Show KEPT ONE JUMP AHEAD OF RAIN veracious om driver hangs up some soine record when I 1 was a boy nathaniel S cole of ly lysander a ander N Y relates I 1 worked on a farm for a man by the name of caleb stimson ile he did a great deal of buying and selling of fast horses but lie he was never satis ned fled no matter what he bought the horses never seemed quite speedy enough for litin him caleb heard of a very fast team lu in the west and immediately left by train to try to buy them at the end of a week who should drive in but caleb with the prettiest team of horses that ninn man ever laid eyes on I 1 could see that caleb was m mighty eighty proud of them they had only one fault lie he confided to mea deadly fear of thunderstorms no one could complain on tile soro snore of their speed for they passed a number of fast trains on the way home one lay day about tin an hour after caleb had left to drive to town I 1 saw a thunderstorm coming up tip in the west remembering what he had told me of his horses fear I 1 waited uneasily for him the storm cattle came nearer and nearer and finally I 1 could hear the roar of the rain as it came in a solid sheet down the road towards me then I 1 made out caleb the wagon was about 10 feet ahead of tile the rain aratri as I 1 ran to open the barn doors when I 1 looked again the noises horses co coming ming faster than the fastest express train and the rain had not gained an inch the lightning however was flashing all about and in 1 particular about the wagon tires completely co 11 ap lately encircling them they were ere regular rings of fire I 1 was paralyzed with fear caleb drive in the baro barn like ile ie would set it on fire file dut but lie he evidently saw the danger for he went by the barn bain like a streak and was no not t seen for several days when helid come hack back lie he told me he lind kept ahead of the storm until it was waa spent but in doing so he lind had driven more than miles outside the state I 1 need hardly say that calebs passion for fast horses was by now completely satisfied but he never 8 sold old this team pathfinder finder magazine |