Show tad Q 9 M adventurers CLUB t HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF the furred terror by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter H HELLO ELLO orville EVERYBODY E gibbs of jackson heights N Y is distinguished adventurer and the tale he tells is one that win will make the hair creep up the back of your neck its a yarn that reminds me of the gladiatorial arenas of rome where they used to throw christians to the wolves and pit men in deadly combat against lions and bears from the german forests but it was neither a lion nor a wolf nor a bear that brought this package of thrills to orville gibbs and instead of a roman arena he ought fought it out in the living room of his own house I 1 dont know how it was in roman times but nowadays adventures like charity almost always begin at home all his life orville gibbs has been thrown into intimate contact with wild animals he ran away as a boy to join a circus started as a water carrier for the elephants and worked his way up until he was a full fledged trainer handling all sorts and species of wid beasts from the circus he drifted to hollywood and helped direct animal films while he was there he was given several monkeys which he kept in cages in back of his house he trained these monkeys and still there taken care of by his father none of them ever gave any trouble jack was a bright II monkey but theres always an exception orville moved east then went to south america bought another bunch of monkeys and shipped them to his home in new rochelle N Y he and his wife started to train the whole bunch but one of thern them jack was brighter than the others orville concentrated on him he would bring him into the house and have all sorts of tun fun with him but orvillee Or villes wife kept away from that monk he had bitten at her arm several times one evening orville brought jack into the house he had him on his lap playing with him in the usual manner when suddenly without warning jack emitted a ferocious screech and leaped for Or villes throat and that was the beginning of as horrible a battle as any roman arena ever saw As he came for me says orville 1 I threw my right arm to ward him off jacks teeth snapped shut and he broke practically every bone 0 h F 60 ell ile he crunched Or villes left wrist in my hand the hand started bleeding as if an artery had been severed I 1 was so stunned that I 1 could do little but shove him away and at that he made another screech and leaped again it looked bad for orville or ville 1 I threw up my left arm he crunched it at the wrist piercing the skin and breaking several bones then I 1 leaped to my feet just as he jumped at me again I 1 was dressed in riding clothes and the heavy boots stood me in good stead I 1 kicked at him savagely and it stopped him for a moment but he be bit clear through the boots several times that was just the start of a terrible fracas and a mighty bad start for orville there I 1 was he be says cornered by a wild monkey weighing thirty two pounds screeching horribly and leaping from chair to chair to table trying to get at me whenever he thought he had me he leaped at my throat and here I 1 was my hands useless bleeding like a stuck pig and growing weaker every minute orvillee Or villes wife had run from the room he shouted to her to pass him his rifle and cautiously she broke a pane from one of the french doors and pushed the weapon through to my horror says orville 1 I could not even pull the trigger I 1 passed the gun back through the broken pane to my wife telling her to cock it all this time dodging several savage rushes and leaps finally the gun came through cocked I 1 dont know to this day how I 1 ever succeeded in aiming it and pulling the trigger but if I 1 had placed the gun to his head and fired I 1 have madela made a more perfect shot right between his eyell he shot the maddened beast blood began to pour from the gaping hole in the monkeys S head but still to Or villes horror THE BEAST CAME ON AGAIN AND AGAIN frozen with terror he passed the gun out again for his wife to cock and again orville know how he ever managed to fire it this time the bullet caught the animal right through the eye and down lie he went and says orville down I 1 went too orvillee Or villes wife called the hospital the ambulance came and the orderlies found him lying on the floor covered with blood orvillee Or villes own doctor rushed to the hospital and says orville he have his glasses with him while I 1 lay groaning and bleeding they sent back for the glasses they gave me morphine and more morphine by the time the glasses did come the doc told me that I 1 was so well doped up that I 1 might as well go on the operating table without an an aesthetic 11 orville told him to go ahead it took them exactly one hour and a half and forty eight stitches to sew up the holes that animal had ha d made after that came pasteur injections his hands were reopened and the bones reset and now he says im back to work with a stiff right thumb and a pair fair of hands and wrists that will be weak for some time to come and nowadays orville has a motto no more monkeys copyright service |