Show KEPT ONE JUMP MP AIlE AHEAD AD OF RAIN RAIl Veracious Driver Up Some Record When hen I was a a boy Na Nathaniel tha S SCole Cole Colp of oC Isander I NY N Y relates I worked on a firm for a n mm man by the name of oC Caleb lie did n a great deal of oC buying buyink and soiling selling sellin of off f ft fast t horses horel but he lie was newer never ne er sates fled No ho matter wh it ho hI hOIl bought ht the horses newer never seemed quite speedy enough for hImI him I Finally Caleb heard of ot i a very sery fast team in the West est and Immediately eft dt bv by tr train to try to buy them thern At Atthe Atlie the rhe end of a 11 week ee who ho should drive In lint but Caleb Ca leh with Ith the prettiest t tram of horses that mm man ewer ever laid 1111 f eyes ye on I could see tint that Caleb was mighty proud of ot them 1 hev had rote one fossil fault he confided to me- me men mea me mea a n deadly fear of thunderstorms No Noone Noone Noone one could on the score of their sp speed ed for they p pis d anum a num number ber of ot fast trains on the way home One diy day about an hour after Caleb had left to drive to town I r C saw W n a thunderstorm comin coming up sip in the W est Remembering whit what he hid had told m me of his horses feir I waited uneasily for him The storm came nearer and nearer neuer ins ind finally I could hear bear the roar of ot the rain is lS It carne cime In i a solid sheet down the road roid towards to me Then I made out Caleb The wag wagon wagon a on was about iU 10 feet ahead of the raIn as I nn ran to open the barn ham doors door lien hen I lone 1001 ed cd n again aln the horses were coming faster thin than the fastest ex express express express press train and the rain had not gained an Inch The lightning how however however however ever was wis flashing nil all about and In particular about the wagon agon tire tires completely encircling them They were regular rings s of oC fire I was with fear Caleb couldn t drive in the barn birn ill III e a that that llie l lie would set It on fire But he e esl eI I dently saw the daner for he be went by the barn rn like a n streak and ind was ns not seen for ee several days When hen hen he dId come bid he told me mc he had kept ahead of the storm until It was spent but In doing so eo he hid driven more than OO mlle miles outside the state T need hardly say cay that hit t Calebs s passion for fast hor horses es was by nosy y completely satisfied Put he never ne sold this team Pathfinder team Pathfinder Maga Maga- Magazine zine |