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Show as VENJURERS VENTURERS ' CLUB , BIINES UNES ALINES FROM THE LIVESY LIVESYs LIVESYPEOPLE LIVES LIVES"Down s pEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI YOURSELF ! "Down Down " the Rivej River Rive , Road " , , , .0 0 . EVERYBODY ELLO gere Here re s a yarn that packs thrills enough to last throughI throughla through ) " looct it did for Mrs Mr Tnrnttiv ) TUIiirfJ TUIiirfJr TUIiirfJY ' i At At least , It ? ; Dorothy Murphy r la laBent Bent o I e eN Y 11ght ! Nt NtYAt N YAt y Many years ago , Dorothy was living hvmg on onn , ! mthe 'IJn IJn ! ' ; the Chestnut Ridge fudge section near the little httle town townt townver town"r townr m " She set out to drive to the raIlroadv Plains , N Y raIlroadthree railroadoa railroad railroadwgh t she'don v ver r three mIles 8Wa away } , and before she got back backshe'd she'd shed she'dt ' wgh on oa ongh adventures to last a lifetIme lifetImeen lifetimeKS trough gh t en February 1914 Dorothy was just lust 18 atwas as m 1Il in , yearsfir years - ffer yearsffer fir " , . .aunt aunt . aunt had been spendmg spending two weeks with wlth the famIly familyr familyItwas familytwasshe r ras she wholri \ vho , hOIl1 i Dorothy drove to the train tram on that coldruary cold Itwas " t eve111Ilg evefung - , i T AutomobIles AntnTnnhllp ? ! weren't werent wprpn't wprpnt ' ' so en common nrvmr nrvmrii > -ii- ii - iir - > r > then thentDorothy thent tlioy . ruary ruaryevefung y yeve111Ilg ' "Dorothy Dorothy " tDorothy Dorothy drove was a surrey , , drawn b3 b ; } an old , , halfd half half'I ' t 'I I d horse named Browmee Browniee Brownie Browme " e tram ( jam pulled out of Dover Plains Plams at 6 45 pm p m , , andthy andhyturned and { thy hyturned turned the horse around and headed for home Al AlIt Aldy Alntvias dark-a dark a dark - a moonless , , starless night mght The dy dyit [ It Itas \\as as uas \ waylay way d1lay d1layalong layalong lay along a steep rough , , unfenced country road that thatbed thatbed thatled bed for nearly three miles before it reached ChestnutI Chestnute Chestnutge Chestnut upg , e ; On 00 one side of it lay thick woods covering covermg an up upslope upslope g ge upErf slope of the ground and on the other was a steep de- de defly deiii de-nT de nT - - fly iii For part of the distance , that declivity dechvlty straIghtenedu.o straightenedns straightened u.o uo ns : . I a , tall ta71 ( ,11 11 , cbff cliff And there thcre was not nott not ! ! ng to prevent prevcnt a carriage fromal'er fromover from fromaver ( aver al'er aler over ' II it , , it II rf It approached too close to its edge7tat edge edgeHit Hit 7tat t tfas \ was \fas fas Dorothy s first thr 1I-the 1I the 11-the 11 II - the prospect of driving drlvmg over that road roadd roadBi d rlc rk . . . She hadn t thought darkness would fall so soon that mght night nightthe nightitems 1e the ! ; tias " , as scared st stiff I of that cl cK ft ff As she drove along and the dark darkd darkdeepened darkjttpnied ( d deepened ned she couldn t cee ; ee her hand before her face and she gave gaveea gavee gave.tWtSi'ttem gave.tWtSittem gavetWtSittem . ea e a rpe fr'e fre ! ' rem hopmg hoping that h s instincts rnstmcts mstmcts would keep him Kum on the roadDorothy roadDorothy road ' Dorothy Felt the Wheels Slipping Shppmg Supping Over the IdgeThey EdgeThcy : Edge Idge EdgeItcy Itcy They Thcy were coing gomg going along the top of oC that cliff elliI and all was gOlDg going gOlDgell goingrtlL coins'itfl coinsitfl ' rtlL , ell , An3 And lln'n llnn thcn then ' all of a sudden suddcn Dorothy felt Celt the wheels whecls slipp shpp ne ng ngtrer ngsuet netir tir trer suet the Kit6 edge I0011 Poor * halr hall hail blmd bllDd blind OId old Brownie ro\V1lle ro V1lle \ had tailed failed her He lie He'inns ? X Xf f 4 4'tf 'tf tf ' a av v 1 rh rhtt tt . 