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A TALE OF THREE LIONS.
BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.
Most of you will huvo heard of Allan Qua
termain, who was one of tho party that dis
covered King Solomon’s mines some littlu
time ago, and who afterward came to live in
England near his friend, Sir Henry Curtis.
Ho has gone back to the wilderness now, as
I these old hunters almost invariably do, on
! one pretext or another. They cannot endure
civilization for very long, its noise and racket
1 and the omnipresence of broadclothod hu
i inanity proving more trying to their nerves
j than the dangers of the desert. I think that
j they feel lonely here, for it is a fact that is
j too little understood, though it has often
j been stated, that there is no loneliness like tho
i loneliness of crowds, especially to those who
: are unaccustomed to them.
“What is there in the world,” old Quater
main would say, “so desolate as to stand in
tho streets of a great city and listen to the
footsteps falling, falling, multitudinous as ,
tho rain, and wateh the white line of faces
! as they hurry past, you know not whence, j
i you know not. whither. They come and go,
their eyes meet yours with a cold stare, for
a moment their features are writtenon your
mind, and then they arc gone forever. You
! will never sec them again, they will never I
see you again: they come up out of the. un
known, and presently they once more van
ish into tho unknown, taking their secrets
with them. Yes, that is loneliness pure and
undofilcd; but to one who knows and loves
it, the wilderness is not lonely, because the
| spirit of nature is ever there to keep the
, wanderer company. Ho finds companions in
i the winds—the sunny streams bubble like
i nature's children at his feet; high above
him, in tho purple sunset, are dome's and
minarets and palaces such as no mortal man
hath built, in and out of whose flaming doors
■ the glorious angels of tho sun seem to move
1 continually. And there, too, is the wild
game following its feeding grounds in great
; armies, with the springbok .thrown out be
fore for skirmishers, then rank upon rank of
long faced blcsbuck marching and wheeling i
like infantry, and last, tho shining tr< \ <■
quagga and the fierce eyed, shaggy vihler I
i bf .. !,e to take the place of tho Cossack l:o. L
1 that hangs upon an army's flanks.
: “Oh, no,” ho would say, “the wilderness is !
j not lonely, for, my boy. remember that th'? !
I further you get from man the nearer you 1
| grow to God,” and, though this is a saying |
\ that might well bo disputed, it is one I am
I sure that anybody will easily understand
who has wateht 1 tho sun rise and s-_: on tho
j limitless, deserted plains, and seen the than
j der chariots of tho clouds roll in majesty 1
across the depths of unfathomable sky.
i Well, at any rato he went back again, and
1 now for many months I have heard nothing
j at all of him, and, to bo frank, I greatly
I doubt if anybody will ev- r bear of him again
I fear that tho wilderness that has for so
! many year:, been a mother to him will now
' also prove his grave and tho grave of those
I übo accompanied him, for the quest upon
■ which he and they started is a wild one in
. deed.
| But while he was in England for those
I years or so between his return from the suc
cessful discovery of tho wise king's buried
; treasures and the death of his only son, I saw
a great deal of old Allan Quatermain. I had
known him years before in Africa, and after
b ■ camo home, whenever I had nothing bet
ter to do, I used to run up to Yorkshire and
stay with him, and in this way I at one time
and another,'irai.. ... ....j of the incidents -d
bis and most curious some of them
were.
No one can pass all those years following
tho rough existence of an elephant hunter
without mooting with many strange adven
tures, and one way and another old Quater
main has certainly sc r n his share. Well,
the story that I am going to tell :
- yt u is one of the later of those ad
j ventures, though 1 forget tho exact year
which it happened. At any rate I know that
it was the only one of his trips upon which I
bo t ook his son Harry (who is since dead)
with him, and that Harry was then about 1-1.
And i.o-.y for the story, which I will repeat
os nearly os I can in the words in which
Hunter Quatermain told it to me one night
in tho old oak paneled vestibule of his house
in Yorkshire. W e were talking about gold
mining.
“Gild mining!” ho broke in. “Ah, yes; 1
once went gold mining at Pilgrim’s Kost in
the Tiansvaal, and it. was before that that
wo had business about Jim-Jim and the
lions. Do you know it? Well it is—or was—
one of the queerest little places you oversaw
Th » t< wn it... If was pitched in a stony valley
with mountains all about it, and in tho mid
dle < f such scenery as one does not often get
tho ' banco of seeing. Many and many is tho
tim-' that I have thrown down my pick and
shovel in disgust, clambered out of my claim
and walked a couple of miles or so to tho top
of some hill. Then I would lie down in the.
grass and look out over tho glorious stretch
of country—tho smiling valleys, tho great
mountains touched with gold—real gold of
th? sunset, and clothed in sweeping robe., of
bush, and stare into tho deuths of tho perfect
sky above; yes, and ihank* heaven I had g< t
av/ay from tho cursing and th eoarco j kes
of the mind’s, and the voices of tho. Do cu
Kafirs as they toiled in tho sun, the memory
of which is with mo yet. Well, for eomo
months I dug patiently at my claim till tho
I very sight of a pick er of a wash.ng trorc-h
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day I lamented my own folly in havi: •.
vested £BO3, which was about all that I wn'
worth nt tho time, in this g<-LI mining. Bui,
I like other better people before me, I L ' 1 I ccn
| bitten by the gold bug. and now had 1 t.i'..
