Show rigged 7 SAIL off SLEIGH A remarkable adventure befell a tolley N D last keeli while the tolley topics did not have a reporter on the spot it secured and printed the story but without those sidelights and highlights that the inci dent seems to demand michael Patt lson a young farmer near tolley was driving home in hia sleigh across the prairie the wind had beaten down the snow the warm wave had melted the top lasers and the cold nights had frozen them there was a crust on the snow that would bear a man s weight the horse remembering the barn was making rapid time tor home when the sleigh went alto a thank you ma am and remained there the horse and shafts went on home Patt lson stood in the road stamped his feet and cussed the luck A fierce wind was blowing in the direction ot home and he had about made up bis mind that it would be fairly easy to walk the ten miles when an idea struck him it was a tile saver Patt lson pulled the sleigh out ot the rut and dragged it out on the pral arte rte the wind was so fierce that the sleigh would almost skid along of itself but Patt lson with two slat and some wire rigged up the lap robe as a sail gave the craft a running start jumped in and was at once slipping across the prairie like an ice boat the only trouble was that there was no certain way to guide the craft but Patt lson hung one leg out behind and did some little steering with it fortunately the wind was in exactly the right or we would have to do some lying about how Patt lson tacked facts compel us to admit however that the wind was right the craft quickly overtook the astonished horse who had now reduced himself to a trot and soon left him hull down in the distance in fact the sleigh and occupant arrived home twenty min utes ahead of the brute and in snub bing up banged into the barn so bard that it frightened the cow fyhen the hero of this tale told it on the streets of tolley the Tolle yane started a little and looked surprised some of them whistled softly and looked meditatively away at the horl zon others doubted journal 7 |