a parade around the deck. Cleo.
paTa dieEified and rapturous, llannl-
bal Quawelsome and ornery.
one Of my professional stunts.
says he. Wen run up to the beach
and blow the whistle, thatll raise
the Drlstles on the native population.
Then lay low aud send ont The
crew armed and spurred. If the sight
OF a cake-walking grizzly don't STAN
pede the resident voters, Hannibal
will. They've never seen an ape.
What dye think?'
Hannibal certainly did look like
the teNll, which was necessary with
his sunken eyes, white brows ana
hali-witted contortions
" It's n clnch,' says l.
we fitted Cleopatra out with a
sail cloth Jacket, and made some
white duck pants for her blushing
limbs. She looked real sporty. and
yacht-like till she sat in some grease
by the engine. Doc rigged up pirate
pants for Hannibal out of a red ta-
bic cloth, and tied a bread knife on
his belt They made a most solemn
and laughable pair as we rehearsed
all the next day.
About twenty miles up the coast
we roun9ed a point onto group OF I
isloos. When we spattered up to +
the veach every live thing swarmed .
10 the water; old and young. male .
...>. .~...---~, '---es-...- !
iirtier set OF humans | never saw /
,r smellcd-'twas an off-shore /
breeze. They gaped at us, distended .
with amazements and modest cor
'usions.
Doc ran the nose OF the Borealis .
onto the shingle, while we kept hid; |
hen as they gathered, he swung
onto the rope.
THE boat vomited tones, rising .
and rising, a hair at time, louder /
and awfuller, till the hills ratified
and the moss flew off in chunks; .
shrieking pandemonium that grad
ially died away into long sob.
"Squaws grabbeN their children
ana scurried into the brush while .
he men dried up into a bunch and .
oolied troubled. Then Cleopatra did .
the Palmer House out onto the front |
leck, resplendent in a white outing |
suit, her baggy little trousers look |
ng terrible shiftless and dirty from .
behind She stood up and went over .
he side onto the beach, with a .
in her forepaws. That |
oosened the men, and they shook .
The sand out of their 'mukluks,' paw
ing I'D the bank to the women, fright /
ened and panicky. They turned in ,
time to see hannibal leap into the |
arena, stripped and hairy, his bread
knife cleaning, and his face work !
ing. One look and we owned the /
own. When the last decrepit squaw
had scrambled over the sky line, We !
aid on the deck and wept.
1T was good fur season, an |
We found some prime skins, red
and white fox, beaver, and two
silver grays. We took about thir,y
Nairus tusks besides, and some bas'
iets Then with a dozen fresh sal
non for Cleopatra and pulled out.
When it came to actual robbery
ny morals wouldn't stand for 1t.
1T is tough TO hand EN- the