: the consequences. I had bought a < la! ■. ■
I of which a man laid made a fortune—3.’s.(;J i
|or £O,OOO at least—os I thought, v» ry ti■ .p,
; that is, I Lad given him £*>C.‘ down fur i
it was p.ll that I had made by a rough
year’s elephant hunting beyond the Zam
: besi, and I sighed deeply and propheti
| cally when I saw my successful friend, who
! was a Yankee, swot p up the roll < f Standard
.•Lank notes with t: lordly air of u.
who i.i•. j- Lis ft i ..me a id cram t'.i i i into
hi-; bn- -•!« - pockets. • Well,’ 1 said t .
! tL- happy vendor—‘it is a magnificent ;: < -
I erty, and I only hope that my lut k will 1■; .
good as yours has been.’ Hci.milcd: to my
excited nerves it seemed that he sinih I om
inously, as ho answered me in it peculiar
Yankee drawl: ‘I guess, stranger, as I ain't
the one to make a man quarrel with Lis food,
more especial when there ain’t no more go
ing of tho rounds; and as for that thero
claim, well, she's been a good nigger to me;
i but between you and me, stranger, speaking
J man to man, now that there ain’t any filthy
! luccr between us to obsculate the feathe rs of
■ the truth, I guess she's about work 'd out!’
“I gasped; the fellow’s effrontery took my
j breath out of me.’ Only five minutes before
I he had been swearing by all bis gods—and
{ they appeared to bo numerous and mixed—
, that there were half a dozen fortunes left in
I the claim, and that ho was only giving it up
j because lie was downright weary of shovcl
i ing tho gold out.
! “ ‘Don’t look so vexed, stronger,’ went on
i my tormentor, ‘perhaps there is some rhino
i in tho old girl yet; any way you arc a down
; right good fellow, you are; therefore you
i will, I guess, have a real Al, old jam, plate
glass opportunity of working on the fecliugi
I of Fortuno. Any way it will l iing the
I muscle up on your arm, for tho s’uii is mi
i common stiff, and what is more, you will i.
; the course of a year earn a sight more tha:
I $2,000 in value of experience?
I ! “And he went just in time, Pu* in another
minute I should have gone for him, and 1
saw his face no more.
“Well, I set to work on tho old claim with
1 my boy Harry and half a do; n ITa fir. : tc
help me, which, seeing that I ha-j pu: nvacly
ali my worldly wealth into it. \as th 1 :
j I could do. And wo worked, mv •. ~d r
did work—early and Into wo mint a at
■ never a bit of gold did we s?c; no, not even
a nugget large enough to ? n scsri ; ;
out of. The American g. nth .'imi h-d c>
i cured it all and left us th- sv» e» >;gr.
I “For three months this went on, till at
last I paid avzay all, or very near all, that
was loft of our little capital in wages and
f' A'dforthe Kafirs and ourselves. When I
! tell you that Bcm r meal was sometimes as
; hi; h as £4 a l ag, you will understand that
it did not take long to run through our bank
i ing account.
“-kt last the crisis camo. On Saturday
night I had paid tho men as usual, and
bought a nniid of incalio meal at 60s. for
them to fid themselves with, and then I went
with my boy Harry and sat on tho edge of
; tho great hole that wo had dug in the hill .
' side, anti vh? h wo had in bitter mockery
. named Eldorado. There we sat in the moon- ;
I light with our foi t ban.', ing over the edge of
i tho claim, and were melancholy enough for
I anything. Presently I pulled out my purse. !
and emptied its contents into my hand, j
; There was a half s-overeign, two florins, nine- :
I pence in silver, no coppers—for copper prac- I
tie-ally does not circulate in South Africa, ;
which is one of tho things that make living ;
so dear there—in all exactly fourteen and
I nincponco.
“ ‘There, Harry my boy!’ I said, ‘that is
tho sum total of our world!y wealth; that
: holo has swallowed all tho rest.’
“ ‘By George,’ said Master Harry. 1 say,
father, you and I shall have to let ourselves
i out to work with tho Kafirs and live on
mealic pap,’ and he sniggered at his unpleas
; ant little joke.
“Du I was in no mood for jokng, for it is
not a merry thing to dig like anything for
months and be completely ruined in tho pro
cess, especially if you happen to dislike dig
ging, and consequently 1 resented Harry’s
lightheartedness.
“‘Be quiet, boy I’l said, raising my hand
as though to give him a cuff, with tho result
that the half sovereign slipped out of it and
fell into the gulf below.
“ ‘Oh, bother,’ said I, ‘it’s gone.’
“‘There, dad,’ said Harry, ‘that’s what
comes of letting your angry passions rise:
now wo are down to four and nine.’
“I made no answer to’ these words of wis
donf, but scrambled down the deep sides of
;ho claim, followed by Harry, to hunt for
my little all. Well, we hunted and we hunt
ed, but the moonlight is an uncertain thing
io look half scverc’gns by, and there
som ? loose :.«;il about it, for the Kafirs had
knocked off working at tho very spot a
j couple of hours before. I took a pick and
rak 1 av.r-y the clods of earth with it, in the
hope of finding tho coin, but all in vain. At
Lt<, in sl’.ccr annoyance, I struck tho sharp
pickax down into the soil, which was of a
very hard nature. To my astonishment it
sunk in right up to the heft.
“‘Why, Harry,’l said, ‘this ground must
have been disturbed!’
“ ‘I don’t think so, father,’ he answered,
but we will soon see,’ and he began to shovel
out tho soil with his hands. ‘Oh!’ ho said
presently, ‘it’s Qiily some old stones; tho pick
Las gone down between them. Look!’ And
ho began to pull at one of tho stones.
