Show TEDDY HAS HS A A IN I BOOZY BOB Denver News New Robert DeUker known knowl all al over the western wet r slope slop as a HBo Boozy Bob of Buzzard creek crek hunter bunter and tripper of the Plateau valley does doe not expect to enjoy ejoy another night of ot peaceful sleep until death teath itself shall mantle mante the terrible vis vhs ions that t nightly haunt His rude cabin in inthe Inthe I the mountains A fortnight ago Bob was s the te teman happiest man in Colorado Colordo He had sufficient suf cleat Cent stores store in his cabin cabia on n Buzzard creek south of Debeque to last las until spring As Asa a guide he h had earned ored from city hunters bunters enough money to to t keep k p his jug juS well wel stock stocked ed An occasional buck picked from the toe herd erd would not be misled mt ed by b the game wardens antI and would kep him fn In meat gme What more mort did the grizzled trapper need to tomake make bun hip happy J But now a roughly improvised Improvise sling car carries carrie carries ries rie Bob Bobs g crippled cripple arm his body Is Jar lac lacerated la orated with wih gashes and nd nightly night he starts start from a bed b of pain a hundred bur id times It I sen to light fight f ht to death in encounter with wih the largest and fiercest t mountain lion Hon that ever eyer bounded over Colorado Colordo mountains The wounded arm armand ar armand and ad the painful dreams are the result of Boozy Booey Bobs encounter with a mountain lion Hon ten days ago One day last week Boozy oozy Bob turn turned tur ed od 0 up in Debeque after many weeks ab benee enee H He brought in a pack pak of skins and after painting the little town a sun sunset sunset sunset set hue started out the tle following morn mor lug Ing In with a new jug of the best bet whisky the mountain town afforded By the time he reached his cabin on Buzzard creek he was just right for a brush with wih the fiercest animal that ever eyer walked on four legs It I was vias close cose to dusk how however however however ever so s In the dismal trappers cabin he spent tile te night making merry with the contents content of the new jug In the morn ing lag the tho celebration was renewed and in joyous spirits Bob shouldered his gun and set out after game gnand gme His Hi quest qu et was early ery rewarded for soon he struck the tracks of a a huge mountain lion lon but the size sze of the footprints did not deter the hilarious and an Intrepid hunter He followed the te trail tri for about a a mile mie when drowsiness overcame him hUn and sit asleep ting upon a ledge lege of rocks rock soon was fast fat I 0 0 s It I must have been bee several hours writes wie I a western slope ope correspondent who re reported reported ported the story stor before Bob awoke with witha a start start Not a dozen feet away crouch ing on on the te rock rok above him was the lion lon its is tall tail ti and ao preparing to spring There time to think In such moments second seem scent centuries centuri Every Ever encounter of a score Sor of years flashed I like lighting through the trappers fahed mind Seizing his hit knife knie intuitively from his belt he prepared to for his life just as the lion lon startled by the sudden udden move movement movement ment mont of the thE man nn sprang As s the two bodies bodie met the trapper struck the lion lon a I blow but it failed to roach reach reh a vital vial part and with a roar the beast planted his in the right arm of its is victim Bob said aid he thought it i was all al up with him the correspondent writes write but he is a plucky fellow and fought with wih as much fierceness as s the animal With his te Wih left hand he be again clutched the knife knie and struck another blow this time driving the blade to the lions lons vitals The two rolled over and down the rocks in deaths embrace the lion lon all al the time tearing at the trappers trapper buckskin clothes and lace lac lacerating e Ung his nis flesh Finally th the death deth grip was shaken off of and the hunter unter managed gIp to dreg himself away Tho correspondent relates that the wounded trapper crawled to his lite hl cabin after hours hout of painful exertion and fell fel exhausted on his rude bed be That That night a cowboy chann d al to pass and nd discovered the trapper trap er unconscious pS Quickly the limp body bod was lifted Into the saddle and the tha ride made to the nearest ranch at the th junction of Buzzard and Plateau creeks creek Before a doctor docor could arrive from front Collbran Bob had been revived and careful dressing of his wounds wounds and the administering ad m ng of powerful restoratives r revived the trapper so s that he could re I late his story atory But every ever night until the correspondent sent out Ms his story visions haunted the sleep sl ep of the te wounded man and the I crouching c form of the enraged lion lon ap pears nightly in his disturbed dreams a I |