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Friday, August 3, 1034
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
So the buffaloes, as heretofore i out front the comers of his mouth,
ply had to swim and bravely
tackled the Job. And I suppose it stated, or at least some of them, much to the disgust of Cheyenne,
must have taken them about 73 arrived safely in America, and by who bawled him out several times
days to make the crossing of 3000 the time I first hit the west, had for it. but didn't succeed in break
miles as no buffalo can swim over done such a good Job of replenish ing him of the habit. Finally, one
40 miles a day and keep it up. ing that the prairies were black night at supper, the lord started
Anyway, some of them made it all with their herds. Everybody had wolfing down a big Juicy steak,
light and soon had their old buffalo robes, buffalo shoes and bhxxl squirting from his mouth as
stamping grounds replenished as all the buffalo meat they wanted usual, and Chyenne. being in a
to eat Then cante Buffalo Bill and rather bad humor, pulled out one
before.
is probable the polar bears a horde of hunters who slaugh of his fifties and killed Mr. Lord
Noah Didn’t Noah Much and It arctic
hares found the north tered the fine animals wantonly right there. From what I have
Geography When Thot Atlantic frozen over and had no and wastefully, giving no thought heard about that episode, 1 would
in getting back to Green to the time when the supply would imagine that it took all the tact
Entire World Flooded, trouble
land. It is harder to figure out how be exhausted, the same as people and finesse of the shrewdest dip
Says Prospector - Poet the kangaroos were enable to re are now doing with the country's lomats of both nations to avert
turn home across the long stretch young evergreens each December, war. Nothing was done to Chey
By J. C. REYNOLDS
of ocean that divides Australia in their greed for Christmas trees, enne, though, beyond a reprimand,
The most stupendous feat ever from the mainland, so we are com totally regardless of the day when as far as 1 know
achieved by four-footed animals pelled to suppose that a large our forests will be so thoroughly
One night I was in a saloon and
since the beginning of time, was school of whales happened to be depleted that we will have to pur Cheyenne, pretty drunk, was tell
chase
our
lumber
from
foreign
na
the successful negotiation of the taking their ease at that time be
ing some of his experiences to the
Atlantic ocean by the 14 buffaloes, tween the two continents, and that tions, or go without.
In the west in early days was an crowd. "One time," he said, "when
(see Genesis 7:2) who had been when Ham and Eggs and Hotcakes
Buffalo Bill and me was takln* a
cooped up in old George Noah's drove the beasts down to the beach old buffalo hunter and Indian little
trip in a kivered wagon
and
set
the
dogs
on
'em,
they
just
scout
called
“
Cheyenne,"
famous
ark during the flood for 12 months
across
the kentry, we saw a big
leaped
from
one
whale's
back
to
because
of
his
exploits
on
the
fron
and 10 days. (Gen. 7:11, and 8:14).
When Noah's three sons. Ham. another till they gained the other tier. This Cheyenne always carried dust risin' and Bill sex. sex he,
Shem and Japeth, whose names side. Anyway it makes a fine little two .50 caliber six-shooters that 'Here comes them damned buffa-
lers hittin' fer their "northern
translated from the Semetic into bedtime story with which to put he had had made in the Colts stompin'
grounds, and we better be
Arms factory, expressly for his
English mean Ham. Eggs and Hot the kiddies to sleep of nights.
outa their way.' So we
If we accept Moses' version of own use. No one else cared to pack gettin'
cakes. were dispatched to the high
prairies of America to round up this wet spell, commonly called the two such cannons around except drove our rig up on a handy knoll
and bring to the ark these care deluge, we will have to acknowl him. One night in Cheyenne, Wy and camped. Pretty soon here they
a string of 'em half a mile
fully selected animals, the Atlantic edge that the mountains in those oming, while on a drunk, this old come,
wide
and
gallopin' as hard as they
scout
took
a
notion
to
visit
the
days
were
just
in
their
infancy
and
was scarcely more than a mud
go. And I'll be damned," he
puddle and could be waded almost have grown enormously since then, vaudeville theater. They were hav- could
"if Bill and me didn't
anywhere. This was a long, hard especially Mount Ararat on which ing a play on the stage where one concluded,
have ter camp there seven days
trip for - these youngsters, mere the ark landed, as he states in actor shot at another actor and and
nights before that herd all
boys of not more than a hundred Genesis 7:20, "Fifteen cubits up missed him.
by and the dust they made
iuiu i This act was being
_ pulled off got
years old (Gen. 5:32), but they | ward did the waters prevail; and
Fif-1 just as old Cheyenne stepped I ln- buried us up so deep that we had
proved trustworthy and surprised j | the mountains were covered." Fif-
iow ‘ • side the door. "What kind
or shoot
shi ter take shovels and dig out before
___
their dad by arriving a week ahead teen cubits, as you probably know,
is that?" he growled. “Drunk we could get away from there." I
of time.
is 22 feet and six Inches, so that ing
.....................
leave it to the reader whether
After a few days rest. Ham was is as high as the mountains were as I am, I can beat that all to will
to
call
that a true lie or a damn
hell,"
and
drawing
one
of
his
fif
at
that
time,
evidently.