“ ‘I say, dad,’ ho said presently, almost in
a whisper, ‘it’s precious heavy; feel it;’ and
ho rose and gave me a round, brownish lump
about the size of a very largo apple, which
no was holding in both his hands. I took it
curiously and held it up to the light. It was
very heavy. Tho moonlight fell upon its
rough and filth encrusted surface, and as I
looked curious little thrills of excitement
began to pass through me. But I could not
bo sure.
“ ‘Give me your knife, Harry,’ I said.
“He did so; and resting the brown stono
on my knee I scratched at its surface. Great
heavens, it was soft!
“Another second and the secret was out;
we bad. found a great nugget of pure gold,
four pounds cf it or more. ‘lt's gold, lad,’ I
said, ‘it’s gold, lad, or I’m a Dutchman.’
“Harry, with his eyes starting out of his
head, glared down at the long gleaming yel
low scratch that I had made upon the virgin
metal, and then burst out into yell upon yell
of exultation, that went ringing away across
| th • silent claims like the shrieks of somebody
being murdered.
“ ‘Bo quiet,’ I said, ‘do you want every
thief on the field after you?’
“Scarcely were the words out of my month
when I heard a si -althy footstep approach
ing. I promptly put the big nugget down
and sat on it, and uncommonly hard it was,
and as I did co I saw a lean, dark face poked
over tho edgo of tho claim and a pair of
beady eyes searching us out. I knew the
face. It beloin;; dto a man of very bad char
acter known a:; Handspike Tom, who had, I
understood, been so named at the diamond
fields because he had murdered his mate with
a handspike. He was now, no doubt, prowl- !
ing about like a human hyena to see what he I
could steal.
“ ‘ls that you, ’untcr Quatermain?’ he said. '
“ ‘Yes, it's I, Mi*. Tom,’ I answered po
litely. I
“ ‘And what might ali that there yelling J
be?' he ashed. ‘I was walking along, n-tak- '
ing of th.' evening air an ! r.-thinking on the
stars, when I 'cars ’owl after ’owl.’
“•Well. Mr. Tom,’ I answered, ‘that is not
to be wondered, at, r: < hig that, like voursclf,
they are nocturnal birds.’
“‘’Owl after ’owl!' he repeated sternly,
taking no notice of my mt -rpretation, ‘and 1
.. .nd I I stena
again and thinks, “No, it ain't; that’owl is j
tho ’owl h eul i; om one’s I i and
got Lis fingers into a gummy yelk rpot, I'll |
swear, and off is’cad in tho sucking
of them.” Now, ’untcr Quatermain, is I j
right? Is it nuggets? ()h, lor’’ and ho
smacked his lips audibly—‘gr.-at big yellow |
t . • >ys—is it them that you hav just been and .
‘ tumbled across f
“ ‘No,’ said I boldly, ‘it isn’t’—the cruel j
gleam in his black eyes altogether ovcrcom- I
ing my aversion to tho untruAh, for I knew I
that if he once found out what it was that I J
was sitting on—and, by the way, I have
heard of rolling in gold being spoken of as a
pleasant procc-s, l ut I certainly do not rec
ommend anybody who value-; comfort to try
sitting on it—l should run a very good chance
of being ‘handspiked' before tho night v.a;
over.
“ ‘if you want to know what it was, Mr.
Tom,’ I went on, with politest air, although
in ng iy from the nugget underneath—for I
hold it al ways best to be polite to a man who
is eu !■ :dy wi-'.’i a 1 and piho—hny boy and I
, La- ' i . I a slight dincrenco of opinion, and I
wn.; eal<ircing my view of tho matter upon
him: that was all?
“ ‘Yes, Mr. Tom,’ putin Harry, beginning
to v.\ t’/., fc.r Hurry was a smart boy, and saw
the difficulty we were in, ‘that was it—l hal
loed because father beat- me?
“‘Well, now, did yer, my dear boy; did
yer? Well, all I coji say is that a played out
eld claim is a wonderfully queer sort of piaco
to come to for to argifyat 10o’clock of night,
and what’s more, my sweet youth, if ever 1
should ’avo the argifying of yer’—and hf
leered unpleasantly at Harry—‘yer won’t
’oil r in such a jolly sort o’way. And now
I'll be saying good night, for I don’t like dis
turbing of a family party’,. No, I ain't that
sort of a man, I ain’t. Good night to yer, |
'untcr Quatermain; good night to yer, my ;
c.rgili -d young one,’ and Mr. Tom turned -
.• way disappointed, and prowled off else- i
wk like a Luman jackal, to see what he ;
could 11;- vo or kill.
“ -Thank goodness!’ I said, as I slipped of? j
p of gold. ‘N >w, tl en, do you get ,
up, Harry, and see if that consummate vil- |
lain Im : gone? Harry did so, and reported ;
that ho had vanished toward Pilgrims’ Rest, i
and th-‘ii wo set to work, and very carefully, I
but trembling with excitement, with our |
lia.r Is hollowed out all tho space of grounc '
into which Iliad struck the pick. Yes, as 1
had hoix-d, there was a regular nest of nug- |
gets, twelve in all. running from the size of i
a hazelnut to that of a lien’s egg, though of
course the fir.-1 one was much larger than j
that. How they all camo there nobody can !
say: it was one of those extraordinary}
freaks, with ft Ties of which, at any rate, all I
• -op! H<-<r..- v. ‘ ‘i mmvial gold mining .
will bo famlt turned out afterward
1 £ tbo • ri'-an v? ;•» had sold me theclaii .
ln:l in tho :mmc- v y made his pile—a much
lar:r-r tm ■ th a •»’:!’/. by the way—out cf a
v.i.ho.r, color, after which he (■;.?
