The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-22
THE PALEOzO|C HUMOR
OF MR.. Fits
CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE

! vading twilight enveloped me.
81 found the shattered body and
sent it up. Then, as waited, my
| eyes, accustomed to the feeble hall
/ light, took In the weird beauty Of
| the cavern. | gazed into the opales-
cent walls and beheld the wonder
| nl striated Iaminations of the ice
| texture-like pale spirit ribbons. My
eyes sought the floor whereon |
t stood, and | felt the hair bristle on
my scalp. Beneath me lay the great
| dark bulk of huge body, hairy
and immense. Reflected light shonc
! into the impid depths and quick
ened every detail; the giant legs,
| the ivory tusks curving out into
the dimness of the walls the huge
prehensile trunk. Dazed by the eerie
sight, still noted details, and when
the rope came dangling down | left,
| feeling that | had Deheld sights
which human eyes should not have
Witnessed.
"I did not disclose my discovery.
With an assistant | returned and
chained the distance from the GREY
asse to the brow ui rae glacier.
The following month i spent in OBJ
servations of its rate or progress, es'
timaton of climatic changes and
/ other data, tending to show when
| the frozen carcass would reach the
moraine. My figures proved and
reproved, that the only perfect mann
moth would be forced out at the
foot of the Kayak on August 2Sth
of the thirteenth year Mr. Fits,
the Professor concluded, it is now
August 10th of that year, and |
have come for my mammoth
Before he was half through, |
knew it was scripture he spoke.
" Professor Pinecoffin, | said. ii
grieves me to annihilate thirteen
year-old expectations, but that mon
ster is mine at this minute
What, the o!d man screamed,
as if I'd killed his child.
Simply this. I've got a placer
location covering this ground. 1t
runs back three hundred and thirty
feet into the ice. I'm entitled to all
gold silver, ores, timber and other
things of value, appendant and ap-
purtenant thereto.
It's mine by discovery, he
foamed
Sure you discovered it, but you
didn't hold it. guess thirteen years
would constitute abandonment in
any court
He thought for a long time.
When did you locate?'
August 1st.
He grinned his triumph. dispose
YOU know you must record within
thirty days, or the location is void
If my mammoth is two days overdue
I'll have him yet
1T takes a blamed good man to
call the turn on the finish of a
! two-thousandyear go-as-you-please
within two days, and was five
hundred miles from a land office.
Let's be friends says, and
go halves on the brute; he's big
enough to go around.
I'VE waited for the remains till
! fall. Every morning we'd patrol
the ice, peering and strainng for
n sight of the visitor. The 2Sth
came and brought nothing. Septem-
ber toiled past and still we watch
ed
Il grew doubtful. and one morning
as we glared hungrily into the blue
green wall, l said: See here Phile.
did YOU ever see animals before
YOU went with the surveying party
What do you mean?'
Well, | remember once in Ju-
neau. Id come out of the Yukon
with a big cleanup. A fellow intro
duced a new brand of 'hootch.' and
very shortly | saw stranger things
than trapped Angora elephants.
Why, | remember one beast that
came regular He was a purple bug
in yellow trousers with green Gal
wya whiskers. He used to walk a
tight-rope of spaghetti running from
my bed to the door knob. singing
the Gotterdamerung backwards in
Chinook
This morning, we'd no more than
entered the cave when the Profes-
sor screeched like an airbrake
There it was all right. Away back,
shadowy, black and mysterious. Pine
coffin sat down on rock and cried, F,
while the drip of the ice water soak |
ed through his frock coat and |