Outing . It was Rainey himself whocaught the first bear by a perfect throwof the lariat. When asked how helearned the use of the Western rope,he laughed modestly and said hed ropeda few steers on the range. Down in Mississippi he has a big ranchon which he hunts, raises cotton, and en-gages in yearly tussles with black bearsand bob cats. It was there as a boy thathe got the training that made a throwwith his lasso almost as certain as a ballfrom his rifle. It was on the trip back from the Arc-tic that Silver King tore off the top ofhis cage in the hold and started upthrough the hatchway for th
Outing . It was Rainey himself whocaught the first bear by a perfect throwof the lariat. When asked how helearned the use of the Western rope,he laughed modestly and said hed ropeda few steers on the range. Down in Mississippi he has a big ranchon which he hunts, raises cotton, and en-gages in yearly tussles with black bearsand bob cats. It was there as a boy thathe got the training that made a throwwith his lasso almost as certain as a ballfrom his rifle. It was on the trip back from the Arc-tic that Silver King tore off the top ofhis cage in the hold and started upthrough the hatchway for the deck. While one nervy sailor drove him backwith a deck mop, another started on arun for the cabin where Mr. Rainey andothers of his party were at lunch. The bear is out, sir, cried this sailor,a moment later. Please close the door, said Raineyquietly. At the present time, having success-fully hunted all the game provided bythis country, Mr. Rainey is in Africachasing lions with a pack of RAIDING WITH THEFRENCHMEN BY JOHN R. SPEARS ?^ROM the point of view ofthose buccaneers who wantedi it distinctly understood thatthey were not in the businessfor their health the Frenchoutclassed the British as raid-ers. That is to say, the Frenchmen,during the buccaneer period, made theraids wherein more money was capturedthan was at any time secured by theBritish. For instance, in 1683, underthe lead of Grammont, Laurent deGraff, and Van Horn, a band whereinthe French predominated captured VeraCruz, Mexico, by a night attack. Theythen collected plunder, coin and plate tothe value of 1,500,000 pieces of eight and1,500 slaves with which they wentafloat. A fleet of seventeen Spanish war-ships appeared off the port while theywere gathering their plunder, but theyescaped without the loss of a man or arope yarn. Moreover, when well clearof the Spaniards they drove away theirEnglish consorts and so secured all theloot for themselves. On May 3, 1697, Cartagena surren-dered to a Fren
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