The Holly chieftain., June 01, 1900, Image 8

About The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987

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A TOSTLY RABBIT.
History »f the Msst Expenaive Cut
toetall That Ever Was i
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~The mowt expensive rabiit ou Tee- :
ord ™ said 3 weil-Rnown river maz, re- |
lates toe Neow Orirans Times Demorrst, |
“lved azd is probebiy sl Evizges 3|
Big sagar plastation is Jefersoz pr»‘
ish. ¥o 13z sot jokisg; lam in dead
earnest. The piace [ refer tois owned
by 23 oid friend of mine, and iz one of
the Szesst oa the whole river. !xknt
been worke? of late years almost ea- |
tirsiy by I:sliaz lsbov, zod the fove-|
men have Bad a good deal of trouhie n |
soging with some of the racial pe-|
exliarities of the bands. Amnong other
things they mere excredingy fond of |
wiiZ game of all Kinds and 2ad as espe- |
cial sad jartiesisr Eking for rabbits.
The ronssquimes wis that whenever a
eotiontail would be scaved up iz the|
fleid the entire gang would 4:99:!»1‘:!
Boes aad dert in pursnit. ike [taliaze
were gzuod sprinters and the rabbit wax
generally canght, but every episods of
that kind meant the loss of st Jeast
bal! az Bour’s time. There were &
great masy rabbits on the plastation,
and these imprompts chases becamme w 0
frequent that the foremas finally real
jzsd he would have to take draatic
meascres 1o sop them. Aecordingly
ke put all hands on notice one morning
that the next man who stopped work
to run after & rabbit wosid be docked
83 pay. About an hour afterward s
fr+. bunsie lesped suddenly out of 2
furrow and started sevoss the fleid
Instantly the cry went wp snd 2%
Itelizas went gallopisg iz purssit
Alter the fugitive bad, for a wonder,
sscaped, and the exeitement sbated
the {oreman quietly remarked that §2
apicce wonld be deducted from the
pay roil Saturday night. He was as
Kood as hia word, and that lone rabbit
whichk they didn’t get, cost the Ital
jana exactly $1.250. It wasthe last ever
ehased on the plantation. When one
sppears at present the swarthy labor
ern look wistinl, but keep on hoeing.
“YVou comt-a 100 much-s muz,” they say, |
sadly.” l
SAVED BY A FRENCHMAN.
How t(he Prince of Wales Was Res
esned from the Late Attempted
Assassination.
The credit for saving the life of the
prince at the recent uttempt 10 asaas
sinate him at Brussels, rightly belongs
to M. Louis von Mol, a young Parisian
law student, aays the New York Jour
nal. M. Von Mol says: "1 had just
alighted from the train coming from
Liege, which reaches Brussels at five
o'clock, when L heard that the prinee of
Wales wae in the station, and I went
into the earriage to see his royal high
ness and bow to him. I saw aservant
alight from the carriage; then, as the
train was starting, I perceived a young
man springing upon the footboard and
holding something in his hand. Tat
first thouzht that it was the servant
returning; but all at once there came
the report of a firearm. I sprang upon
the malefactor, eanght him with one
hand by the throat, and with the other
disarmed him. We rolled upon the
ground. As 1 picked myself up an in
dividual tried to seize the revolver 1
held—in order to claim the honor of
having apprehended Sipido; and an al
tercation then ensued, with the result
that the police came up, azal, on see
ing that I held the revolver and that
my hand was covered with blood from
an injury I had received in my fall, at
once arrested me. Fortunately, the
confusion did not last long, but in the
course of it I was brutally ill-treated
by the police. At last, secing their
mistake, they wished to apologize to
me, but I refused to accept their ex
cuses until the things I had lost in the
scuffie — an umbrella and a pair of
gloves—were returned.”
MUD HEN EGGS FOR CHICAGO.
Induetry Dut Little Knows a Money
Produeer for Hunters of
§ Burean County.
Greeu river “hen fruit” will soon be
gin to make its appearance in Chicago.
Thix s an lllinois produet of which Chi
ecagoans partake without knowing
what they are eating. Green river “hen
fruit” is the egg of & mud hen. Mud
Len is the common name of the Ameri
ean coot, or Virginian rail, says a Chi
cugo paper.
During the month of May is the busy
weason of the mud hen; likewise of the
individunls who make a living robbing
her nest. The hens, in large numbers,
frequent the marshes of the Green and
INinois rivers. They nest in swarms,
on bunches of drift, and bere they are
easily found by the egg hunters, who
find a ready market in Chicago for all
of their offerings. A Green river
hunter lnst year gathered 1,000 dozen
eggs in three weeks, clearing 2860 for
his lnbor., The price last year netted
six cents n dozen.
Nearly all of the eggs are taken in
Bureau county. They are coated in the
same manner as the product of the
barnyard fowl, and are «old to restaur
ant men and confectioners. It is said
to be an ensy matter for an egg hunter
acquninted with the haunts and habits
of the mud hen to take from %00 to 500
Jozen eggs in & single season.
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