Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-04-13 | Page 4 | Ing a Prickly Pear

I 1 a prickly rear ml first sad experience of the african prickly pear was gained on a visit to the market place of alters the fruit was banded to us politely peeled by the arab dealer and thus as we made acquaintance with its delightful coolness no suspicion of its evil qualities entered our minds A few days later adding the arient of a trespassing tres passing to the more legitimate pleasures of a country rumble we camo upon a well laden group of prickly pear bushes and could not resist alio temptation to help ourselves to somo of the fruit the result was concentrated essence of stinging net tie all at once to bs assailing hands lips and tongue and our skin wherever it had come in contact with the ill natured fruit was covered with a thick crop of minute bristly nai apparently growing from it and venomous and irritating to the our silk gloves transformed suddenly into miniature robes of had to be thrown away perfectly and the inadvertent use of our pocket handkerchiefs before we had fully realized the extent of our misfortune caused fresh agonies in which nose as well as lips participated for many a day did the retribution of that theft haunt us in the form of myriads of tiny stings home lite on an ostrich farm