'inns inns IIInS urns ' were chmc achmg aching and her hcr head was swimming- swimming swunmmg swimmingShe - She heard Brownie Browniewander Browniewander wander ander offlad off offtaj taj lad { rune One gone (00 00 too ( close to the edge The surrey gave a sudden lurch lurchId lurchsad lurchill Id sad Dorothy was thronn thro\\n thro n thrown \ out into mto space ' SITS Says Dorothy I 1 clutched clutchcd at the air as ft it slid shd past me melile mehie meH lile hie : ( l I a drown ng n ; man clutches at straws \ BIy 1\ly 1 ly My hands grabbed some somebushes somebashes somehshes bushes bashes growing ( rowme out irom from the side of oC the cl cliff I and I 1 hung on foraI forii for aI ii ] II I was worth And tl II ere I 1 was between earth and air an and andtnthnoth and.liUmoth andliUmoth . Wtthnoth tnthnoth as ng to save me Crom from ( rom death on the rocks below but my pre precanons premoss precanons canons moss boll hold bold on those shrubsDoro1hy shrubsDorothy shrubs shrubsDorothy Dorothy Doro1hy says that t me has no meaning meanmg under such circumstances circumstancesnunutes circumstancesminutes circumstancesunmitcs nunutes minutes seemed like years Her arms were ach ng and her headI1VlInm1ng headswimming head ' ' tMiimlcg I1VlInm1ng swimming She could hear Bro\ Bro Brot Bromie Bro"DIe \ "DIe DIe nre " and the surrey \ wandering andermg off offlbedarkness offl'edarkness offUtiiarijiess lbedarkness l'edarkness ledarkness ' Evidently EVldeflty Evidetltly ! the old horse had pull puU'd puUd pulled ' d the surrey back onroad onroad on ' road alter after she had been becn thrown out For a terrible moment she sheto sheto she"li sheli " to ) the bushes and then her fingers encountered a branch of a small smallgrowing smallpwas growing OWIDg along the side of the chffShe cliffShe cliff chff cliffShe She cautht caught It with one hand-thcn hand thcn hand-then then hand - then the othcr-and othcr and other-and other other - and drew her herIII herielh hernil III ielh ! up over the cliff cWJ to safely saCety safety She lay on the ground for Cor a whileIct whilet while whileck Ict t ck and niwcalc weak Then having havmg reco\ reco recovered recoercd \ ercd ered a little httle she got up and andIl1unhlcd anddumbled andiliinblcd Il1unhlcd dumbled to the road Biomie BrOWiUe Brownie roadBiomie roadBrOWiUe roadBrownie and the surrey were nowhere in sight Dorothy started startedg startedt startedMS g t toward toI\ard toI ard toaard \ home You d think she d had enough adventuring adventurmg for foreightbut fornightbut fortipt-but fortipt but eight-but eight but night-but night - - the b g thrill hadn t even started She had only walked a asteps aiteps a"Pi aPi steps iteps " 'hen hen when " ' hen she heard a sound that froze her blood in rn her vems-the vems the veins-the veins vemstheg veinstheg veins - the 8 g ini and yelping yelpmg of dogsWild dogs dogsr r Wild Dog Pack Pursues Terrified DorothyDogs Dorothy , Oors Dogs don dOD t sound so dangerous-but dangerous but dangerous - but Dorothy knew better A Ashort A"ort Aort short beenkilled " time tune before hefore she had seen the body of a boy who had beenand been killed and partially eaten by these same dogs They were wild wildacllnalsdescendants acllnals-descendants acllnals descendants maslets n a.ls-descendants a.lsdescendants a.ls als descendants . - Is - descendants of dogs who had run away from Crom their masIn mas lets 1110 to hve live In the wGOds woods and had reverted to type Every once onceIn woodsIi In towline oncetowline J whJle in Ia those days packs of that sort appeared In the woods woodsYa.rloDS In Ii InJ Ya.rloDS YarloDS various . - " places y * ta throughout LIiruil the country And they still do m in inMid Mid * ' " Midoutlying OBllyuit ODtlying outlying regions regionsA A ' ' , 'mgle mgle imgle regionsimgle ' , m , Ie dog S would run at the s ght of a man ma but in a pack and in indle