“At any rate, there the nugeyts were, to
tho value, as it turned out afterward, of
about £1,250, so that after all I took out cf
that bole £450 mere than I put into it. AVe
got them all out and wrapped them up in a
handkerchief, and then fearing to carry
home so much treasure, especially as we
; knew that Handspike Tom was on tho f.rowl
made up our minds to pass the night where
wo were—a necessity which, disagreeable as
it was, was wonderfully sweetened by th*
presence of that handkerchief full of virgin
gold, which reffresented the interest of my
I lost half sovereign.
“Slowly the night wore away, for with.the
fear of Handspike Tom before my eyes I did
not dare to go to sleep, and at last tho dawn
came blushing down the somber ways of
night. I got up and watched its ] crfect
; growth, till it opened like a vast celestial
flower upon the eastern sky, and th.-' sun
beams began to spring in splendor from
mountain top to mountaintop. I watched it,
and as I did so it flashed upon me, with a ;
complete conviction that I had notf.lt be
fore, that I had had enough gold mining to
last me the rest of my natural life, and I then
and there made up my mind to clc .r out
of Pilgrims’ Rest and go and shoot buf
falo toward Delagoa bay. Then I turncsl,
took tho pick and shovel, and, although it i
was a Sunday morning, woke up Harry and
set to work to see if there were any r;oro
nuggets about. As I expected, there wai
none. What we had got had lain to gather ;
in a little pocket filled with soil that felt I
quite different from tho stiff stuff round
and outside the pocket. Thero was not i
another trace of gold. Os com se, it i possi- |
bio that there were more pockets somewhere :
about, but all I havo to say is I made up my
mind that, whoever found them, I should not;
and, as a matter of fact, I havo since heard
that that claim has been tho ruin of Iwo or
t hree people, as it very nearly was the ruin
of me.
“ ‘Harry,’ I said presently, ‘I am going
away this week toward Delagoa to shoot buf
falo. Shall I take yoU with me or send you
down to Durban?'
“‘Oh, take mo with you, father,’ begged
Harry, ‘I want to kill a buffalo?
“ ‘And supposing that tho buffalo kills you
instead?’ I asked.
•‘ ‘Oh, never mind.’ ho said, gayly, ‘there
are lots more where I camo from?
“I rebuked him for his flippancy, but in
tho cud I consented to take him.”
CHAPTER 11.
“Something over a fortnight had passed
since tho night when I lost half jx sow reign
and found £1,250 in looking for it, and in
stead of that horrid holo, for which, after all,
El Dorado was scarcely a misuomer, a very
different scene stretched away before r.s clad
in the silver robe of the moonlight. We were
camped—Harry and I, two Kafirs, a ; -retch
cart and six oxen—on the swelling fid.? cf a
great wave of bush clad land. Just where
we made our camp, however, tho bush was
very sparse and only grow about in (.lumps,
while here and there were single flat topped
mimosa trees. To our right a little st ream,
which had cut a deep channel for itself in tho
bosom of the slope, flowed musically on be
tween banks green with maidenhair, wild
asparagus and many beautiful grasst ;. Tha
bed rock ht ro was red granite, and i i the j
course of centuries of patient wash: ; tho ;
water had hollowed out some of tl: Inigo i
slabs in it.s path into great troughs an i cups, ;
and these we used for bathing placeNo •
Roman lady, with her baths of porphyry er
alabaster, could have had a more <!• .<-ioiu
spot to lave herself than we had within fifty
yards of our skerm’or rough inclo: ::i’e of
mimosa thorn that wo bad dragged together
round our cart to protect us from the:.. uicks
of lions. Thero were several of these about,
as I knew from their spoor, though v■? had
neither heard nor seen them,
“It was a little nook where tho eddy of tho
stream had washed away a mass of sc 1, and
on the edge of it there grow a most be . Jiful
old mimosa thorn. Beneath the thorn was a
large smooth slab of granite friny; I all
round with maidenhair and other fern that
sloped gently down to a pool of tho cl?':rest
sparkling water, which lay in a bowl of
granite about ten feet wide by five feet deep
in the center. Hero to this slab we went
every morning to bathe, and that delightful
bath is among the most pleasant of my limit
ing reminiscences, as it is also for reasons
that will presently appear among th? most
painful.
j “It was a lovely night and Harry mid I
• sat thero to tho windward of the fro, at
j which tho two Kafirs were busily employed
I in cooking some impala steaks off r buck
which Harry, to his groat joy, had sir 1 that
! morning, and were as perfectly contented
with ourselves and the world at large two
| people could possibly bo. The night wasbeau
! tiful; it would require somebody with more
! words on tho tip of their tongue than I havo
. to properly describe tho chastened niaje- ty of
those moonlit wilds. Away forever an i for
evcr, away to the mysterious north, roll’d the
great bush ocean over which the rilenco
brooded. There beneath us, a mile cr moro
to the right, ran tho wide Oliphant and
mirror like flashed back tho moon, whoso
silver sjx?ars were shivered on its breas t and
then tossed in twisted lines of light far
i and wide about tho mountains and the ; lain,
i Down upon the river banks grew great tim
ber trees that, throhgh the stillness, f einted
| solemnly to heaven, and the beauty « f tho
I night lay upon them like a cloud. Ilvcry
| where was silence—silence in tho s' arred
! depths, silence on the fair bosom of thoslccp
! ing earth. Now, if ever, great thoughts
. m jht rise in a man’s mind, and for a spaca
he might loose his littleness in the scn:;«' that
he partook of the pure immensity abor.L him.
j Almost might he seem to see the spirit of tho
heavens, girdled round with stai*s, ; arming
down in the dead quiet to look, now tt tho
night hod covered up her sins, upon th? loop
ing face of l.is lost bride, the earth Almost
might he hoar tho echoes of angelic voices, as
th- 1 spirits poisQjlon bent and rushing pinions
swept onward fdbm universe to universe;
•ind dis 4 i-.iy ’ish/no white fingers of the wind
playing in the tresses of tho trees.
