| Show FLOYD GIBBO Adventurers Adventurers' Q Ci Cie II e T The Pit By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter YOU know boys and girls it isn't at all unusual for foran fora an tuner to run into an experience that leaves him d du dt barely able to stagger along home but Harry Goldin d 01 o N N. Y is one upon all those guys Harry was dazed mj and able to stagger before his adventure started After it its over he was a lot worse off It all happened in April 1899 1599 when Harry was Cuba fighting the Spanish-American Spanish war for tor Uncle Sam lie De wu vs 11 Seventh Regiment stationed In the field outside Plou Pinar std del fob things had quieted down to such ouch an extent that troopers win j record could get a n pass from the officer of the day to go Into lato hr 1011 a n few purchases and have ho what was widely known as a good tint Harry was one of the troopers trooper who had a good tarot fetor dont don't know how he managed to get It and I know he didn't deserve It because the first thing h he did when lit ht h town town town-he he and his hi buddy was buddy was to head for a saloon They had a n couple bottles of beer and then they drank loi raze white mule They ambled around the town taking In the sight Judge by Harry's Harrys and his pals pal's actions most of those sights vet bottom of a 11 glass A. 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L Bad Is-Bad Is Bad Business in Any Mans Man's Ann Army Finally it got to the point where they had to do their ting down because whenever er they got up on their feet the II in inand and wobbled around so fast that they couldn't get n R good look It d That went on until It became Just plain Impossible to ton tight sight or anything else Then all of a sudden ludden It dawned on that It was dark that dark that they had overstayed their leave leave and anil they had better get the heck out of town before the torpors corpo the guard came looking for them They lurched to their feet fed started walking toward the camp In three directions at aspBy asp anti By Dl the time they thel were half halt way wal there it was twice as all dart flatt they had started They couldn't see a afoot atoot foot ahead of them and anh having some trouble trying to keep a under foot them How now the got separated Harry doesn't know Ho lIe was walking along to ta IIi II i I I A Snarling Bear Was Pawing at Him In the Pit PIL all aU of a sudden he ho realized he was talking to himself He ne yells jeW le pal but he be got no answer On top of that It started to th h lightning lightning and and then to rain Harry went on alone Every Everl once In a while a flash b of s would Illuminate the sky and then he be could see where he be was war I third or fourth flash showed a dark object up ahead That Han Harr Ham would be his buddy lie He gave a whoop and started towards It the dark he could see it coming to meet him Just as 81 It rev ret lIarI stumbled and fell tell Harrys Harry's Pal Turned Out to Be a Big Black BeatHe Beat Bear He reached out and grabbed hold of his hll pal to help hi hin up again HI His pal had grown a thick coat of heavy fur furls II meantime but Harry had had too many tequilas tequila and agua back In town to notice Again he tumbled stumbled clutched hit his p pd pi support and both of them tumbled Into a a adeep deep pit It was the sort of a pit use they for tor garbage In Cuba Some SOB Harry that even though he be couldn't see sec The fall tall jarred too sore sense back Into luto him and for tor the first time he began to wonder pal had bad happened to grow that coat of ot fur tur He lIe didn't have hare han to It long A sudden flash of ot lightning lit up the pit That furry tur till tile his bis buddy at all It was a bear bear bear-a a huge black block snarling bearl bear I IFor For 1101 a minute Harry thought he was pipe-dreaming pipe the v M That bear must have come right out of one of ot those back In n town But Dut no The bear was on him now now had had him d mauling him like Ike the devil He lie couldn't dream those sharp tab state couldn't dream the bruises the bear gave him as he kicked hi bl him Harry Learns That Bears Dont Don't Fight Fair Fait The bear didn't fight fair It wa was the animal liever li H Hever Hi ever saw laW It wa was waa Jumping on him Harry could feel It I 8 And the brute would land on him Off hed he'd go And then Hed He'd land on him again What kind of a bear was tilt thill hI fought like a moose Another flash of lightning told the story Harry looked uptime up sp P time to see the bear pawing and clawing at the top of the pit Its lIe He lost his hold and landed on 00 Harry again That animal wasn't Jumping on him He De was falling on 00 Wa using Harry for tor a n springboard trying to get out of at the pit the last thing Harry rem remember remembers Then Bam Barn I again and be bl be The next thing Harry knew he woke wok up In the hospital friends were all standing around hi his hll cot He H. thought they'd to be b. with him at the end until end until he noticed that the they we w win laughing The Laugh Was on Harry Even if It Hurt And when they told me i bout It t Harry says saYI I had bad to tole II self elf The bear was one that had LaJ escaped from tram a n small circa wandered out of town It was Just about twice as scared as aJ MIn I But Harry Harrys he tried t to mill aon laugh didn't lilt long When hi hi cot hi hll grin faded away He wa was scratched from be head bead d b band J and had three broken rb ribs where the bear fell on en him want to make him mad now Just ask alk him about the time h. h hsi Sidney Franklin with old Bruin amid the rose rOle petals petal and nd I In of that refuse pit way down there In Cuba In 99 o c C 6 |