inmiddle Infflinilt middle of nf the , . . . . . - . . . . . . . , , i-- i iii - - - . - - . . i-i i iiti - attack attackat -t--i- t i - * tii - - - /dle dle / WInter when they were half starved they would i- i iDorothy 01 at atanyone . anyone - " ' " ' Doroth Dorothy ' knew all too well what would happen if ii this thisCaught thiscaught thisrautht Caught and"I andI up with her She turned stumbi stumbl ng into rnto the , " woods oods and andIUlIil andusig . usig ! " ' " she found IUlIil treeIt a tree It nibbegan Vias was * "a a " a tree v a . , th a low fork of its branches-one branches one branches - - one she could cl mb nib mbgan mb"n mbn began commgtr comingto gan " puhing puhmg herself herseif up into rnto it The yelp ng of the pack was coming commg tr to . and na nearer She wasn t a minute mmute too soon She had hardly- hardly hardlyed hardly hardlyQa hardlylnto yelpingctarhng . - yelpmgr e ed " lnto Into the lower lQwer lgwer branches when they were on the spot yelpmg yelping yelpmg"t " Qa Qae ctarhng r " -"t "t t - .ng ng . at the bottom of the tree h theh "Ba Ba " there " "re re " I 1 was she says perched in an the tree while the thelick theiger thettr lick sick turnsick lI1Ignd iger : maddened addened brutes brute howled and snarled below I still tUfn turn turn sickaid worstpart aid aidcold ; cold all over overhen \\hen hen when \ 1 I thmk think of that moment The worst worstrOIn part partof . \ a.r\oU a.roU a.r ar oU a.roUcold . of - it - 11i was that 1 I famt faint or so numb numbe rOIn trim numbtrim , was afraid 1 I d grow weak or " "aa aa th thwas ule the e cold ' " ' 'I I ' that I d fall Call out I 1 knew what would happen happcn thenWith then thenlJvltll lJvltll IouWith Leftgotu , With the First rust Streaks of Dawn the Dogs Left Leftller Iou ! gotu t saf safr after ller r hour Dorothy clung to that tree trct ' wondering wondermg why her folkss folksr folks folksdo r " . mks _ ! . S her " er ( ' r andcome uuu and cometh come a lookini lookml l oo k ! ? lor f for or her hcr ncr nor dnor Wondering l'Vonaerlug lVonaerlug ' w why wur wur"u"r th they "u"r ur " ey " u d . dn do . t . . _ . oo ! ? or ing SOrn somethin something homeher " "Kilning Kilning " e Ing g was i \ rong tong when the 1 I orse and buggy came homed home homeig he hee her d In She didn t know that old Brown e a turning completely completelyhack completelyback backg tS struggles g to t haul a the surrey back on the road had wan wanfoUts hack back ato foUts . , ? to 0 town and - was . . at spend - , . . - . -ig ig ng - t the he night mght m rn in an open 01 horse shed shed'D shedwo ' th "ought ought " o Ought ght with relativese4 relativesas relatives relativesUK Dorothy had dec ded dad to spend the n ght wo 'D D ' , , a ao aOught as he e often d d so they d dn do t worry And all that mght night she sheAs e4 i05 i05the the e tree racked by the cold and harried by tcrrlble terrible fears fearslIank fearsd As th the the e first streaks In the sky the dogs dogshe lIank d dogstali of gray appeared tali k kthe hecaO safethe UK he the ! caO name ? oQ _ If Ife through ' " "UEh UEh " the woods and nd when she thought It was safe safelatJilerlll sate"a satea ' latJilerlll ' " - down " lnd and ! crawled to the road She couldn t walk but abr a aihnitht ihnitht br brr ' 01Ight debt anddebt r t-"own t "own own ? driving e to the mlllt m.llt mllt mills . depot P04 fo'md fomd Cound found ' her w m in the road and andDo nDd.t1 nDdt1 " hrlvlng her "er er " er homebut home hOlIte . Do Doer h hOlIterothy buth lint hut but sahut hutsh but buts butsays tobut butate rothy sh shYS s ate li "e e " e sa says ' * ys 'he he she ' s written tten th s story tor for us other adventurers toe to , adds Usually I don t think thmk of it if I can help Itmeleal.ed itReleabed it < ( KcIcaUd meleal.ed melealed Releabed . by Western Weslern Newspaper Newspoper Union Unlon ) , |