We
are
sent to Greenland to pick up a
lie.
ties,
he
plugged
the
actor
right
be
couple of polar bears, while Hot told this great rainstorm lasted
One night while drunk and
cakes started to Australia to bring only about six WEEKS and the tween the eyes from where he prowling
in Chinatown, old
back a pair of kangaroos, only two water covered the mountains. I stood by the door. The town of Cheyenne around
acroa a bona-fide
of each kind being needed as they have been up along the coast in Cheyenne was a pretty wild burg priest from ran some
famo ts temple
were not rated “clean” animals British Columbia where it rained those days and shootings were in China, who sold him
ticket to
like the buffaloes. Eggs had to for six MONTHS steady, what we every-day occurrences, so nothing heaven. Of course a everybody
stay at home and help old George call "wet” rain (not Oregon mist), was done about it, but shortly af knows there are temples in China
nail the tar-paper on the roof and raindrops as large as one's thumb terward this old frontiersman where the priests make a practice
see to it that the skunks, rattle and six or seven feet long, and all nearly started a war between Eng of selling these tickets. Cheyenne
snakes. bobcats and monkeys did it did was to make more mud. land and America.
Some dukes and lords, connected thought the world and all of thaX
n't get out of the corral. Also the Didn't raise the ocean an inch, as
in some way with the royal family ticket and kept it right with him
cold-storage plant had to be kept far as I could see.
All joshing aside, this deuge was of England, visited this country
going so none of the bananas
would spoil before everything was probably nothing more than a tre for the purpose of having a buffa
ready for the start. Of course all mendous flood in the valley of the lo hunt. And old Cheyenne was
this is mainly supposition, but as Euphartes and surrounding coun appointed as their guide, by reason
Children 10c
no one really knows anything try, the same as happens every of his wide experience. Every cour ■ •Vfl B
about it, and as all the data ob now and then in some of the river tesy was extended by our govern
Saturday Only
tainable is derived from the va valleys of China in which millions ment to these distinguished visit
rious suppositions of several mil are drowned and vast sections of ors and soon they were in the
lion many-minded people concern the country turned into an inland midst of the buffalo country in
BUCK JONES in
ing what happened at that time, sea. It was something like that dulging their ambition.
Now. the hump of a buffalo is a
I presume that any supposition of which originated the story of a
mine has as good a face value in deluge in China thousands of years most delicious morsel for any meat
the market as any of the others. ago, in which Chinese history lover, and one of these royal lords
“PIRATE TREASURE
So I suppose that on the return states only one man, a Chinaman, was extremely fond of it. He liked
journey of the buffaloes, they was saved. At no time was the to broil thick cuts of it slightly on
Sunday and .Monday
found the Atlantic so swollen by entire world all under water, no each side and gobble it down while
the heavy rains that to get back matter what anybody may tell hot, in such large mouthfuls that
often the warm blood would gush
to their beloved prairies, they sim- you.
DELUGE WAS BIG
MYTH-STAKE, IS
REYNOLDS’ IDEA
and it was probably buried with
him when he died So I presume
he went from here straight to Chi
nese heaven. And us there is not
a living human being who actually
knows where he did go to, my
guess is fully ns good as that of
any other person. But 1s not the
pleasing Oriental custom of selling
one-way tickets t<? heaven a more
direct a^d satisfying way <>l <loing
business, than the |a*rplexing and
antiquated methods in use by ua
unenlightened Occidentals? Think
that one over
That mountain peaks were hid fur
weeks.
Six weeks of rain, I should ex*
plain.
Up north would just wet down
the dust.
Along that coast, (no idle boast),
The rains descend, six MONTHS
on end.
Six MONTHS it jioura, upon those
shores
Big, drenching drops, before It
stops.
Six MONTHS of thia, without a
miss,
FACTS VERKIN FICTION
Each winter's score will show -
or more.
These yarns and rhymes, of an
cient times,
Yet six MONTHS straight, or even
To be right plain, give me a pain
EIGHT.
Won't cause a flood Just makes
One thing that alia the lurid tales
mor mud.
I sjteak about. thy don't pan out.
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Modern education seems to cul
That yarn of Noah, told o'er and tivate the never mind Weston
o'er
Leader.
That deluge, pshaw! sounds pretty
raw.
For forty days, the story says,
It raind on earth, for all 'twas
worth.
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