Show F No 3 the tb C teddy Centers rs From Edited by E W Kemble m j In Camp on the Ragtime River Of ail the changeable climates OR on the theet f et f the map this th yanks yank NIb Ut the pastry A A W 1 f to 10 K will wUI suddenly M rise rille from wash b basin ln white whits bile you are four Ih rough your our ablutions and uh nie s you ou h hold ld fut fast to the towel rack w war ar are liable to wa wander wader d r off and when JM you t be gun lun romP corn tomes o Out lut t find yourself some IGme right ht or ten miles mile from camp campI f I 1 triad bathing In the river yesterday ye morning but have cone concluded tided that t it IB Is T i walked Balked out quite a Ii distant from t the shore n nand on owe e huge boulders and 1 myself on a k logI BI had hard hardly brg n 1 to tl wash when heD the log rolled 1 ly and anti opened lt Its Ita mouth I leaped for Cor fors CorI v tr r r nh when n it ft rose ro e up and opened s I Ju Ito Ita mouth so did all He tye other othen It wee was lt and que rd m for a time There Thim wa Ull g else to tf 40 fie so 80 I came ame back the other way I am I going OOl g to write an article on How to tell ten the rocks from the hippopotami This Thill mammal in to the most doclie docile of or all the African fungi It grows in the water almost entirely only coming on the land at intervals intervale so 50 that it ean can cango go back Into the water It lives JIves solely on watermelon watercress and watered silk flUk and Is 18 referred to by th the corporation coons coon as aa watered stock It has an open face ace Waterbury move movement m meat ment nt while eating It comes to the sur aur surface surface face once In eight weeks to get fresh air It have hae to think so 50 that tha It seldom is 18 troubled with water on the brain ou see I am learning th the habits habit ha of the Flora I mean Fauna from my own observations These fellows do no not study the wild life as I tie de and it does doe I not Dot make good reading Ne nature fak 1 I He threw me Into the air all I ing for or me I want facts I secured a fine tine specimen for fr the museum and the way I secured le him was quite re remarkable remarkable I spotted potted the particular lar larone one I wanted and taking my number numbs 1 tr TS Martini putty putt blower bower I pelted hIm for all I was worth orth This Ts T aroused him to a state of activity Thinking hie his torment tormentor or was in Jn the water he broke for tor th the shore I had him at my mercy so I 1 approached him uDo Do you know who wh I 1 Iam Iam am I bawled His lip Up quivered d an anI and tears came to his eyes he gazed at me m for fully fire fine minutes before tore he showed snowed the first sign of o recognition then he smiled As long as I live I will never neve forget torget that It began just under underneath neath his right ear ran down town the side sid of his cheek over his hIB right shoulder carr off to his Ms right tena camE up the middle of his hIB back lit on hi hl his loft oft Jaw Jw and pried plied open a 8 section of hit mushy masticator then raised the up upper upper per ver section of his countenance and the lid id was off and there embroidered HI un nearly early English letters on his hip tonsils I read reed WELCOME TR T R did lie Its know me I tell tail you such touching scenes Beenes as these cause mo me to brush away way many a tear I did not shoot him I had not the heart to al already ready he follows me around and purrs with Joy if I but look at him and last nIght Ight as s I was seated Mated by the camp amp campfire fire Ire he curled himself up In my lap and went to sleep We replenished our water bottles to today today today day with fresh pure liquid from a mineral spring I put the stoppers In Inand Inand Inand and had a perfectly corking time I Is 15 snapping everything that comes along and has hit upon a novel nove Idea He has strapped trapped one camera camara to his back so that when he Is pursued by some vicious brute he can take shots at him simply pressing the bulb as he extends himself over the veldt You are liable to spoil a plate If you wait walt until the charging rhino gets hi hl his corrugated spike within smelling dis 1118 distance distance tance of your our Today Toda I 1 had my first encounter with an an lIaR ant a monster such as 1 never Imagined inhabited the earths surface I can safely say now that there are no reporters within hearing distance that he measured nom from th baggage cheque on the tip of his trunk to the extreme southwestern portion P ot of othis othis his spinal attachment feet elephants feet mind you ou and his circumference bordering on the of o his corsage was at least and of ot an English ell oil Being an English ell 1 I suppose the H is dropped Let ma tell you all about It I was WIllS pounding out words