Sure enough, the man I'd pinched was a long, ga'nt woman with a
little black mustache, and here she came!
"We started in right there. I never saw such a poisonous person as
that woman. She was coiled, her head was up, and her rattles
agoing, and so I finally lit out But I'm sort of fat, and they
over-ran me. They bayed me against the sea-wall, and all I had the
heart to do was to hold 'em off some more. Soon as I got my wind I
shook 'em off a second time and run some more, but they downed me.
By that time we'd begun to gather quite a crowd. ...
"Dave, was you ever treed by wild hogs? That's how them two people
kept after me. You'd have thought I'd deprived 'em of their young.
I didn't want to hurt 'em, but whenever I'd run they'd tangle my
legs. By and by I got so short of breath that I couldn't run, so I
fell on top of the man. But the woman got me by the legs and
rolled me under. I busted out and hoofed it again, but they caught
me and down we went, me on top. Then that man's helpmate grabbed
my legs and rolled me over, like she did before. Finally I got too
tired to do anything but paw like a puppy. It seems like we must
have fought that way all the morning, Dave.
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