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Show THE TRAMP WITH CONSUMPTION. A Strange Tale of His Thrilling Encounter Encoun-ter with the Old Rum. I was at my uncle's, near Niagara Falls, In Canada, and had hardly arrived when be said: "Now, nervy, you'll be wanderingaround more or less, and I want to caution you About an old ram I took up as an est raj the other week. He's down in the lot Where the gravel pit is, and just as sure as you give him a show he'll be tbe death ot you. I saw him knock a cow oil tier feet at one bang, and I wouldn't go into the lot tor toO." Next day I skirted the fences and found the old chap anxious for business. I didn't give him an opening, however, but Homebody Home-body else did. I was standing In the barn with uncle when he suddenly exclaimed: "Great JosephI but there's a tramp in the gravel pit lot! That ram will smash him to pulp iu two minutesl" He shouted, waved his bat and shouted again, but the tramp was a quarter of a mile away, and walking with his bead down. The ram was lying down iu the pit, and the yelling brought him out. Wa saw him scramble up the bank, and my uncle gasped out: "Git a hoss hitched up to go for the undertaker, un-dertaker, for that tramp won't be alive two minutes laterl" He was, though. The ram came at him en an angle, and he caught sight of the animal when about ten rods off. He wheeled to tbe right, stood still, and the ram got within ten feet, and then sailed through the air on a straight line to strike him. Next instant the tramp had him by the horns, aud with a twist and a jerk he broke his neck with a snap. He tarried to be sure that tbe ram was dead, and then came on, climbed the fence andsaid to us: "Gentlemen, you see before you a man who has been unfortunate. I have consumption, con-sumption, and am hardly able to stand. I want to get to a milder climate as soon as Dossible." New York Sun. |