The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
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THE honorable gentlemen VINO seek the
wild buffalo that frlshtens the iniseraplc
Ia aborers and their worthless laflihGS IAN
into two legs like n mans legs; Inere
we have Just seen the beast, wang. pa
ian, standing quietly In the mud Spt ne
ls nossessed OF eight deyl6, ana Inc
worthless people Will be glad when ne
Is sent TO reioin his ancestors. oI "hlch
he has none. He stands IN tnG ,I telc torN ,,,hN
Ing the silver piece which Aylwin tire"
''i.a .ayvback her up,' cried Hyde TO the en-
,,l,,enr ss the iltuc engine began once
more to snort. Then he added TO me aa-
mlraI: "We ought to do for the brute be-
fore the Germans arrive. ..
Yes said Aylwin provided that
Chinese scoundrel was telling the truth.
About the Sixth Shot.
All Fopg's pilot. however. appeared to
DO telling the truth, for when the launch
shot up the river and reached the place
where 1t forked there IN the 6Sep ,eiI IN 'fbe the
yoter q huge buffalo The paddyfelds
! about seemed deserted. although tnere
were many houses on the shore, Nutt,e III .
fSast GSr Sf %9 lanterns terms was vas preparing.
! The buffalo took no heed OF the launcn
as il drew near. The admiral kneellne
down with his rifle resting on inc gu,
vale. fired the first shot. 1t was a iong
shot but a good one. and struck the pnt ,
| falo sduarely on the side tIe beloved and
| GiVeI un0ef "a1hf, HUu u ''''N
more to finish him up. Bensons hnessrTSs
! itched as he fingered his rifle and so did
those Of Aylwin and Hyde put shoo,ins l
parties made up OF junior Objects and az ~
| admiral are not arranged on deH''Nia'o
The sixth shot was enough for the
buffalo He staggered TO the shore anc
fell TO rise no, more. The SHOTS 1hI ,h1
brought out all the people from tne
neighboring houses. who swarmed arounf
the dead buffalo. Shrlcks and CRIES re re.
sounded and women and children thre"
themselves weeping on the great carcass
Then the people In the boat knew tha
they had killed. not the Son-ot -thrE
Without the Eight Virtues. but the sol'
fortune OF a large family.
The launch was run ashore, and Ayl"ii
and Hyde. jumping out, emptied thei
pockets on the ground. The result wa
money enough 10 buy two wafer oul
faloes and the weeping and the walhnt
ceased. Behind them, though; they say
the two German launches going Tapidl,
IN the other fork OF the river. IGN
dawned upon Aylwin.
THAT scoundrel All ,Fong gave us Iais s
Information" he cried. THE mad but
falo Is on the other fork of the river
As they tumblcd into the launch Ben
son leaned over and pointed to the stcri
There rudclY scrawed In charcoal wa
the picture OF a turtle.
THAT story viii he told all over Tien
tsin that Chiuaman drew a turtle o
the stern OF British launch. SAID Ben
son, who knew something Of most things
including Cinnamon. "It Will go down !
Ah Fung's family as an honor, and ma
make him pirate admiral.
The two sailors were already scourin
the turtles portrait off the boats sterr
but there was no securing off the fac
that the British launch, in the sight
the Germans from Chao-Chau. had mad
n blunder of gigantic proportions. Ad
miral EIarbord's red face grew redde
and n sulphurous silence prevailed In IN
launch as she ran across the open wate