Show a THE JAWS OF DEATH WE camped lit in 1 I carion canon by the Nort northern horm MM ickes when we e got to talking of 0 cowards and of stories that men hall had been so 0 badly ila y that their italy hair tonica arld white aad ad harry riya expressed the abo opinion the that lie we one only a terrible ter coward co could d by tiny ny bo be frightened to that extent our gu guide ide nod Albi whitman timan ono one of 0 tho the bray oat nt men man in n danger I 1 ever know laughed be as hurry harra gave bli bla oP opinion inton e bee cohere here harry honald lie aalde weve been on tho the plains and in tho the mountains together a 1 great mat dual deal and you on ought to know ms me by thita tah timo time do you think I 1 lira n nn an art abul in coward ord V T youl yoal cried harry 1 I should say bay not DOW ned ked lifted bin hl cap ond anti displayed lilt his hair hail which was wai us gi white as tho the driven mow abow take a good look lit at it boys boy ho he said that hair WM walk walto by fright neither more nor bior lew leak now whitt what have you yoa got to say nay about ilk that L harry 11 ive only got to say bay ill th lathat that the lh thing that could frighten nod ned whitman in that thai way in worth to 0 o just braco brace your belt it tor for tho the yarn baid aid harry BI at he crowded 0 eded tie the tobacco into bin hl bowl mid and 1 leaned oft ned back to smoke and irton firo fire way away ned neddo we want to hear beat it ILI a I 1 ifould reckon it was wai fifteen years ago go said ned quietly that I 1 was waa in lathe the mountains moun taini up north ot of here having FL bunt all by myself I 1 arn m a groat great follow for or solitude 01 ol anyhow omit it il want anything now new for TOO to be off on B hunt alone I 1 knocked CC over r three antelopes ond and got a bight of 0 old eph grizzly but ho he was wan in company with hit his rate mate find and I 1 was no such tool fool ni as to drove draw abbad a bead on him I 1 know just when to lot a grizzly bear havo have hui him own way and thil tacy w ont touch ft a man unless they etro it aw fully hungry or ho be inca to drive th i away from most moat eph has ha found himself a 0 when ben bo be has haa A cub with him so I 1 just juit tramped along ono one wily way am AD tho the grizz grizzlier grizzlies lies took another and when a lou dig caine on I 1 was near A cave in tho the rock whore whon I 1 mount meant to stay it was waa a place that I 1 found one day and I 1 hod had motif mail a sort ort of camp of it ft whenever I 1 pawed passed the nat night up that wy way therein DR a hat flat rock outside out Bido red and whai I 1 lit a firo and broiled some borne antelope stank and had made a square ii ire moal meal I 1 calculate to smoke ft a pipe or two and then them bunk in I 1 but before I 1 did it I 1 throw threw a or two to into tho the core and looked around to a a that there wn n a AO nothing la ia it 16 and than hon bell my smoke a out UL after that I 1 crawled in find and heaped beeped up atones to as before tho the he holo so eo that nothing could me and rolled myself up in my blanket and was soon in the land of dreams 1 I told you yon tho the place waa w no ft a small one but I 1 forgot to tell fell you that in in one corner comer dioro are was wa a sort of holo hole about three foot feet acront wh choro a enog 1 of water ter ran down a sloping ro rock Z nd out kaa of coall tight I 1 know how ow deep it waft we and the fact is ia I 1 never no er investigated tory close only I 1 I 1 know n 0 w the hole was w there cut as 1111 I 1 esy ay I 1 got to dreaming and the idea camo came into my bond bead that I 1 was full fall lug leg unit and I 1 hedt woke and realized I 1 was going down dom a greasy rook rock hat flat on my buck back with cold water upla abling around roo me tile liko a of lightning light t bufore I 1 got half way down I 1 realized that I 1 was wall really falling and by tho the timo tire 0 I 1 got to the bottom 1 knew what tho trouble 0 w wm a boy BOA I 1 had bad rolled around in ia my sleep ana and to fallon lion into that cursed hole bole feet first I 1 reached bottom at last not hurt barb in the least and managed to 10 get on my feet raid and out of the water as ai badly demoralized in all no a you yon over taw saw in your lito life 1 it was as darker than to phot in fact it seemed roomed to 0 mo me I 1 could almost fed tho the dark now and 1 was aa 0 so o completely turned round that I 1 know winch which way I 1 hall had como come I 1 and v n lists hata more I 1 daro dare to move for fear ear I 1 would fall into another holo bole deeper than thin ono one was I 1 you may safety reckon id hate given a thousand thoua and doti doli IBM just judit then to know inow exactly whore tho the holo hole baj as I 1 had bad como come out of but when I 1 found N it a as 3 I 1 so might I 1 gb t persapa per hapa it follow that I 1 could go back the same mo way I 1 come came L hut it w aint auy to find by any lu in the first it was wa dark as aa pitch and I 1 was wa afraid to go feeling around tor for tho the hole bolo and I 1 could safely calculate ealo ulato that it bo far from a h a arod feet above mo luo by the time it hod had la taken ken to coma dovid bo 80 I 1 just nat crawled out ot at the water and mt dor doan n on ill the cold soonest and I 1 give you my word I 1 could feel eel my all 11 over oter my beal bead I 1 was tho the worst soared comina ramm WILY in fourteen counties bulk dot do to fuel fool eo I 1 crawled round and found that the water sater ran in in a little hill rully it had bad morn out in tho the rocks aud and after kir bild I 1 found tho the hole bole where it 1 caroo pouring oat 