Part 21 (2/2)
Just as he expected, Frank was still rather sore on the following day
He let the others do the hunting thatbehind the bunch with his ready caround, and brought the best part of an elk with theht have been an antelope instead He was not partial to elk meat, which was perhaps natural in a stock beef whenever the spirit moved
”How about that bear den, Reddy?” asked Jerry, as they lounged about the camp in the early afternoon
”Any time you say the word I was only waitin' till Frank felt hiain,” was the other's reply
”Oh, don't let my condition keep you from that little entertainment
Besides, I feel ht put ht kind of trim,” declared that individual pro a pretense of clapping his hands
”Talk to ive any fellow points,” declared Jerry
”I understand the principle he works on It's the same as what they call homoepathy, that 'like cures like' I've seen a man, when struck by a rattler, chase the reptile, kill him, and apply his crushed body to the wound, in the belief that one poison would counteract the other,” said the stocker for infor these lines
”Well,” said Mr Mabie, ”the poor chap died, I'm sorry to say In another case, the fellow insisted on filling hih it, too, which proved the rule, though I believe there are better things to save a ht idea
The exciteet, and take soo this afternoon?” queried Reddy anxiously
”Whenever you're ready,” answered Frank
They set out within half an hour Of course, the whole four chuuide, Mr Mabie and Billy Each of the cowboys carried his rope, for of late it had seeht be a very necessary accompaniment to these side hunts
They headed in a quarter where, as yet, none of the boys had been This led them directly into the thickets that lay at the base of the ainst the blue heavens
None of the churizzly that had fallen before the rifle which Jerry wielded so cleverly
”Reh rocky gulches, ”every Mountain Charlie isn't going to keel over as easily as the one Jerry got He was lucky to send his lead to a vital point I've seen veteran hunters shoot a bear a dozen times, and then have to finish him with a knife”
”I've always read that they can stand a tre under,” adraceful, when stirring such a terrible monster out of his den, for the hunters to post themselves in trees near by While at first blush such a procedure ht seeive the rascal no more chance than you can help Even then I've known him to shake a fellow out of a small tree, and only for the assistance of the others he rizzly can't climb a tree, then, sir?” questioned Will uneasily
”Not ordinarily He e to swarrees Select straight ones, and of some size; then you're safe”
”Thank you, Mr Mabie I'll follow your advice You see, I'rapher of the club, and they could hardly afford to lose ht be necessary for his seeh They knew their chum too well for that He had proven more than once that when it came to a pinch he could conquer his natural weakness, and show the right spirit of bravery, especially if it were one of his comrades as in peril
”Well,” remarked Reddy a short tiined as nificant look around