The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-06-07
CHAPTER xIl.-contlnued.

OA0 ~AsoA &uVtAoI, Tue Keys W0re
welded together, end to end, in q mar
row ribbon Of steel. The thinnest
one, however, was not fastened to the
tip until 1t had been used to burn a
groove In the edge Of q rib, selected
from among the bones which Miss
Leslie had thrown out Of tho baobab
Tho last key was then fastened to the
others; the blade ground sharp, tenn
pered. and inserted in the groove.
Finally. pieces Of the keyring were fit-
ted In bands around the bone, through
notches cut in the ends Of the steel
blade. The result was bone-handled,
bone-backed knife, with = narrow cut
ting edge Of 1ine steel.
Long before II was finished Miss
Leslie had been forced away by the
requirements Of her own work. In
fact. Blake did not complete his task
until late in the afternoon. At the
end, he spent more than an hour
grinding the handle into shape. When
he came to show the completed knife
to Miss Leslie. he was fairly aglow with
justifiable pride.
"How's that for an Eskimo job?" he
demanded. Bunch OF keys and a
bone eh?''
You are certainly very ingenious,
Mr.. Blake!"
Milky! There's little Of the inventor
In my top piece-only some hustle
and good memory was up in
Alaska, you know. Saw a sight of
Eskimo work"
Still, 1t Is very skilfully DONE"
That may be- Look out for the
edge! It'd do to shave. No more
bamboo splinters for me-dull when
you hit piece of bone. I'm ready
now to skin rhinoceros"
III you can catch one!"
Guess We could find enough of
them around here, all right. But
We'll start In on some of Wins sheep
and CATTLE"
"Oh, do! One grows tired of eggs,
and all these sea-birds are SO tough
and f1shy. no matter how l cook them"
We'll sneak down to the pool, and
make try with the bows this eve
ming. I'll give odds, though, that we
draw blank. Wins got the aim, but
no drive: I've got the drive, but no
aim. Even II hit an antelope, l don't
think a bamboo pointed arrow would
bother him much"
Don't the savages kill game with.
out iron weapons?"
Sure: but q lot have Mint points.
and = lot Of others use poison. II
know that the Apaches and some of
those other southern Indians used to
dx their arrows with rattlesnake
poison"
How horrible!"
well. that depends on how you look
1t 1t. guess they thought guns more
horrible when they tackled the whites
Ind got the daylight let through EN-.
At any rate, they snapped arrows for
rffles mighty quick, and anyone who
knows Apaches will tell you 1t wasn't
because they thought bullets would
10 less damage"
Yet the thought of poison"
Yes; but the thought Of self-preser.
vAtion! Sooner than starve, I'd poison |
very animal In Africa-and 20 would
vou."
IL You put 1t in such horrible
way. One must consider others, ami
nails as we'll as people; and yet"
Survival of the f1ttest. I've read
'ome things, and I'm no fool, il do
Jay 1t myself. For instance, I'm the
Joss here, because I'm the fittest of
'ur crowd In this environment; but
Jack In what's called civilized parts.
where the law let's few shrewd fell
ows monopolize the means of produc-
ion. a man like your father"
mr.. Blake, 1t is not my fault II
'apa's position in the business
world"
Nor his. either-it's tho cussed sys- /
EN-! No; that's all right, Miss Jenny.
was only illustrating. Now, I take it,
9th you aud Win would like to get
id Of boss like me, II you could get
Id Of Africa at the same time. AS it
}. though, guess you'd rather have