Show L OUR PIONEERS PIONEERS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE A r Continued From Last LaEt Week Do come In and ant share Bh our suP sup- supper suPper per Mother said Why ou ou must to t-e nearly frozen The two men who introduced themselves as s Mr Murdok Murdock and Mr Jones readily accepted Its It's eaSy to see ue why you folks are here bere Mr urd i 1 said as se e were eating but ours Is Js a sadder story Lory A man about twenty I believe has been lest lost front from the logging camp nt at the west end of Strawberry Valley It seems that aU all of ol the men with the exception I of this boy and his father had tone gone down for Christmas a hadI few fe I 1 days dars earls earh The boy wanted to togo togo toCo go with them but his father said no he d better wait walt and they d both go home together So Bo soon alter everyone e else had gone cone the boy and his father sent nent ent up father the timber to nork The boys boy a s ta- ta fa the ther kept watching him and he saw that t the kid yas nas as so disappointed pointed he couldn t cn c ork so 0 finally the man said Listen son they cant can t be far You grab crab your our things thing and run along with sith n ith them the Tell Mother I III 11 be home the day before Christ Christmas 1 mas Of Of course cour the boy sas as tickled I to death and he hurried down dO the road after the others Well no I one cne knew that that boy was lost until his father got home at Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas I mas Oh there s a big ble I posse came up from the Heber ec tee sec section Uon tion and now all the men up here e hate hl left their camps to look for him but I m afraid it afraid It looks bad bad- bad and his olee trailed oft off into a thoughtful silence I There s to two Men nen George and AU Alf Billings snowed in at the westend west westend end of the valley Jones told westI us usand usand and they thi think k now It must ha hate been the boy that they taw say com Ini com com- comIng corn Ing this vas say a with sith a light pack on his back He must e must e got cob confused and turned to the right instead of the left o er where the roads meet The Billings men had taken refuge from the storm in n Q nearby pat patch h of willows s so to the boy didn t see them They The thought It Jt mas as just Justa a trapper and didn t pay pa much I Ithem attention to him When our m meal was finished se e stood o lt outside ide of the wagon and looked carefully over 0 cr emery e cry ery Inch andI I within our range ran rani e of vision hoping we might see something to leadus lead leadUs Us its to the lost Jost bo be boy Suddenly Mr Murdock pointed Look I Three horses why Its your our men meni You say they they've been gone the rite hours Why Vb they aren arent t three miles s away awai awa We could see them then climb climb- climbIng climbing climbing ing a bare wind blown wind blon ridge try try- Ing trying Ing to get around a thirty thirty foot thirty foot snow drift at the head of ei the can can- canon canyon can cannon yon non on We learned later that Jones and Murdock followed ed our three friends until nightfall before o them Where are you ou going Murdock Mur- Mur MurI Murdock Mur Murdock dock asked them The men replied I that they ere were headed for the saw saw- sawmill sawmill s mill w I mill at the west lest cst end of Straw Straw- Straw i ibern bern berm Valley Vaney i I Well i y ou re ra lost Mr Jones en en- en there them You are now inthe in inthe inthe the very cry ery south end of tho the Valley Mr I erson 1 erson was nas v as a headstrong long long life mountaineer and it was not easy to convince him that the they I had mistaken their direction True he said it had been Impossible to toI find the road in the storm but I perhaps the pursuers were sere the ones that were sere ere lost Not likely said Murdock We happen to live In this country Furthermore I Im m not enJo enjoying sit sit- sitting sitting sit sitting ting here in this snow storm Now WE ie e a followed you men ten miles mUes to tell sou OU that youre you re lost last It Its s sa a terrible night and we were re fotr fOLoT miles mUes from wood and shelter We Were re going back b k you ou 11 can do as yOU Jolty folly Berl ell please s With that hat they wheeled i their horses and turned back toward the Umber timber Very close behInd followed three lucky 0 t men It was late tate when they the reach d reach pd d the timber but they managed I to get themselves something to lat eat before lying down on their few fw I quilts Morning found the awak- awak awakening awak awakening ening men covered coveted with six lix I inches or of fr fresh snow Our three men sill sill- will in followed the directions given them by Murdock and set out to- to toward ward sard the sawmill yet twelve t away i To be continued |