Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-03-25
MONTANA COWBOY WHO ROPES
POLAR BEARS lM FAR NORTH

time, OF course-they were doing. their
darndest to climb into the boat and chew
on anything in sight, preferably a man.
Once Cap'n Bob Il named him for Capn
Bob Bartlett, skipper OF our OUTFIT swiped
at me and ripped through my heavy leather
glove, giving me a nasty cut on the hand.
"Yet after we hauled them on board and
into the cages we made for them they
quieted down considerably. And before we
got back home they were almost tame.
Cap'n Bob got so he would eat out Of my
hand, and | believe our motion picture mar
got a closeup Of him licking my fingers.
However, | would never have tried that
stunt on 'Baffin Belle She didn't respond
to civilization nearly as kindly as her
brother did,"
at must have been pretty exciting" /
suggested, "lassoing from the deck. Of a
ship instead Of from a pony's back"
WELL said Carl Dunrud, 1.-THE l~assoing
part wasn't half as exciting as getting
shipwrecked. ! had never been to sea be-
fore, and / was eager to get all the ex-
p~erience I could; but ! confess l wasn't
looking forward to spending Ave days
including my thirty seventh birthday
marooned on the edge OF an fce-bound
island we'll up In the Arctic Circle.
sit happened like this. There was a fog,
and the schooner snagged her keel on a
rock while we were nosing off the coast of
Northumberland Island. The tide was in
when we hit, and when 1t went out, there
we stuck as fast as a cocklebur to a pony's
tail. For twenty-f0ur hours straight, we
manned the pumps, and bailed. And then,
after we had sort Of got used to the picture
of ourselves sticking around there until
somebody came In reach Of our wireless,
the tide rolled In strong, and the Nor
rissey' slipped off that rock as easy as you
please.
"But in the meantime, we had carried all
our stores ashore In the dory and had
walled up a sort OF shelter with them,
using q piece of canvas for a roof. Now
n IL 80 AnxN va 80 sac a..
charge of the stores, while the rest Of the
crew sailed of In search OF a place to put
in for repairs. Mr.. George Palmer Put
nam, the head of the expedition, and his
thirteen-year-old son, David, and | were
the ones left on shore.
go on the expedition. He and ] got to be
friends several years ago, when he was
hunting and sightseeing In the nelghbor-
hood Of Yellowstone Park. l used to take
him wiab me now and then when ! was
herding Elk and buffalo, and he had a fair
opportunity to zee me In action with a
rope. That's why he thought OF me when
he and the others who were getting up the
expedition decided that they wanted to
bring back some live specimens for the
Museum.
well, to get back in the saddle, as you
might say, the first thing we did after the
schooner got out Of sight was to turn to
and sleep round the clock. When we woke
up, 1t was July 28th, and my birthday.
Mr.. Putnam insisted that we must have a
birthday dinner, SO he and David went out
with their rifles and fetched In a fat ptar-
migan, which / baked with all the 1xings.
The only thing we lacked was candles for
the frosted cake that came out of q tim.
"Well, two days went by and no sign of
the schooner. Cap'n Bob Bartlett had told
us that he would be back as soon as he
was safe to go forward In. We were be-
ginning to be worried, when a couple of
Eskimos came along. We knew only one
word of their language and that was the
word for boat. By repeating this word a
good many times, and by acting charades
anti we we're plumb worn out, we finally
got it across to them that we we're waiting
for our ship.
but In the middle Of one of our best char
AIDES, in which David and | were bailing
and Mr.. Putnam was pumping, to show
what had happened to our vessel, one OF
the Eskimos almost shifted his expression,
and then he began to act! Pointing over a
mountain that stretched across the island,
he pumped his arms up and down to lndi-
cate that he knew all about 1t. In fact, he
made 1t clear to us that our ship was on
the other side OF the ridge.
Leaving David to hold the fort, Mr.. Put
nam and | set out, IT took us nearly two
hours to make the trip, but when we got
to the other coast, sure enough, we found
the schooner ready to put out. We jumped
aboard and sailed back to David. who was
sound asleep. The next day, we got our
stores aboard and headed for Uperniyik
again.
''There we're only two things about the
whole trip that disappointed me: One was
that | didn't get a chance to lasso a musk
OK, and the other was that ! didn't get
seasick. The boys on board said that
needn't expect to get upset by n little rough
weather at sea when l had been riding
bucking bronchos for twenty-odd years. ]
reckon they were right at that. I've been
riding critters OF one sort or another since
| was five years old"
MILDRED HARRINGTON.