The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-03
BowsER HUNTS THE HARE.
And Mrs. Bowser Gets Telephone
Reports.

Mr.. Rowser had started for the Office
at the usual hour the other morning
and had been gone 10 minutes. when he
about him. To Mrs. BOWser's query as
to what had happened to bring him
back he replied:
You can see that half an inch of
fresh snow fell last night. and l have
decided to take day off and go hunt
ing I've been waiting weeks for just
such day"
But what can you hunt?" was asked
Why, III go out and knock over
dozen rabbits anyhow. and perhaps I'll
have the luck to get a. wild turkey and
a fox This is what they call q. track
ing snow If I get on the trail of any
thing it can't escape me-
Il shouldn't think you'd want to go
ploWlng through the snow all day on
the chance of killing a rabbit, and no
one can tell what accident may befall
you. Better go to the market and buy
a rabbit for 10 cents.''
Il don't intend to plow, as you call
it, and there will be accident. I need
a day off to brace me up, and you know
l love hunting. I'll bet [ bring home
more game than we can eat in a week
It would have been useless for Mrs.
BOWser to make further opposition.
During the night Mr.. Bowser had
dreamed of Staying rabbits by the acre,
and there was no holding him back.
He had bacon for breakfast, but every
mouthful tasted like rabbit. He took
half an hour to get ready, and then
ed back over his shoulder to say:
Il shall probably be home about 4
O'Clock this afternoon, but il L m a cou-
pie of hours late don't worry. I may
run right into a drove of rabbits. and
if sc I shall stay until the last one is
dead,
Are you sure of yourself?' was
asked.
ssTICxr 10 va, ,,,ean9,,
well, you know. you once followed
the tracks of q rabbit all day. and it
turned ont to be a cat Do you think
you can tell the difference between the
tracks nOW?''
I never followed no cat-traclzs, and
you know it, exclaimed Mr.. Bowser as
he returned to the gate. This is just
like you. take a day off to supply our
larder with fresh meat and get a di-
version for myself, and you start in
to spoil it aili'
It wouldn't spoil your day for moth
ing, but you know that cat and raDpit
tracks are almost alike We had an
old cat once
Han your old cat. Do 1 look like
a man who is going out to hunt toms ?''
You may be going to hunt grizzly
bears
.Oh, I may, Yes. I may pick UP a
bear or two as go along. Also, lion
and tiger. 1 may also be gone three
or four days or a week Maybe, when
rabbits you won't feel quite SO funny"
With that he was off for good and
was soon out of sight Twenty minutes
later the telephone rang and a voice
asked:
rs this Mrs. Bowser?"
ct is
81 am Patrolman Darby. I was
standing on the corner a few minutes
ago when Mr.. Bowser came UP to
take the car. He had on rubber boots
and a fur cap and carried a gun. He
was muttering to himself about cat
| tracks, rabbits, bears and tigers, and
he looked wild eyed to me. Hope
there's nothing the matter
mo. He's just gone out to kill a
! few hundred rabbits
| The next report was from the con-
ductor of a suburban car. He said:
Mrs Bowser, your husband just
| left my car ten miles out. He claimed
to be going rabbit hunting, but looked
and talked so queer that some of the
/ passengers thought he was off his
head
The third report came from farm
er, who said:
81 am laid up in the house with one
boil on my leg and another on my
neck. Half an hour ago my wife came
dashing in from the kitchen to ex-
claim that there was a crazy man at
the door with a gun in his hands
ct limped out to see the man with
the gun.
Found him to be short and fat and
a hopeful expression of countenance-
''Said he had tracked rabbit to