Show 1 1 narrow escapa allm tile the siofu talus sume timea sees beet long idues out through the ilia op races extending from tile hie top to the bottom of 0 tile the mountain they lire are tho ilo paths which avalanches avala nohea or slides allies lave have hewn na as clean of tree as ai is 13 done dona by maine lumbermen ono ot of theno theme elides la Is described by u u correspondent correspond ont of 0 forest a whose hunting companion was vim caught in in it A lot of us were wintering nt at tho the highland mary mine at the time and the snow fell ell so deep that year that the mail was taken off and ami we no had bad a mail for nearly throe mouths months so when wo we got gottko too hungry to stand bland it any longer I 1 told the boys boya ill id enow ahoo it over the range to carrs cabin where tile mail was lying ml got get our letters it morn more than twenty miles across bud anil I 1 know I 1 could make the journey thero there and back tn in two days it 11 I 1 have any bad luck so BO off I 1 started I 1 got along all ailt till fill I 1 came to polo pole creek und and thero there I 1 like liko the looks of things you bonsee lonsee sea it was getting along towards the time for slides and pole greek creek ifill hill had a mighty bad name cama for en am well I 1 thought if I 1 left the trail and struck straight up the lill hill keeping on the llie hogbrok hog beok between the gulches gal gul cLoa chos id have live a bettor better show BJ I 1 turned up it wits was tough work climbing so BO straight up with stilow shoes bud anil about hallway up I 1 stopped to rest reat I 1 half fleishell tini flu shed isheLl my pipe when I 1 heard a queer kind of 0 a loiso above nao me a sort abott of rasping swishing sound bound and when I 1 looked up I 1 thought the whole hill bill snow spenees and all had broke loose awl and was wag coming down on me I 1 had just time to sling gling my arms around the tree I 1 was loaning leaning against when the slide glide struck me my legs haw out from under me like ligh lightning taing bat I 1 gripped the tree like grim death though 1 I thought the a strain t fain would pull pi arms out of joint rhe he loose snow flaw so I 1 see do ao inch before mo me and I 1 hoar hear a k thing but that swish and roar that sounded about like what a heavy freight train rain makes when its running with do down a brakes over a long trestle and the crack of 0 the big spruced spruces as they gave way before it thou there fliers came a demaah as though the train had gone through the trestle ana I 1 know kneir the slide elide had struck tha ilia ther other bide aide of the polo pole creek gulch art aft after a while tho the snow cleared away ind nd I 1 found I 1 waa was bate safe yoa see being on in the hog back baak only the edge edgo of the slide dido lad had struck me but it id betin beon twenty yards yarda lower down yond never have heard beard this story I 1 was burial about up to the ha aboul tiers ders and I 1 had hard work woric to clear myself but bat it was harder work to get my coal ani and I 1 t travel without them hem tor for the snow was twenty feet deep in im places however I 1 got nn dug out itter after a while and ana started ahead again I 1 tell YOU oa a slide elide a thing to laugh at sad I 1 never want much each another close iloah abiva ai fill hit WAL I 1 was stiff and more for nearly two weeks as aa though hough id I 1 d been pounded all ever with c labs and my shoulders t got right light well yet |