“Hark! what was that?”
“Fro:n far away down by tho river there
come.; a mighty rolling sound, then another
and another. It is tho lion seeking his meat.
“I saw Ilarry shiver and turn a little pale.
He was a plucky boy enough, but tho roar of
a lion for the first time in the solemn bush
veldt at night is apt to shake the nerves of
any lad.
“‘Lions, my boy,’l said; ‘they afe hunt
ing down by tho river there; but I don’t
think that you need make yourself uneasy.
Wo havo been here three nights now and if
they wero going to pay us a visit I: ’.ould
think that they would have dono so Ixifore
this. However, we will make up the fir?.’
‘“Here, Pharaoh, do you and Jim-Jim get
soma moro wood before we go to sleep, else
tho cats will bo purring round before morn
ing?
“Pharaoh, a great brawny Swazi, who
! had boon working for me nt Pilgrim’s Rest,
laughed, rose and stretched himself, and
then calling to Jim-Jim to bring tho ax
! and a rcim, started off in tho moonlight
I toward a clump of sugar bush, where wo cut
‘ our fuel from some dead trees. He was a
fine fellow in his way, was Pharaoh, end 1
i think that he had been named Pharaoh be-
■ cause lie had an Egyptian cast of counten
| ancc and a l oyal sort of swagger about him.
| But his way w.- s a somewhat peculiar way,
: on account of the uncertainty of his temper,
and very few people could get on with him;
; also, if he could get it, ho would drink like
. a fish, and when be drank he became shock
ingly bloodthirsty. These wero his bad
' points: his good ones were that, like most
people of the Zulu blood, he became exooed
j ingly attached to one if he took to you at all;
ho was a hard working and intelligent man,
and about as dare devil and plucky a fi flow
■ at a pinch rs 1 have ever had to do with.
H- was :ibo’it five and thirty years of ago or
so, but not a ‘kcshla’ or ringed man. I V c ‘*
1 e that l:c got in’ . troubl •in some way in
J-' ’.-.':i id. • - I th aut’iorit ivs of his tribe
v. ’ u ♦ all .*? him to assume tho ring, and
11. t j. why he came to work at tho gold
field-. ” :licr man, orraUserlad, Jim-Jim,
v.ws a Jispoch Kafir, or Enobnpsc, and even
in tho light of subsequent events I fear that
I cannot speak very veil of him. He was an
idle and careless young rascal, and only that
very morning I had to tell Pharaoh to give
him a beating for letting the oxen stray,
which ho did with the greatest gusto, al
though ho was, by the way, very fond of
Jim-Jim. Indeed, I saw him consoling Jim-
Jim afterwards with a pinch of snuff from
his own ear box whilst he explained to him
that tho next time it came in the way of duty
to flog him he meant to thrash him with the
other band, so as to cross the old cuts and
make ‘a pretty pattern on his buck.’
: “Well, off they went, though Jim-Jim did
not at a\l like leaving tho camp at that hour,
even when the moonlight was so bright, and
in due course returned safely enough with a
great bundle of wood. I laughed at Jim-Jim
and asked him if ho had seen anything, mi l
ho said yes, he had; ho had seen two large,
yellow eyes staring nt him from behind a
bush and hoard something snore.
j “As, however, on further investigation, the
yellow eyes and tho snore appeared to have
existed only in Jim-Jim’s lively imagination,
I was not greatly disturbed by this alarming
report, but, having seen to tho making up of
tho fire, got into the skerm and went quietly
to sleep with Harry by my side.
“Some hours afterwards I woke up with a
start. I don’t know what woke mo. The
moon had gone down, or at least was almost
hidden behind the soft horizon of bush, only
her red rim being visible. Also a wind had
sprung up and was driving long hurrying
lines of cloud across the starry sky, and alto
gether a great change had come over the
, mood of tho night. By the look of the sky I
judged we must bo about two hours from
daybreak.
“Tho oxen, which were ns usual tied to the
disselboom of the Scotch cart, wero restless—
they kept snufi’mg and blowing and rising
up and lying down again, so 1 at once sus
spected that they must wind something.
Presently 1 know what it was that they
winded, for within fifty yards of us a lion
roared, not very loud, but quite loud enough
I to make my heart come into my mouth.
j “Pharaoh was sleeping on the other side of
1 the eart, and beneath it I saw him raise his
j head and listen.
I “ ‘Lion, Inkoos,’ ho whispered, ‘lion.’
“Jim-Jim also jumped up, and by the faint
light I could see that he was in a very great
fright indeed.
“Thinking that it was as well to be pre
pared for emergencies, I told Pharaoh to
throw wood upon the fire, and Woke up
Harry, who I verily believe was capable of
I sleeping happily through the crack of doom.
