Show IOC STUDENT LIFE “There he is up there on the ledge The old fellow shot down upon us as fast as he could load his gun Wc started to send back our com- pliments with two rifles After five shots wc had not succeeded in hitting him “Watch me fix him’ said one of the lxns who was a dead shot Laying his ritle on a post he took deliberate aim and We all watched the “old fired man’ An instant after the report he jumped straight up into the air For a minute after he fell to the ground we could see nothing of him We thought we had certainly “fixed him” but to our surprise he picked himself up and with his ritle in one hand limped in the direction of his cabin as fast as lie could go We thrust our pistols in our belts and started off on the chase We easily found the place where he had been when we shot him and by following the drops of blood we were led to the cabin Three of us stationed ourselves around the cabin and the other two kicked in the door They hunted high and low but no trace of the old man could be seen “I bet he s nearby said my friend Jack We all separated and searched the entire lake and one by one returned and stood by an old hollow tree alxmt twenty feet from the cabin What had become of the old man puzzled us The blood spots led into the cabin but there were none to show that he had left it One of the partv suggested that he had come to the cabin and probably wrapped up his ‘ wound and tied again We were all looking at Jack who stood gazing at the tree as if lie was trying to figure something out At last he exclaimed “Say fellows I’ll bet the old duffer is in that hollow tree lie’s got a hole from the hut to the stump as sure’s I’m an inch high” We were ready to believe almost anything In a few minutes two o: the boys were throwing brands into the hollow trunk and the rest of us were in the hut ready for him if he should mysteriously appear We had waited but a short time when a box in the corner began to move and almost before wc knew it the old fellow was on the floor We were all dazed for a minute at seeing- one another But it was onlv fo- a mmute With a knile in each hand the old man lunged at Jack but our companion saw his chance and hit him on the head with the butt of a gun We soon had him bound fast with cords cut from his clothes We carried him out and while he was coming to we examined the passage from the cabin to the tree It was a small inclined tunnel just large enough for a man to go through on his hands and knees The opening was concealed bv a box which contained all kinds of scraps Two days after his capture we sent him down to the valley on a load of lumber lie must have served the rest of his days in jail for lie never returned to his old cabin among the trees —0 A P |