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Show HE SAILS WITH THE EXPEDITION I don't know whether I llko tho ell-matci ell-matci of South Africa or not, but you can havo any kind of climate you are looking for, from tho Alaska kind to tho tropical kind, tho same day. I think It Is tho climate that makes all tho animals so mad. Ono minute a Hon or a tiger may bo lolling with his tonguo out, fighting files nnd scrntchlng fleas, and tho next mlnuto thero nro Icicles on his mustache, and ho has to crawl Into a bole In ,tho ground to keep from freezing. These natlvos beat mo. Thoy do not wear any clothes excopt a dolly, mado of bark or grass, over their loins, nnd from the dolly nbovo and below, their akin Is bare, and thoy ought to be arrested for disorderly conduct and exposure, but their skin Is thick and warty llko a rhinoceros, nnd when It freezes It looks llko pickled pigs' feet Ono man wo havo hired to holp capture cap-ture animals Is a native chief with CO wives, nnd ho has brought them all to camp with him, and wo havo to feed them, and it Is rumored tho women all havo their caps set for Pa, It tho husband dies, nnd Pa Is nfrald they will kill their old mnn and select Pa. to fill tho vacancy, that being tho unwritten law that a man's wives can select a husband. - Oce, if I had to be a stepson to nil those CO scnegamblans thnt look llko monkoys In tho face and when on dress pnrado liko oxen, I should die, or thoy would, If I .could find enough chloroform to go around. Well, Pa is trying his best to snvo tho life of that husband of tho CO wives nnd every tlmo ono of tho wives pats Pa on the back or chucks him under 'ho chin ho has a chill, and I know i nnd steering It Into tho gns bag, and Vio hnd got tho bag about half full, and It wns lying on the grass llko a big whale that has died at sea and floated ashore, and wo woro busy thinking of how wo would sail over tho voldt and havo our cowboy rope a few lions nnd choko them into submission, sub-mission, when I happened to look around towards tho Junglo, nnd thero were two tigers crnwllng through tho grass towards tho gas bag, and a lion walking right towards It as though ho wns saying to tho tlgors: "Ah, g'wan, I saw It first," and a rhinoceros wns rooting along llko n big hog, light towards us, I told Pa to look out, and when ho saw tho animals ho seemed to loso all appetite for lions and tigers in their wild state, for ho started fpr a troo and told mo to climb tip, too. Well, It took Pa qulto a whllo to get up on n limb, but ho and I wns right with him, and Pa looked at tho animals creeping up to tho gas bag, and ho said; "Dub, tho success of this expedition will bo settled set-tled right hero' if that lion drinks nny of tho gasoline." Well, I havo seen cats crawling nlong tho floor towards a mouse hole, and Btopplng and looking Innocent when tho mouse stuck his head out of tho holo, and then moving on ngnln when tho mouso disappeared, and thcBo tigers nctcd thnt way, stopping overy tlmo tho wind caused tho gas bag to flap on tho ground. The lion nctcd llko a big. St Dcrnard dog thnt Biuells something ahead that ho don't oxactly know what to mako of, but is going to find out, and tho rhinoceros rhinoc-eros Just rooted along .as though ho wns getting what ho wanted out of tho ground, and would be along after a When Pa Found the Snake Colled Up on His Blanket He Threw a Fit. ifi will do something despcinte If they jot after him In flocks. I suppose I ought not to have done t, but I told ono of tho wives who un-lorstaiidB un-lorstaiidB n littlo English thnt Pa iked to bo hugged and squeezed, and jtdd on tho girls' laps, so when we got through our work nt night and lt nround the camp flro they tako turns holding Pa on their laps, and ho thinks ono of the women broko ono of his ribs hugging him, 'causo they aro strong as giants, and havo a ter-rtblo ter-rtblo squeeze. I told one of them alio could make herself solid with Pa If she could get him n nlco long snnko, so she went oft Into tho Junglo alone nnd came back dragging a snako more than 20 feet long, nnd put lt in Pa's tent when he wns asloep, When Pa woke up In the morning nnd found the snako colled upon his blanket ho throw a fit nnd went to tho doctor nnd got some medicine tor chills nnd fover, and wo put tho snnko .Into a cago to soli to a memtgerlo. Trrtroht-ali-Vihlli ol U rt3" TvmTmTfT flrBt time wo tried It, though wo didn't make gas enough to moro than halt All It. and It wouldn't fly, but wo got somo tigers and a big lion, all right. Wo took tho airship out on nn open prairie and built a flro to make the gas for tho balloon, and