just before dawn on my combination hand and foot type typewriter typewriter typewriter writer when my gun bearer came camo sprinting through the tall grass and shouted zorn I L of course had expected that I I f ll 1 f i r h l 1 l r i e ef t f r f ft i rp d t tSuch I Such touching scenes as s these such must be the case but I finished three hundred and sixty sl ty words word before I prepared for the worst I started on in all fours ours thinking I could make bet beter better better ter er time but I found It too slow 1 changed hanged and resolved to become an up upright upright right ight man My gun n bearers I must speak peak of them before I describe the th terrible ordeal through which I had to togo togo togo go Lumbago carries carrie my number GOO express rifle rille this is III for large game only and shoots a cordite Im rm not stringing you bullet as large as a Edam cheese ch Pepsin my Gum Arable Arabic boy carries my n number 30 This is 18 for garden gamen snails snail and other brands of sea food We Ve started In single file through the tall grass Now and then we caught a ascent ascent ascent scent but soon dropped it as liS we found i it was either plugged or had a hole in I it Breathless and nol noiseless elee we crept toward the spot where Lumbago had ha seen the brute I climbed upon the backs of my followers and peeled my eyes on a rising young hillock some two hundred yards away aW I discerned dl our quarry he stood as u If It made of stone Here I 1 go again atone stone quarry as we worked our way Into the open the huge beast caught sight of us and raising himself to his full height opened the upper half of his face and burst into a series of convulsive guffaws all the while pointing p directly kt t me with the thumb end of o his trunk I asked Pep Pepsin Pepsin Pepsin sin If it was usual for elephants l to laugh at hunters of note and ne lie said aid that he had never heard of it before However I challenged him wIth my number 30 but this seemed seamed only to tomake tomake make snake him laugh the more as he beck beckoned beckoned me to come nearer I tooK my express from Lumbago and now pre pra prepared pr pared to give him his death blow but before I could get the gun to my m should shoulder er the brute charged me grabbing m me with his trunk he threw me in the air airI I r landed on his ivories into the air airI I flew again and a U as I came down he I pinned me to the earth with his mighty tusks His hot breath amota my nun noa trite trill as he fairly yelled at me So youve come down here to shoot big bl name game P H have you Y Yu u make me laugh Dont DoRt you know that the bullets youre vur g were all made by the Steel Trust and Del dont you know koo all stuffed with mush Instead of bullets They put up a Job on you OU and youve youe had to come com all the way wa to Africa to get youre an easy one Theo Theu Now you know I could step on you just once and make you look like Uke n II rasp raspberry raspberry berry betry tart but I wont i want you to togo t togo go back with some sort of ot a record Ill 11 sell lell you my hide for a good gov government government government job somewhere In America And before I could reply he peeled from head to foot and stood before me adorned In III a close fitting union suit suito of o baby pl pink k You may think Im Fm working a skin akin game ga on Oft you 0 twit but t 1 I mean mn whet what I my say y Beast I fairly screeched at him What do you mean making sueh such a Il proposal to me m l Dont you yeu know Im Pm out of o polities politics and 1 I 1 even get you a Job ae a sec MC secondhand secondhand stamp tamp Ticker In a po t ce But he pleaded youre right cleat Kt to dear old 01 1 Bill Tart coolant h he jive give me something t o Q at the White house sprinkling i rr IT il ae on t or caddying on the golf links link We e i well together tO ther Im the re real ral i pre ore prea article a Theo Thea ee I am and if i yu u n i j be lieve lIev it look here ami is av a IP hI M rG aart ead his hta h huge hu fore le legs n apart and ani put out Dut hl hi his massive chest hest I van saw 11 i in it big b letters Jetters across the front i t Ii i r P f I arose from the l u c i on oat his hta assurance that be he would r n t me mf I picked up my rifles and taTted started to go 0 but he halted me Old Olt pal Ive saved ved your life What hat I said aid about the bullets WM wu all rot perfectly good it itIs ItIs itis Is not the tIN bullets Its It you TOUT a bum shot Mot You get t me a government Job because became there then was too tat much mue of at the akl skin about me mett if i Iy a small mall request and I want you to t tIt it before we part make e me an aR It I Iary ary member of the Ananias AIM club x a aft ft 1 t 4 A if n N Pr lJ sr d d N 1 Vol 41 J Snapshots Snap hots on the run |