Show KEPT ONE JUMP AHEAD OF RAIN Veracious Driver Hangs Banos Up Some Record SCole When hen I was a boy S Cole ot of I sander I Y I worked on a farm for tor a man maD by the name or of Caleb lie did a great deal of bu In and ond selling of oC fast horses borses but 1 e was never saUs satis tied fled Ao matter what hat he bought the horses never quite speedy enough for tor him Caleb heard ot of a very fast team in ID the West iVest and Immediately Atthe left by train to try to buy them At the end or of n a week who should drive In but Caleb with the prettiest team ot of horses borses that man ever laid yes eyes on r I could see that Caleb was mighty proud or of them They had only one fault he confided to me- me mea mea a deadly fear or of thunderstorms o 10 one otle could complain on the score ot of theIr speed for they passed anum a num numbe bt be ot of fast trains on the way ay home One day about on an hour after arter Caleb had left to drive to town I saw sav a thunderstorm coming up In the West Remembering what hat he had h told me or of his horses tear I waited uneasily for him The storm came nearer ne and aDd nearer and finally I could heir r the roar or of the rain as It cime In a solid sheet shet n donn the road towards toward me Then I made out Caleb The wag wagon wagon on was as about 10 0 feet ot of the rain as I ran to open the barn doors When I looked a again the horses were ere coming faster than the fastest ex express express press train and the raIn had not g an Inch The lightning how however ever er was flashing nil alI about and In particular about the wagon tires tires completely encircling them They were regular rings or of lIre fire I was as paMI Paralyzed Zed with tear Caleb couldn t drive e in ID the barn like that I Ine ne Lie would set It on fire nut But he evl evi dently saw the danger for he went by the barn like n streak and was not Dot seen for f several everal d ds days s hen he did come back lIe he told me he had kept ahead of the storm until It was spent but In doing eo co he had driven more than miles outside the state I need hardly say MY that Caleb s spa pa slon for fast hor homes es was by now completely satisfied nut But he never sold this team team Pathfinder Pathfinder Maga- Maga Magazine zine |