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Show A Klgbt Advent'or F Tliroo Glrla n t California Road. Wo wore driving from Oakland oves the ridge that divides Alameda and Contra Costa connties, three girls bouud for a country dauco at Moraga val-ty, a little settlement on tho Contra Costa side. It was lato in January, and the night was pitch dark, but as the younfj rancher who drove know every inch of iho way wo were not afraid. Wo had made thoascontof thomouu iain and were driving down at a good pace when suddenly tho hordes stopped, reared ana then swerved to one side, overturning the rockaway and landing as all in tho mud on tho sido of the road. No ono vas hurt, and as wo picked pick-ed oursolves up, wondering in a dazed way what tho trouble was about, something some-thing loapod out o the bushes, over the backs of tho prostrate horses and lit in tho brush on tho lower side of the road. There was a fearful roar, and then wo law two great, green eyes glaring out of the darkness. Tho driver had succeeded in pullinp tho frightened horses to thoir feet and righting tho wagon. IIo ordered us ts get into our seats, and handing tha lines to tho girl on the front seat he told her to hang on for dear life. "It is a lion, and he'll jump in another an-other minute," said iho man. Then, as we sat spoechless from fright, tho rancher drew his revolver There was a scream unlike and more dreadful than anything I had ever heard. Then tho great boast rolled a few feet iu tho brush and was still. Aftor tho horses were quieted and we had regained our composuro sufficiently, wo jumped out of tho rockaway, and, with tho aid of matches, examined ouj gamo. It was a sploudid young Califor uia mountain lion, measuring about four feet in length. Wo three girls were nil very bravo when we found the beast was rer Uy dead, so wo helped, tht driver lift tho carcass into tho baok of tho wagon a'nd then contmuod our tritjj creating a groat sensation among the young rustics at tho dance when w? told of our adventure. To be sure, ws gavo tho driver credit for tho actual killing, kill-ing, but wereu't wo thoro when it happened, hap-pened, and lidn't wo keep quiet, instead in-stead of screaming as lots of girls ypuld havo dono? Now York Suu. |