Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 7 | Puts Sail on His Sleigh

PI TS SAIL ON HIS SLKIIiH Younp Fsrmei ExtricaTe Himself From Predicament by Ingenuity. A remarkable adventure hefell a Tol-ey Tol-ey iX. D.) man last we-k. Vhile the Tollev Topics did not have a reporter on the spot. It secured and printed the story, but without those aldellghts and highlights that the Incident seems to demand. Michael Patlison. a young farmer near Tolley. was driving home in his shlgh across the praliie. The wind liad beaten down the show, the KBJD1 wave bad melted the top layers and the cold nights hud frozen them until thre was a crust on the snow that would bear a man s weight The horse, remembering the barn, was making rapid time for home when the sleigh went Into a thank-you-ma'am ar.d remained there. The horse and shafts went on home. Paulson stood In the road, stained his feet and cussed the luck. A fierce wind was blowing In the direction of home ami he hml about made up bis mind that It would be fairly easy to walk the u n miles when an idea struck him. it vvas a life saver, Pattlsoi puiie.i the sleigh out of the rut and dragged It out on the prairie. The wind was so fierce that the sleigh u.iuld almost skid along of itself. BUI Paulson, with two slats and some wire, rigged up the lap robe as a sail, gave the craft a running start. Jumped in and was at once slipping across the prairie Ilka an Iceboat. The only trouble was that there vvas no certain way to guldi the craft But Pattlson hung one leg '"it behind and did some llttb iteer-Ing iteer-Ing with It. Fortunately the wind vvas In - sat tlv the right quarter or we would have to do some lying about how Pattlson Pat-tlson tacked " Fails compel us to dnilt. however, that 'be wind was right. The raft quickly overtook the astonished horse, who had now reduced himself to a trot, i ii. I soon left him hull down In the dls- i mi e in fai t the suigh and occupant irrlved home twenty minutes ahead of the brute, and In snubbing up banged Into the b;u ii SO hard that it filghtened the cow . When the hero of this tale told It 1 1 the streets of Tollev the Tollev. ins Started a little and looked surprised Some of theni whistled softly and looked meditatively away at the h. nl.. n others doubted Minneapolis Journal.