| Show ya y a 40 IN iary S je in ranu Boj THE RING AND THE OSTRICHES it A 4 t bial 00 by FRANK RUSSELL as cop copyright right by Short alory atory pub co billy and me auz uz end huntin down here together in tat flat agonia for bout three year an had got a thun thundering thunder derin ln big lot ot of furs fura an skins hilly billy to me one day as how it ud be best to take em cm to and sali era em there as aa we couldn coulden t git halt half the of era em here an besides we oughter aughter have a bit of a spell anyway so BO I 1 says saya bueno well A ell go we hit the trail fur punta arenas where nearly all our furs wua and where wed have to ketch a boat nut autlin lin but the these secar car go tramp steamers in the straits then and the teller in the office there be as how no boat won t come for awhile so we put up at the gaucho hotel run by a Austri aka to wait malt till she happened along el 0 d been in this shack a couple 0 days an one evenin I 1 down doan la in the barroom bavin a quiet time by myself mi self when all of a sudden I 1 hears bears billy yelling ter me to come there quick well I 1 grabs my old 41 th inkin he a in serl seri a trouble and tears back to his loom sit down aez he 11 I 1 got a bally good beheye I 1 stowed away the gun disgusted and gave ini some sonie advice bout fright enin people with heart trouble which he took on nods lif look here b he e aez we were re goin golater ter make our forchen this trip shore well ilg up a couple 0 Inks baters and fill ero em with mith aw austrich strich eggs an all bout the time we wa git to frisco the them 11 be nearly ivady to hatch batch an w we k can sell bell em cm ache to these theae rich e spoils poi ts and debbe some to a circus or mon men agery thea the 11 fetch a fat price an wed oughter aughter git a pile 0 coin out u uv v em I 1 dill billy was as proper loco bout this scheme an kei heli tellia it over an over again an lailan an wh whack ackin ln the table with bs git and blannin inin how wed we d kaend the money til blamed blacked it if he dian didn t git me I 1 ouse loube I 1 up too an so I 1 said we dd give it a trial bein beans a it ud cost I 1 d never seen a Inky bater on dooty dooly before but bill he d been on a farm up in santa banta re fe there lots uv era em and then he a 9 a mighty handy chap with the tools Is bill so BO bet betwixt us both we rigged up a couple of big boxes and got some lamps offa off n a schooner hooner ac an put some rings in the boxes so a to hang bang em up in the boat with ropes kopea to keep em from in bad weather that took a couple 0 days an then we started out in camp with w ith the bosses an some cargo baskets with mool ool in em to fetch the eggs you know how plentiful is 13 austrich aw strich ebbs now in december well they a a lot more plentiful than days an ve got the bosses loaded in no time we got the eggs to punta arenas an and d filled up the Inky baters betwixt era em they held more n all over the outside of the boxes we vie painted in spanish and english handle with caie an delimit contents soon the old boat hove in sight she auz uz bout 6 5 tons when ever everything thing uz bill went lound 0 o the alist mate tellin hlin him bout our an all paid im ten tea dollars to let ua its put em up toi foi ard in an empty so we drove some big staples in III the bellin an 8 swung un 9 up tip the boxes ever thing coln so easy that me an I 1 abill dili wu bettin rettin wore more confident ln in the scheme evry linit A woman moman and two tuo kids was mas tho the only other pas engelis on blaid cause in them 1138 mighty few people vent ment up the west coast we the eggs ud hatch out bout a week after we got to frisco an aw I 1 reckon they would have too but when we got up tip heie bele to callao an loaded a bit of cargo a fedei fe let with ft a bunch of soldiers rome come abrald au ait said the plague had broken out an we gotter goiter stay in quarantine well the plague got an au we had to lie he there for weeks boto we got away an the cap in ut the boat wasn gasn t half as mad as me fin an bill cause we foresees that the aw a are going ter hatch on oil board an cause double after wo we left callao we A e couldn coulden t git later any other port til after a bunch of hod had nosed round fur a couple of das da a an finally the capin cap in aez that we d te be two months behind time when we got to frisco one mornin jest beto we got to panama bill had a look at tho the eggs an cornea comes back maddern pad dern a fresh sheared ram ile he sas the aw are comin we ailred the carpenter to make crates for em an it kep til im working