; lie was a little soared at first, but presently
■ the excitement of the position came home to
■ him, and he became quite anxious to see his
. majesty face to face. I got my rifle handy
I and gave Harry his—a AVestly Richards fall-
j ing block, which is a very useful gun for a
■ youth, being light and yet a good killing
I rifle—and then wo waited.
I “For a long time nothing happened, and I
I began to think that tho best thing that wo
[ could do would be to go to sleep again, when
' suddenly I heard a sound more like a cough
than a rear within about twenty yards of the
! skerm. Wo all looked out, but could see
! nothing; and then followed another period
'of suspense. It was very trying to the
nerve , this waiting for an attack that might
i be developed from any quarter, or might not
i be developed at all; and (.hough I was an old
! band at this sort of business, I was anxious
■ about Harry, for it is wonderful how the
[ presence of anybody to wh m one is attached
i unnerves a man in moments of danger, and
I that, made me nervous. I know, although it
i was now chilly enough, I could feel the pcr
i spiral ion running down my nose, and in order
I to relieve the strain on my attention, em
ployed my ‘lf in watching a beetle which ap
pcared to lie attracted by the firelight, and
was sitting before it thoughtfully rubbing his
antenna* against each other.
“Sudd-'idy the beetle gave such a jump
■ that In- i-e.tr’.y pitched headlong into the fire,
and so did we all—gave jumps, I mean, and
no wonder, for from right under the skerm
fence there came a most frightful roar—a
roar that literally made the. Scotch curt
shake and shake ajid took the breath out
of me.
“Harry made an exclamation, Jim-Jim
howled outright, while the poor oxen, who
wero terrified almost out of their hides, shiv
ered and lowed piteously.
“The night was almost entirely dark now,
for the moon had quite set and tho clouds
had covered up the stars, so that the only
light that we had came from the fire, which
by this time was burning up brightly again.
But, as you know, firelight is absolutely use
less to shoot by, it is so uncertain, and besides
it penetrates but a very Ettlo way into the
darkness, although if one is in tho dark out
side one can see it from so far away.
“Presently the oxen, after standing still
for a moment, suddenly winded tho lion and
did what I feared they would—began tc
‘skrek,’ that is, to try and break loose from
the trektow to which they were tied, and
rush oil madly into tho wilderness. Lions
know of this habit on tho part of oxen, whicl
arc, I do believe, the most foolish animals un
der the sun, a sheep being aver.; Solomon
compared to them, and it is by no means un
common for a Ton to get in such a position
that a herd or span of oxen may wir.d him,
skrek, break their reins and rush off into the
bush. Os course, once they are there they
are hcb’l .xu in tho dark; and then the Eon
chooses the one that lie loves best and eats
him at his leisure.
“Yfell, round and round went our six poor
oxen, nearly trampling us to death in their
mad rush; indeed, had we not hastily tum
bled out of tho way wo should have been
t rampled to death, or at the least seriously
injured. As it was, Harry was run over,
and poor Jim-Jim being caught by tho trek
tow somewhere beneath the arm, was hurled
right across the skerm, landing by my side
only some paces off.
“Snap went tho disselboom of the cart be
; neath the transverse strain put upon it. Ila 1
it not broken tho cart would have overset; ns
it was, in another minute, oxen, cart, trek
tow, icims, broken disselboom, and every
thing were soon tied in one vast heaving,
i plunging, bellowing and seemingly inextrica
ble knot.
“For a moment or two this state of affairs
took my att< ntion off from the Eon that had
caused it, but while 1 was wondering what
on earth was to be done next, and what wo
should do if tho cattle broke loose into the
bush and wero lost, for cattle frightened in
this manner will go right away like mad
things, it was suddenly recalled in a very
painful fashion.
“For at that moment I jierccived by the
light of tho fire a kind of gleam of yellow
traveling through the air toward us.
(Continued next week.)
Thebldest convict, and ths third
oldest convict as to the length oi
time served in the Tennessee pent
tentiary have just been released
Eli Bidding who entered th? prison
June 3, 1867 under a life sentence
for murder. His sentence was com
muted by Gov. Bates to 28 years,
He served in all 20 years and S
months having earned the diil’er
ence between this term and 28 years
in good time. The other prisonei
was Washington Conelly, colored,
who entered the prison Feit. 2, 1873.
under a sentence of 25 years ! >:
mayhem. His sentence was com
muted on th ■ g:ouu’s of lacri r
ious cen 'net by Gov. Taylor to 21
years, and be bad made 5 years unci
II months good time. He never lost
anytime from sickness or nnyolliei
cause and was considered the best
prisoner in the penitentiary.
-THE GIRL I LEFT EEHEKD KE.”
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s ' T-’v-l’C Y(>r want to sell Real Estate
; of any kind ? Place in our hands and w<-
: will mlvi'itisf ft. sale, no pay, and
| then only a small commission.
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I I fol lowing dtacripl ions of‘.Property wo
c i have for sale, on limo to good parties.
1
. I Highly aeres, 1’ , miles from Summ- r
' villi ; l.‘seres c-pcii, i ulnm-e well timber
. < d wi-h While Oak, Hickory, Pine, etc.
('ood spring <»u ii ; good i'-r farming pur
-3 ' roses. 1'• . mile from church and *-:'booL
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i Niuoly Four erfr.-qfioout of) ai-ras open,
. , in good e mdiibm. 2*‘» acres first class '
m bottom <m CmiP.oogn river. b-v-l, re- |
'■ ’ mnir.der l-r Eon. Weil watered, good !
