The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-07-25

presently saw a wretch of Z
cuckoo, who led us ever so far GU
of our course by cuckooing anC
making faces at us, and then hop
ping away. Franz declared it must
be an enchanted princess, and sc
| thought | would rid it of it's
spell; but Fritz stopped me shoot
ing at it, and said it was a Hon
ey Indicator and that it was
leading us probably to a bees
Dyke, so we spared its life, and
presently, sure enough, it stopped
close by a bees nest in a hollow
tree. This was capital, we thought,
and, as we were in a great hurry
to taste the honey, | threw in a
lot of lighted lucifer matches, but
somehow they did not kill the
bees at all, but only made them
awfully angry, and they flew out
in a body and stung me all over.
| rushed to Storm and sprang on
his back, but, though / galloped
away for bare life, it was an age
before / got rid of the wretches,
and now my face is in a perfect
fever. | think / will get mother
to battle it for me-" and off
rushed the noisy boy, leaving
Fritz and me to see to the fawns
and examine the rabbits. With
these latter l determined to do
as Fritz proposed, namely. to col
onize Whale Island with them.
was all the more willing to do
this because l had been consid-
ering the adyisabiIity of establish
ing on that island a fortress to
which we might retreat in any
extreme danger, and where we
should be very thankful, in case
of such a retreat, to possess
means of obtaining a constant
supply of animal food.
Having ministered to the wants
Of the antelopes, l tried to inter-
est the boys in my discovery of
the block of tale, but just then
their mother summoned us to
dinner.
The principal dish in this meal
consisted of the bears paws-most
savory smelling delicacies, so
tempting that their close resem- {
blance to human hands, and even {
the roguish "Fee-fo-fum' from
Jack did not prevent a single s
member of the family from enjoy
ing them most heartily. T
Supper over, we lit our watch h
fire, retired to our tent, and slept
soundly. a
We had been working very dill [
the bears meat was 5
smoked, the fat melted down and 0
stored, and a large supply of BAN I
boos collected. But I wished to L
make yet another excursion, and L
at early dawn l aroused the boys. "
Fritz mounted the mule, I rode "
Lightfoot, Jack and Franz took p
heir usual steeds, and, with the Il
dogs, we galloped off-first o
visit the euphorbia to collect o
he gum, and then to discover oe
whether the ostrich had deserted
her eggs in the sand. "
Ernest watched us depart with d
,ut the slightest look or sigh OF n
'egret, and returned to the tent a.
assist his mother and study d
lis books. fl
Our steeds carried us down the cl
1reen Valley at a rapid rate, and al
We followed the direction we had hi
pursued on our former expedition. CT
We soon reached Turtle Marsh, 81
md then, filling our water-flasks, al
We arrived at the rising ground tt
where Fritz discovered the mount lie
ID Arabs. tie
AS Jack and Franz wanted a hi
l allowed them to press XII
onward, while Fritz and | visited al
he euphorbia trees. A quantity of
# the red gum had exuded from
he incisions | had made, and as tn
his had coagulated in the sun, hi
rolled it into little balls and st
tored it in a bamboo jar | had FIJI
'rought with me for the purpose. HI
AS we rode after the boys, who OF
some way ahead, Fritz re-
marked: hi
Did you not tell me that the al
uice Of that tree was poisonous, ed
why have you collected of