overtime to keep up with the demand bill let me do said hes a proper burd finance eran an wu goin ter leep herd berd on em himself the cap in wua a bit sore bore bout this sudden cargo 0 live stock but bill div im a roll of to fox skins an a guanaco capa an some gome furs to the other officers so theys bill a friends then an the tha first mate told the cook to says save all the leavine leav lne an put em la a basket outside the galley where dill bill could get it handy to feed the chicks 41 j i q out 0 ahn th whole lot 0 eggs edaily hatched W I 1 atla avi awe had bad bout left an you boughter oughter seen ein grow the capin cap in promised prom sed mil bill he could turn era em out on deck ever sanday fui a run aroun an when bed he d open jbf th boxes they d be all over the deck ferard an aft in five dinits theys great hans bans to things burnt matches cigarette stumps buttons an bits of iron an they wu allus at nail heads beads an bolt bold an spots 0 paint one sat day bill let em loose and they theys s a round deck fot fo moren two hours when I 1 heals a yell from aft I 1 thought one of therill them kids with alth the woman had fell over boand so BO I 1 tears back along the deck sh off my cost coat an I 1 sees the woman hot tooted after a aws but tt it gets mixed up tip with the crowd ani and they all run ferard together I 1 asks asha tier her khut a the trouble an she begins to cry an says the aw austrich strich has done dona swall ered her dimin ring and that bill has bas got to cut eni em all open till he finds it I 1 told her I 1 d see dill and seo bee what he eez aez and started oft off and she fihe looks for the cap in she sets bets forth that she bhe left the ring on er toilet stand an went up on deck ter fer a walk when she cornea comes back the stand ln in her room an she dhruv im back bach upstairs an when she went to git the th ling it wua gone so BO she chases the th burd till they git mixed up together she reckons there a only one thing to do and that a to git a knife an examine em nil all inside till we gits the right one everybody knowel how bow tad bad the th wits bout lerin ln thin things gs chully shiny things so of course wo wa thought the ling was inside one of the th burds burda how flow much Is this here ring aez bill 1111 pay you aurit fur it out but tho tha woman eez it a present hom her iret husband an bad a dimin in it as big as her thumb all ana she wouldn t take a thousand dollars fur ur it well they jawed fur an hour till bill thinks thinka of a scheme to git gat the ring without slaughtering slaughter terin ln the burds so he be hustles round fur the doctor to X U 1 I hears a yell from AH aft make em cm sick but they mould rit dl di aulgo the ring that ere way we sees right oft off that this scheme is no good slid and bill bez suppose we leave em cm fur a few ais dias an debbe well have lough weather an they II 11 git seasick an ling fling up the ring ever bodt nache rally roared copt the woman she got in cioper oper I 1 led ed headed youre gittin light foolish fo ollah to dill them burds burda gotter be ba bisected right oft off dill bill sees seea there a else to do so BO we gits a knife each an begins the inn n ester gatlon gation the woman toilers boilers toi lers too al lowin abbes bhe s coln to watch that we look good I 1 us to do the killin an cause the skins wu tb a good bit an ano nill bill an the woman was goin ter do the pios pectin we worked all that day killin an ekin nin and alln an found ever thing in the world inside uv era em capt the ring we started again the next mornin and pretty soon had all the killed capt five an still no ring lit hi sight bout that time here comes them two belly bally little kids on the hot jump we found yer ring under the bed ommer rn one of em cm hollered well I 1 thought dill bill wils a goin agoan to massaker inas saker the whole crowd lie jumped vp up on a ferard hatch flung bli big hit avei overboard board an cussed for or 20 min its without taun breath and done don 4 proper war dance the whole time it if any yuu gangle logged legged shakes wants to champeon chani cham peen this here female let lea im to Is death an 00 I 1 II 11 mash his face like ilko a sailed per tater he howled out but everybody was ears under cover an in he be had the he boat to his himself self after while lie be got tired an set down but still a cuison so I 1 went out to im to pacify im dont take it so 0 o hard bard pin I 1 sex dejl we 11 be la frisco soon boon an then we can go back to patagonia onla fur another crop of aw austrich strIch eggs 1 and chrs wh e b beret for Z |
