Show SPEAR GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM one experience with white mans weapon was enough for african native when mr montague the english traveler was in africa he gave to a native an old single gun and the fellow was delighted he put in a small email handful of powder and about a quarter or of a newspaper on top of it and finally a ball and then rammed the whole charge down then he de parted in the evening he returned with his face battered and swollen at al most beyond recognition what have you been doing asked the english man in amazement the native sat down on the ground and said sorrow fully A little after noon I 1 found the track of elands and I 1 followed it un ul til I 1 found them feeding I 1 crept up to one of them he was twenty yards away I 1 rested the barrel of the gun on a stone placed the abe butt against ray my nose directed the muzzle toward the eland and pulled the trig ger I 1 do not know what happened for I 1 was blind and deaf tor for some time but when I 1 came to I 1 found my self lying at the bottom of the gully the gun was beside me my face was as a you now see it 11 and the elands had sone gone away son of a white man it was very kind of you to give me a gun but it Is too good a gun tor for me too strong too powerful it needs the wisdom of a white man to rule rula it take it back farewell |