| Show SPEAR goodenough GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM one experience with white mana mans weapon wa was enough for african native when mr wr montague the english traveler was in africa he be gave to a native an old gun and the fellow was delighted lie ile put in a small handful of powder and about a quarter of a newspaper on top of it and finally a ball and toen rammed the whole charge down then ha he do parted in the evening be he returned with his hl face battered and swollen wollen al moat roost beyond recognition what have you been doing akel asked the man n amazement the native sat 4 down on the ground and aid said borrow sorrow fully A little after noon I 1 found the th track of elands and I 1 followed it ua un til tit I 1 found them feeding I 1 crept up to one of them he ile waa was twenty yard yards away I 1 the barrel of the gen gna on t b tone stone placed tho the baft butt against my note directed the muzzle toward the eland and pulled the trig ger I 1 do not know hat happened for I 1 was blind and deaf for sow some time but when I 1 came to I 1 found mj self elf lying at the bottom of the gully the gun wa was beside me ml face was a an you now lee see it and the alanda bad V n away son of a white man it was very kind of you to give me k but it li Is too good a gun for too strong too powerful it nedi needs the wisdom of fl white man to ml ruts it take taki it bac farewells |