Pa mado overy body stay away fiotn it except mo. and when wo got It inflated wo wofo to blow n horn, and tho peoplo wo wanted to go nlong could como, but the crowd of workers aud nogroos must stay back, bo as not to scare tho animals, and bo ready to bring cage up when wo blow the horn throe consecutive tlmos. Wo wt ro not looking nround much, but Just paying attention to our gas, while to Investigate that thing that was rising llko a big ant hill on tho prnlrlo and smelling llko a natural gas well. Finally the tigers got near enough to the gas bag with their claws, running their noses down Into the IioIcb whero tho gas was escaping and fairly drinking in tho gas. Their weight Bent the bag down to tho ground, and they woro In tho middle, Inhaling gas, and pretty soon the lion camo up and clawed a hole in tho gns bug and acted as though he was not going to let tho tigers havo all tho good stuff and pretty soon, we could see from up tho tree that they wcro being overcomo by tho fumes, and Pa said In about four minutes we would have a mess of animals chloroformed chloro-formed good nnd plenty, nnd wo would go down and hobblo thorn and hog-tie them llko they do cnttlo on tho ranches. ranch-es. What bothered us about going down tho tree was tho rhinoceros thnt was coming rooting nlong, but ntter n white he came up nnd smelted of the tho gasollno trickled out on tho ground ho laid down and rolled In it llko n big pig, and after he had got well soaked In gasollno ho rolled near tho fire, and in n minute he was all ablaze-and about tho seamiest rhinoceros rhino-ceros that over roamed the prairie. When tho Are began to scorch his hide ho lot out a bellow that could be heard a mile and started towards tho ramp on n gallop, looking llko a barn nflro, and Pa said now was the time to capture our sleeping anlmnls, bo wo shinned down the tree and found tho lion dead to tho world, mid W0 tied his feet together and put a bag over his head, nnd then climbed over the gna bag and found tho two tigers sleeping as awcotiy as babes, and I held their legs together white Pa tied all four legs bo tight they couldn t move a muscle, and then Pa told mo to blow tho horn for the cages to be sent out Gee, but I wns proud of that morning's morn-ing's work, two tigers and a Hon with no moro danger Han shooting cats on a back fenco with a bean snnppcr, nnd Pa and I shook hands nnd patted each other on tho back. I told Pa ho was a wonder, and that Mr. Hagen-bach Hagen-bach would probably mako him a general gen-eral In tho Prussian army, but Pn looked modest and said; "All it needs is bialn and sand to overcomo tho terrors ter-rors of the Junglo," nnd Just then wo saw tho cages coming across tho veldt nnd Pa said: "Now. when tho boyB come up with the cngos you put ono And Then Pa Told Me to Blow the Horn for the Cages to Be Sent Out. foot on tho lion nnd strike an attltudo llko a lion tamer, and I will play with tho tigers." ' When the cages came up I was on to my Job all right, and tho boys gavo mo threo cheers, and thoy nskoj whero Pa was, and I pointed to the center of tho gns bag and said Pa wns In .thero having a littlo fun with a mcsif of tigers, nnd when they wnlkcd over tho billowy gns bag they round Pa with ono of the tigers that had partly como to playing with him and chewing his pants, but they rescued res-cued Pa, and In a few minutes they had our three animals In tho cages, and wo started for camp, Pa walking behind tho cages with his coat over his arm. telling young Hngcnbnch tho confoundedest story about how ho subdued tho animals by Just hypnotizing hypnotiz-ing them, nnd I never said a word. A boy that will not stand up for his father is an idglt When wo got to camp the natives had all scattered to tho four winds. It seemed that when the fiery rhinoceros rhi-noceros camo towards them they thought the Great Spirit had sent fire to destroy them, nnd thoy took to tho Jungle, tho rhino after their, bellowing all kinds of cheering messages from tho Great Spirit. Along towards night they came to camp dragging a codked rhinoceros, and they turned In to eat it, and nil tbofe CO females brought nlco pieces of rhino, cooked by gasoline, to Pa, and wanted Pa to eat It, but Pa said ho was dieting, an It was Friday, anyway, and he never nto moat on Friday, Then we nil sat up all night, and everybody made speeches glorifying Pa as tho greatest hero that over camo to Africa, nnd thnt he had Stan-Icy Stan-Icy beaten a mile, and Pn blushed, and tho women held him In their laps and snld ho was the dearest thing ever. (Copyright. 1008. by W. O. Chapman.) (Copyright In Great Ilritaln.) |