OH, SHOOT! 



"Go on," we demanded, beside ourselves. 



"Well, that's all. Just as I scrambled up 

 where I could get a peek I seen her right on 

 top of me, coming full tilt, r'aring up on her 

 hind feet every few jumps for a look. She 

 must have snuffed me." 



"Yes, yes. Hurry up!" we chorused. 



"Her nose was curled up just the way it is 

 now and she was roaring something fierce. 

 She was so close I seen her eyes blazing and 

 all her hair on end, but those cubs say, you'd 

 'a' laughed at them cubs. They was snarling 

 like dogs and all headed for my legs." 



"Good Lord!" I ejaculated, sizing up the 

 skin, which was fully ten feet long as it lay, 

 "she must have looked as tall as a house." 



"Yes, she looked pretty tall," Joe agreed. 

 "Have you got anything to eat handy?" 

 But we forcibly gouged the rest of the story 

 from him. 



"Well, she was so close on to me that I 

 knew I had to get her so I did. But you'd 

 'a' laughed at them " 



"Where did you hit her?" we demanded. 



" Oh, in the eye. See!" He laid his finger 

 on a tiny hole half an inch back of the half- 

 inch eye, which was still fixed in an ugly stare. 



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