Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

matter Of fact, We had been coming On them ak
AL times In grass like that. Their tracks were
everywhere
It gave me q queer, primitive feeling 70 be
marching along with my gun out. trying 20
guard my child and Miss williams, il need
used to go to church with much the same un-
easy feeling OF wariness, the tense nerves, and
the sense of the unreality Of it all. Only my
Pilgrim grandmothers had come to It because
Of the consciences Of my Pilgrim grandfathers.
while had no such good reason for being In
the middle Of Africa with q gun atilt We
had the chair and the mule with US, as well 40
Alice's hammock, and after &c got out Of the
deep grass we should have had an easy time q
1t. but for the escarpnnent that reared Hike q
wall before US, giving US Q back breaking climb
in the sun.
Motoring at home I often thumb q Riue
Book and read aloud to the driver, bear right
at church. pass cheese factory on left. =.
bear right with trolley" and now I logged
along on the muley, Alice and Miss williams i'm
their chairs behind me, scanning little paper
which directed, pass huts ON left. bear
right past spirit houses. opposite q clump
Of matete. turn OF right to bananas"
We came through the bananas to the village
by dark and found great state Of activity
little fires being built, green wood racks being
constructed, women hurrying in from the forest
with great loads Of flrewood on their heads a
knot of men came out and gave US the news,
while the women stared at us, the children
clasping their legs fearfully and peering out
from behind them at the strangers
WE had been so long at Malunga's that the
villagers had come to take us for granted
and we had forgotten what curiosities we were.
The white men must have caused bit of exc
element the day before, but we were really
unprecedented-t white women and a child.
It couldn't have surprised them that we wore
the same sort Of clothes that our men wore
for they wore the same sort of clothes their
men wore, but the amount of stuff which we
white folk had over nearly every inch of us
must have been a wonder.
Alice had her helmet of and her long yellow
curls made them chatter like monkeys They
were sure the curlS were q sort of ornament
which could be taken or We had to share the
honors with the muley for she was as strange
to them as we were, though they had had
look at her before, when the men first came
through. horse or donkey was utterly new
to these people. They did not even possess tae
native cattle that we found farther south CT
native goats The men were jubilant about tne
hunting, and said two elephants had been kilad
that day. thought they must be counting in
Harry's OF the day before but at any raIe
Arthur had certainly got his. That seemed
pretty good luck in itself, but when we wound
out OF the shadowy bananas, up the open hill
where the tents were pitched we found the
ousy anu breo anu cneeIy nunCefS pairing down
great slabs of elephant hide and skinning Que
elephant feet in the unending work of presery-
ing trophies, and we learned that it was all
true about the two elephants. Arthur had shot
one and Herbert the other. It had been spec
tacular day.
Arthur had got in from Malunga's at that
morning, and simultaneously dark gentleman
with filed teeth and o red sash had arrived in
great haste to say he had an elephant located
only little far from the village and would
they come.
They would. They did. though Herbert dis
liked the sound Of that word far. Same old.
stuff" he said. Hell walk us three hours and
show tracks-and then I'll murder him"
Herbert had been having what any one might
think was an ample amount of exercise. for ne
had hunted hard with every one OF MS. sineiv
and in groups. What he wanted now was Ro-
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