Show M ST FROZE That's of Happened to Bill i Hepburn Hepburn Hep Hop burn Our Artistic BIaG c Bill 1 I Was as et c g d in the Blizzard 1 opt His Last apt Hour our Hail Had a d Claims Claims alms lic ticker er Saved adad Hi His Ils Vort t Life Bill Hepburn our blacksmith had a horrible experience last Saturday night when he suffered a cx- cx I cane from death in the awful blizzard which that night and which was the wor worst 5 one as has visited Bing- Bing I yule me for lo to these many years ears The memory of Bills Bill's experience will ever remain green in his but we c it will not influence him one mite to live a life me or to toshun toshun shun that forken monster Rum R I Last morning Bill hitched his old gray mare marc Jinny to the pung I and started for the County Seat Scat ostensibly ostensibly ostensibly osten osten- I sibly to get full as usual which be he done It was about 5 p.m. p.m. p.m. p. p m. m before Bill left leit the Co Seat for Bingville on his return journey fuller than a tick and by a gallon galI gallon gal gal- I lon Ion jug of licker ticker which he heas was as bringing I home for reference I A fine snow had begin to fall fan before I II I Bill lc left t but he didn't appear to mind I that thaU being as he had bad his hide full of of I rum and felt warm and comfortable 1 After he had travelled tra about two miles I I Bill B H dropped off to sleep and Jinny kept right along 1 the road towards nin i iDill Bill Dill says sas that when he woke up it was black dark he hc was covered cred with snow snow and that it was still snowing mowing and blowing blowing blow blow- blOW I I ing and the pung was standing still He says he didn't know no more where he heas was as at than nothing and I couldn't even see sec his hand before him I He felt for the reins but couldn't find t I Iem em then he clucked to Jinny to move mo along but Jinny didn't budge so Bill pulls his whip from the socket and strikes where he Jinny Jinn ought to tobe tobe tobe be in front of the pung pungo but he dont don't strike which surprises him considerable con coir so ne gets out and ami feels Inthe in inthe inthe the dark for Jinny only to discover er that there aint no Jinny there and that she has pulled putted loose loos the shafts and has departed for parts unknown Bills Bill's feelings feelings feel feel- ings ma may better be described d than imd im- im here d- d there herc he was goodness knows where he didn't without no horse and md most froze Suddenly Bill of the jug jus so he took a long pull at it which put new life tire in iu I his veins and 1 leaving the pung where it stood he started off otT afoot carrying the jug with I IM M sa Bill says sas he couldn't sec see it was so dark but he could tell teU when he was in the road ro d. d because when he got sot the road the snow was up to his waist Every little while he would would take another pull at the jug and by and by he got to feeling so good that he said he didn't care whether he ever got home or not nol blizzard nor no blizzard bliz- bliz zard and to make a long story short h h- h finally laid down in the snow hw he be woke up the of the licker had wore off and he was most nigh froze Croze to death a second time and be being lg lly ly sober he begins to wonder wonder wonder won won- der whether he would ever Cr reach Bing Bins ville tille alive or not which sobered him still more and as he set there in the darkness t w with ith th the snow blowing in his I i face he took a oath that he would never I drink another drop of oi licker as long longas as he lived To show that he was in earnest he pawed around until he found his jug and rem in the cork from same poured out what was left of it into the snow Then Bill who all his life has bas be beer bait i sinful and wicked made madea I Ia a brief prayer that he would woul not perish and then again started along the road I knowing not he was drifting Bye and bye he ht seen a light ahead and nd lid iid l light he hc was rejoiced rejoiced rejoiced re re- to find a house beside the road so Bill Dilt rapped loudly on the door Consider Consider Consider Con Con- sider Bills Bill's surprise when Dave Peterson Peterson Peterson Peter Peter- son opened the door and Bill Dill walked in Also consider Daves Dave's surprise A AI As I everybody knows Dave Peterson lives at the foot of Teck's Hill HiJI which i is only a mile from Crom an and being as Dave is a ruttier ruther early riser riser winter and summer he had got up to do his morning chores The hour was 3 a a. a m m. i Dave built up a big fire in the open fireplace where Bill set down to thaw out put and fell asleep Later on on 1 after iter a hearty breakfast Dave hitched up his pung and brought Bill back to I where Bill found his own mare Jinny standing in the harness and still fast to the shafts in front of the stable door All this happened last Since then Bill has been beet telling about town that he considers it was the licker which saved his life ife and that his only regret at present is is that he poured into the snow nearly a gallon pallon of this life I preserver Ve We Bill will go goto to the Co Seat n next and get set j full as usual I |