1 my head ap in the bolo bole and tried to climb but as soon goon as I 1 put my toot foot on tho the rock it wont went out from rom under mo me as 01 it it was a greased and I 1 to tumbled M if d down d again I 1 tir tried it a awen times but I 1 room noon found that nobody could get up that way it m will As too slippery dippery and lot I 1 knew I 1 nag in a bad trap rap nod and finding a dry place I 1 lay down and thought I 1 would wait until morn mom lug ing mail then MR mabo be with tho the light I 1 might do something that was wa tile tho longest night I 1 over priss pasa ed I 1 tried to sleep deep but it be b do done for or it if I 1 went off ob into a doie id wako wake with a start mart and think I 1 wua was leiling sliding lii ling down that left again but at lost I 1 judged it must to be morning and I 1 put my hend bond up that flint chatt abaft and could see ice a little daylight dalight but not much whit I 1 did nee MO mo me a bit it I twant loss ida than a hundred foot feet to the top rod and the th slope wat was about dg agrees rees and aad whom I 1 felt the iho bottom of the th rook with my hud hand it wa like glass ila 1 I ibea I 1 wd laid down on my back in thea iho abaft and got my bandit haidn and feet fact braced on tho the upper part and began to work nork up I 1 rot 0 t maybe twenty filet fact and began to hunk k I 1 could fetch it when my foot aila 11 bcd a bad I 1 went iowa down aguin liko like a shot out of is a gun and slid out into tho the cave can on oil my bock back it viru AA awful but it was toy ray only chance and I 1 went at it again and thin time I 1 got b up elli maybe sixty fete feet nod got cot a braco for my toes and took a act choul I 1 wriggled up tip ten feet fact more and took rest rent I 1 began to reel feel good all over inter it a maybe forty feet to tho the top now pud null if I 1 found fondd overa thing all right id got thero there after a whilo while but parda ILs ll 11 avi awful ful to toll hot but w hen ben I 1 mado imade the next neit trial the piece of at lirot no under my boeji to broko broke oil off and away I 1 went again I 1 naji 1194 clean used up now and for half an hour bour I 1 sat on tho the rocks rock half tempted to t V civo 1 mytle Y elf up loot but an aa you all know 7 iye pot FM at a will of my own and I 1 iopa AU hound bound that the iho abaft Rhoul shoula dut tet beat mo me it if I 1 could conid awill it 1 I worked my way up inch by inch until 1 I 9 gob 1 W L think tun ill foot fool of tho the top to and thel thelo o I 1 black I 1 hanging bakaL ring on with fill tooth teeth and toe to naun nalls and here bete I 1 found tho the toughest part of the work tho the upper part ot of tho the place win was 11 nearly ly an smooth at AS the lower and ad it was A almot I 1 m ot O t I 1 darn aaro to loans vav raw t r A cowan it got fd lorin lorf tora a a alo fl 11 ch once I 1 we trip 1 I but the arft alme lie filial d it I 1 n R little und 0 nir acir ia ox ato the bottom again a and m I 1 kovi aliat 1 t that I 1 ill wa a it doon OW 0 rl I 1 I 1 min f I 1 I 1 ats it IT r should bao had I 1 the O A to arfi 1 agan As 08 far as a I 1 was iraa no noa w wa 1 I was wa C chiuco allf neilt to if a tuo a water wall tria as coll col l III ico icil and I 1 bad ad bleik working lit in it for a long fmc how long lon 1 I ili rt ilat a know for I 1 was ui in no do condition to I 1 measure tune ll lk I 1 ono one und and jolt felt of the wt abaft rall got hold of it a point of rork rock above my iny lead head nod drew dealt myself tip op nod gained three feet more then I 1 I 1 stopped out of breath and took another rest rent before I 1 tried it ogal ngali n but I 1 find and anything I 1 could go gt t i hold old of to help me farther up and I 1 felt my strength going I 1 knew know noil Aall thatis that ft I 1 got ca out of if tharo ere meet I 1 was fono cone band and as a I 1 WM was going to give alvo tip in ia despair I 1 felt fell come thing brash against my face and I 1 caught hold of it 01 dy by george georgel I 1 loyal boya it wan wait tho the end call of my lariat abat I 1 had thrown on the iho noor floor when I 1 crawled into anto the erva CITO and aad that id taker w with th mo me when I 1 rolled into tho the hole bole I 1 vi rays carry a lariat with ino inc you know A bet i f it wall waa fust fast somewhere had got carbt on a stone or anything of that kind T I 1 pulled on it ft easy cuy at firlit findt and then a little border nod and boys boyn tl vw taut I 1 gave it A good tug to satisfy myself that it wan wait rt solid and then up I 1 went md and tum bled a oot t on tho the floor more dead than alive but bat I 1 stay there a minute more ilan was needed to got get my breath but when I 1 went to tako take tho the stone away icorn irom tho the front of tho the cavo carol I 1 saw aw what had bad say ed cd roc me tho the end of the iho lariat with wilh the knot on it had got cot caught between two big bi atone as aa 1 I plod filled them up dp tied and tha taid tand ahn only paved my life for when I 1 looked ht t the pace afterward I 1 raw MW that no man imn coal could hito have climbed that loaf last seven feet for or ib a was be smooth na As clma hon ban I 1 met some of the be boja a lexi day clay they told roe me my hair WAR waa white al ai d 1 no it w ann an I 1 are am a coward 04 0 oil I 1 it KM tho the fright of that thai night which do i the work rass tho the bottle lly illy throat threat feels baked and rny my heart Is in in my mouth aben ben I 1 think ot of it 16 now and if you b h the lima KUDO box you will a ill bo be as sear a I 1 i ft as harry has changed his hill opinion and that even ia a bravo man may bo be our roond century |