1 dw- li'mr with two tomint houses and
1 good i m-: beu-es, oreb.nrd of choice p< ach '■
t , ami apple tr.u-s. (I miles from l-uminer- | 1
- j ville, 1 mil's from church mid schools. : '
Town proiu rly '• Pi, the sub- :
iirhs of Hummcrvir.c. I.<vcl; a most
I desoaid si’o fop residence; good small
s I dwelling with out houso, well and
i.-'primr rdt’ording an ahu'id.inec of the
~ , v.. t..-r;<-rcb.ir*.l .:f choice
, 1 freif .-•< ■ • I number ol
i i o ra r e vinc *- | (
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a, 1 Eight v :•■■■■ 1 in* rll: within the
t. rem.uii'i- r weii 0:u»'<■>••••!; :'•> ceres icvei,
I balamm 1.-roko--, •_ go<>fi - lay I-m mint ion:
n in <-<>od (io. Fine 1- rming purposes
i ami also welt local cd ho- re nimofs; also
0 | comm: . :■ C iron
■, j Town J?'.? . rt;,' 3 lots Site 120, 2 front
is I ing on street, one fronting on
y | Church :’ r. <•!. lav< 1; good wagon and
h i blacksmith shop on corn.-r lot. Most |
, I suitnbl * place* in town for business
*? house; also desirable locality fordwell- |
! ing.
‘ c j Bost farm in th;- county for its inches ;
’. ami price. 2CO acres; 100 open, other well ]
timbered with pine, oak, wainiH. etc., on |
11 Chattooga river. EG a ere a first class hot
d' tom; well watered and in every wav |
;o | suitable for stock farm; about ‘ 3 level,;
n ' the ol h r rolling; clay foundal ion and in
l( j g< od Ii?;. Two comfortable small dwell
.. ings, 3 tenant Imuses, with good out.
( , 2 Imuses; also large quantities of rich iron
J o”e on portions of it. Eicht miles from
Summerville.
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’ I’arm—lo2 acres; .’0 acres lino creek
n bottom. I pland fine tor cotton and
i, .vheat, and in high state of cultivation,
•j (n every way suitabb- for stock farm,
y Two good new framed dwellings; free
n stone wat< r in abundance; < hurchti.
schools and post office near.
r Farm IGO acres; n<l and gray soil, 20
r acres first class branch bottom, 70 acres
i- clcaredr well fenced and in good state ot
n cultivation. Balance heavily timber. I.
v Thousands of lim* tan bark; 2 1
I well, 2 framed houses ami 3 tenant
J houses, all in good fix. Select, orchard
ami vineyard. 8 miles from Summer
ville; 2 milt s from postolliee,.schools and
e churches.
I Town property— 1 lots 00x120: 2 front
,s ing on Slain street; 2 rear lots, level;
good small dwelling, framed, new, 2
f good brick chimneys, good garden,patch
etc. Also one of the most suitable spes
b for business houses in Summerville
i- Terms easy and exceedingly low price.
, Farm 1-0 acres red loam and gray
soil; Gil acres open,well fenced. Rcmain
■v dvr well timbered ami w< 11 watered.
0 < total 5 room dwellinir, with pood burn,
' etc., on I.nFr.yetto mx'l Blue Pond road,
a 1 mile from Alpine, Ga.
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Farm—llß acres, just across the Ala.,
line, red ami gray soil; well watered, G 5
e acres < ; ?n, other covered with finest
v quality *-f timber, afiording great quan
tities of tanbark, inexhaustaole limo
quarrv; also supposed qualities of other
xaluahle minerals. Goon orchard.grapes
etc; good b room dwelling, tenant house,
, barns, etc, l.< iug mar Lot-kout is suita-
Ide and c< nv« nient for stock raising. 1
q- j mile from Menlo, Ga.
L ; Farm—l€G acres, rod, gray and sandy
•. soil; fine siork farm; well watered; 80
acres cleared, 20 acres first class creek
II | bottom; largo <iuantities of fine timber;
good -Iroom log d weiling,2 tenant houses,
‘ . stables, etc.. 1 mile from Foster’s Store.
'.I Farm of IGO acres in Floyd county II
. ! miles from Rome. 2 miles from R. A 1».
J i R. R.; red and gray soil, well watered:
<s aero:; cleared; (•onlains thousand of i
fine- timber,also rich deposits of iron ore
1 Town property, about two acres, in I
] suburbs of Summerville, good small ,
” framed dwelling, with two rooms am!
L kitchen; good garden, patches, etc.
Farm of IGO acres on Sand mountain,!
tv-0 and a half miles from Kartah, ,: '
\ < pen ami in high state <•!* cuhivatmn,
1 balance hcavilv timbered. A*lapte<’. to
d growing an vrhing rtfst 1 in (his county
, f j especialh I'ruiis, clc. dwelling, 21
“ ’ tenant houses,out houses, etc. Improve-!
-r ! meats m-w and in good rendition; 2j
u ! good orchards, 2 gi.orl f-priiigsjoT free-;
| stone water; < h’:r« i.es, . chums, and j
posiodice eon veiiien t:
2>. Town propc-’.’tv 11,’E Arres on sub
n.rl)s of Fummcrville. level, well fenced <
and in good state of cultivation, good
voting orchard apple v.nd peach, good
I‘framed six rooi»-ed dwc-ling not. quite
complete, pretti<-st location M Summer
ville for residences.
