The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-09

ores, timber ana otfler Things OF value,
zppendant and appurtenant thereto
| "Tt's mine by discovery he foamed.
"'Sure you discovered it, but you
didn't hold it l guess thirteen years
would constitute abandonment in any
court
'He thought for long time.
when did you locate|
August Ist.'
"He grinned his triumph. I s'pose
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 blamed good man to call
the turn on the. finish of two-thou-
sand-year go-as-you-please, within two
days, and l was FIVE hundred miles from
land Office .---
LETS be friends l says, and go
halves on the brute; he's big enough to
go around
we waited for the remains till fall.
Every morning we'd patrol the ice,
peering and straining for sight of the
visitor The 18th came and brought
nothing. September toiled past and
still We watched.
Il grew doubtful, and one morning
as we gIared hungrily into the blue
green wall. said: See here, Phile. did
you ever see animals before with the
surveying party?
What do you mean?'
well, l remember once in Juneau.
I'd come out of the Yukon with a big
cleanup. A fellow introduced a new
brand of 'hootch,' and very shortly I
saw stranger things than trapped An
CORA elephants. Why, l remember one
beast that came regular. He was a
purple bug in yellow trousers, with
green Galway whiskers. He used to
walk 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 than the Professor
screeched like an air-brake. There it
was all right Away back, shadowy,
black and mysterious. Pinecofhn sat
down on a rock and cried, while the
drip of the ice water soaked through
his frocS coat and thumped on his plug
hat"
Fits paused again, and his listeners
poured questions upon him.
Il fear I'm tedious" he said.
Indeed you're not" they assured
him. ITS quite the strangest thing"
Please continue"
I'VE got picks and shovels, and tun-
neled in to the carcass, then stopped out
a chamber in the ice.
at was there, just as Pinecofin had
said; grand and solemn in its hairy
massiveness, frozen as brittle as glass
The meat was apparently as sound as
the day it crashed through the wilder
ness miles above US, too We toiled in
the green half light till we'd stripped
the skin off in six-foot squares and
stored it outside.
"One night l fried piece OF the
meat unbeknownst to the Professor. He
ate it for bear meat and asked for more.
l feared it would start an uprising
when I quoted the age of his supper,
but he'd have stood anything from that
animal"
. Really, Mr.. Fits, you're not fooling
u.s." broke in Hardine.
) The distressed look of the narrator
was answer.
81 don't blame you" he said sadly.
but I'm rather sensitive and you'll par
don me if l don't finish"
They laid OBTAINING hands on hin
and he was forced back.
Mrs. Hatfield blighted the sceptic
9th a glance. Please continue, Mr..
Fits" she begged. ,
His looks were ELUSIVE of thanks, as
he resumed.
1T was so late now that knew win
ter would soon shut US in.
"'Piney,' says l, if this meat was in
Frisco, we could sell it for S. pound,
$1,000 a ton, or $4,000, outside of the
skin and bones. Imagine the fad we
could inaugurate by advertising Pre-
historic suppers for theater parties"
Wouldn't a menu be a hit with this:
Fresh 1900 B. c. Spring Mammoth
with Dumplings.'
"He seemed struck with the idea.
Now said l, you get back to
Seattle and charter cold storage boat,
while l guard the flesh
"a week after Cofie les it began to
snow.
In ten days the cave was drifted
over, and our pet began doing time
again. 1t was a terrible winter, cold
and bitter, and there was but little game
in the hills, which forced me to rustic
hard for grub. l didn't want to eat our
mammoth at S. pound, when could
kill fresh meat.
"As spring approached, l noted con-
staptty, ;ncreasino yoif sions IN the {