| Show GLORY TRAIL A TEST BY SNOW I r tr How Iron Man Won Alaska's Greatest Dog Race c 4 I 1 4 Fi a 4 t 4 e t Johnson and his team finishing at Nomo Nome My lUr greatest satisfaction in the 1910 race was that I brought in all aU the dogs alive CHAPTER IV By Jack Jungmeyer My ly second dog doc K gave vo out when within with with- in il fifty lUtr miles of Nome It said laid John i Johnson comin coming coining in his to the finish of the worlds world's greatest dog dOJ raco race across n miles udlea le of Alaskan wilderness It looked like litre my JOy team was going I Ito to pieces un under lr tho the terrific strain Two dogs were on the sled and aud several ot of the others wore oro slowing down This was wasat wasat as asat at I 1 began to push the sled helping sled helping the bravo fellows in tho the traces Four of the other teams had bad already dropped out onto Only Ramsey Scott Scotty A ALen Allen Al AI len and I hung on driving ing like tho time devil levU with our last strength Allen AUen was about four hours behind behin while Ramsey had three hours to male make up at nt II But Bitt hours can be bo quickly lost ost or gained gaine at the finish of a race rago like liko this I L was uneasy uneas Again I t tried to spell Kolma the leader eador but hut ho stopped the team until I bad bail n again agnia nin given i n him tho the leadership I I It t just seemed to take talt the lifo life out of hun him to be taken from tho the front 1 J know how bow fro ho felt feU My ly own strength was goine fast The sweat seemed to draw tho the life out of mo tao mOl cold as aJ it HRS W Wo We 0 were now making only fi 0 five n miles ilcI an hour My Iy will kept saying sayin to t the tho e body You must go o on ou J but the time muscles said saia 9 lets let's rest And that was my y fi fight bt o over or r those t os last J st fifty miles miles between between the bo body a alid d the willAnd will And Ana it have hac been too to o must with the dogs f If Remember T r had hall not slept at all no now for over seventy hours And And what made it harder on me Inc and he the do dogs s was t the tho e joking of tho watchers at the tIle telephone relays The The- would Woula tell I me mc that Ramsey and Allen Alien wore paining gaining fast ast I did dill not know they were joking r thought I was going oin to lo loso o after all nU PW The J reame ulain ninin hell holl Morning camo the came the glisten Eliston of snow in m my half blind eyes Wind Vind and sun had tanned me black as a a. native nativo Theair Tho The air seemed like ice ico in iii my lungs 1 I. think I blubbered once or twice You see CO my mJ dogs an and I had run runas runas as far hs across s the state of at Kansas without it out sleep and with almost no rest or food It wasn't boys boy's play And And then wo camo came in in sight ht of Fort Davis four miles out of Nome Here a cannon is fire fired when tho the first racer in ei sight ht People began be an to crowd up op so 80 thick I 1 could hardly get et through Tho The roar of the gun u stiffened me mo u up for tho the final spurt It was for me an anay anan and ana n my ay scrubs Column Kolma looked back at nt mo me mOl his tongue out his blue e eyes cs w wide de with exhaustion And Anil T I veiled cUed at nt him hint And so ISO we wo camo caine Gown the stretch a little of the tho heart still left in in us 1 looked at nt my dogs and aud I felt sort of solemn I had brought them then all in au ali alivo ye 0 They had all all all' been willing to die tHe for mo the ma-the tho poor fellows who di didn't n t even kno know what It was all a about out And An then then wen well then they hung some flowers around my neck nu and patted the dogs s and swore at nt us us nice nico bragging bra bragging brag brag- ging in oaths Wo We had bad made it in in seven seven- cven tour ty-tour hours and fourteen minutes minute l. l Ramsey came in second ft And ind ADd by and by bj Scotty Scott Allen came camo plu plugging in with his hii main mala- great gre shaggy ri mutes I I 1 hardly knew him hint his taco face was wasso 80 so gaunt hi his voice so hoarse e. e Youre tho the to II toughest tuna man I ever saw on tho the trail John Jobu he ho said sticking sticking stick sticking ing au out t his hand The Tho Iron Man Man 11 didn't quite finish the story Bill Brady Brad hi his pal con con- eluded it H John John ho he told me blubbered like a baby when they hUIl hung the hor horseshoe around his his neck and patted the dogs doAs So we wo know knew he hail had a heart even even if there theto isn't a man Ii living liing n who ho cm can run it out of him Tho 0 End i |