29 Town property lot 4 in hi ck li>
with good well upon it. Healthy ‘Jiid-.
desirable location tor dwelling.
30 For sale or rent, farm of 480 acres,-
4 miles from Summerville; 200 acres
cleared, 35 acres good creek bottom; well
wr.tercd, good dwelling, out houses, etc.
Will sell all or a portion as desired.
31. - Farm 213 acres 2’E miles from-
Summerville, Ga.; 50 acre s red mulatto
balance gray. 125 cleared and well
fenced, in high state of cultivation,
splendid framed house with six rooms,
5 good’tenant houses, ami good barns
and other out houses; healthy location;
contains large depo.sits of iron ores, with
largo (quantities of various ami line
timbers.
32. Farm 2G acres, well improved,
first-class bottom on (‘b;ittonga river, 1
mile from Summerville; good 4-room
house, stables, etc; well, orchard, Ac.
33. Farm 80 acres 2 miles from Sum
merville; n d mulatto soil, level,6o acres
open; well fenced ami in high state pf
cultivation, balance heavily timbered,
good substantial improvements; 5-room
house, barn, stables, orchard etc.
34. For sale or sent, splendid tanyard
fed directly from a spring; all necessary
I fixtures ami tools for tanning; good two
story tan shop; about ten acre's gooc
level land 6 acres cleared. Very cheap
and terms easy.
35. Farm, 160 acres, gray and red mu
latto soil: 5o acres open, balance heavily
timbered. Good dwelling, tenant house
stables, well, etc. Cheap, and on ex
cot (lingly easy terms.
36. Farm, 500 acres, red mulatto and
gray soil; 125 open and in high stale of
cultivation, balance heavily timbered;
about GO acres first-class bottom on Chat
tooga river, well watered and in every
way suitable to stock raising. Four
good dwelling with good and convenient
barns out houses, etc. Supposed to con
tain large deposits of iron and other val
uable minerals. 3 miles from Summer
ville, Ga.
37. Town property, 12’■■ lots, 4 lots
60x150, balance 50x120, ail in one body;
in the In al!hi( st and most desirable
part of Summerville. Can be divided
into several beautiful building sites.
Good two-story building, six rooms,
neatly and comfortly finished; a good
barn and good water. Price low and
terms easy.
38. One half int('rest in a corn grist
■ mill on Teloga creek, 6 miles from Sum
i mervillc, Ga., 7 1-2 foot fall, giving an
•average of 12 horse power. 3 acres of
I land, good milland gin house, good four
j room dwelling and out houses, in good
i neighborhood, convenient to schools,
j cot. Price low and terms easy.
■ Farm—l6o acres. 30 acres open, th©
I remainder covered with finest timber
the county affords, consisting of pi no
. and all varieties of oak,especially moun
tain oak; good tenant house, stable, etc;
good well; also contains large deposits
of tho richest quality of magnetic iron
ore. 4 miles from Summerville: conve
nient to elm relies and schools.
2s acres, mostly level, just outside tho
corporate limits of Summerville; 17 open
ana in high state of cultivation, other
well timbered. Red and gray soil; good
spring. Fiuj- farming land and well
adapted to fruit raising, etc.
Best vineyard in the county, 4,060
select bearing vim s. in good condition;
also first class orchard of select apple
and peach. I mile east of Trion Factory.
SO acres, 40 open and well fenced,balance
well timbered; about half level; all suit
able for agricultural purposes, and es
pecially tor fruit growing. Good spring
and fine freestone well. 2 good small
houses. A Iso contains largo deposits of
rich iron ore. Cheapest farm North Ga.
Farm 100 acres, mostly broken, 15
cleared, balance well timbered. t*:ray
and red soil; good five-room framed
dwelling with outhouses. School and
churches convenient.
Farm—2oo acres, IGO open; well fenced
and in good state of cultivation. V.'ell
watered. 35 acres fine crook bottom, red
and gray soil, good dwelling, 4 rooms,
barn, fish-pond, ( rchard, etc. Situated
cast of Taylor’s Ridge.
Farm—B2 acres, 70 open, well fenced,
and in high state of cultivation; t>o line
creek bottom, wi ll watered; good dwell
ing, 5 rooms, stable, etc; also good gin
house, and tenant house. Located in
Dirttown valley. *
Farm, 300 acres, mostly level, 115 open;
in good state of cultivation; remainder
very heavily timbered. Dark mulatto
and gray soil; well improved; good 8
room dwelling, 2 tenement houses, barn,
stables, etc. Well watered; 4 miles from
Summerville.
Town property for sale or rent. Good
framed 4 room* dwelling. Situated in
the healthiest, most desirable locality in
Summerville. Ample garden, etc.
Town property for sale or rent. Neat
framed * store-house, ample and v/ell
furnished, fronting on main street.
Stock farm 319 acres, 130 open in good
cultivation and well fenced. Contains a
great quantity of timber of all varieties,
. dark gray and red mulatto soil, running
water on all parts of the j-laec; tine
. poach and apple orchard that never fails
to hit; house and other improvements
' good.
Farm, 21 acres, 1 mile from Summer
j ville, mostly level, red mulatto soil.
; about half first class creek bottom, well
■ watered, 12 acres cleared and fenced,
i balance well timbered; good building
! sites.
I
I Farm 156 acres: ICO first-class river
boitoin, (i 5 open, balance well timbered.
3-room framed dwelling, good
For further particulars as to descrip
. lien ami terms, call upon or address
i Chattooga 1’ ’i.-. n •Estate < ‘c.,
Plumerville. Ga