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Show "jbOcfs" STORY. y The "lush" was in his best humor when lie joined ihe evening group at the 'Alfalfa European hotel. lie had enough of morning penitence loft in him to make him grave and even dignified. At the same time he had started in upon an evening accumulation, and had al-i al-i ready become warmed into that friend- ' ly mood which helps one to realize that all men nre brothers. "Good evening, gentlemen," said the "lush," and he said it as if it were the preliminary to nn oration. - ' "Good evening, sir; good evening," re-sponflcd re-sponflcd "Doc" Home, with a slight inclination in-clination of the head. "Sit down and mako yourself miserable," miser-able," said the lightning dentist, who could be entertaining at times. "Come join the feast of reason and the flow of soul," added the book agent, whp could be original, if not entertaining. enter-taining. , s"i" ! "Sure, that's right," added the bicycle bi-cycle salesman. The "lush" seated himself and asked: "Well, gentlemen, what is the subject under discussion?" r "Wo were just talking about the cold weather, and saying that it must bo pretty tough on some people," said the lightning dentist. "There's nothing personal in this, is there?" asked the "lush." 1 "Certainly not," said the Hghtning dentist, laughing. "Doc" Home chuckled, and. the large book agent smiled in a conservative manner, as if lie feared to compromise his professional profes-sional dignity. The bicycle young man was puzzled, lie dfd not see why the laugh came in, so ho settled back in his chair and tried to think it out. The task was long and difficult, for he said but a few words during the remainder of the evening. 1' "I don't think there io so much suffering, suf-fering, now that the weather has moderated," mod-erated," said the "lush." ; "I hope not," said "Doe" Ilorne. "It's a terrible thing to be cold and hungry for days at a time. I can tell you that. If any of you gentlemen ever go through what I did you'll appreciate that fact, too."v - "How's that, 'Doc?' " asked the "lush." ff "I thought I had told you of my experience ex-perience in the winter of '07 and '08, when I was mooso hunting with Gen. Foster up in Cnnada. No? Well, we had a pnrty of gentlemen from New York and Philadelphia with us. The ! weather was bitterly cold, but we were living in the gcnoral's hunting lodge nnd we managed to keep comfortable. One day I was out with a party, and we were up on the Sessikoochce river" "Wat's tho name, 'Doc?'" asked tho ! lightning dentist. ' N, 'Tho Sessikoochce TnO Ian rime, you I know. It means 'lofty pim. ' I had j .two New York gentlemen with u , and ! wo were tracking a moose had been j ' on tho trail for several hours. I crossed J ,tho river on the ire to take up what Bcemcd to bo a new trail, and I got fscp-orated fscp-orated from my two friends, I suppose I was intent on following this trail, and that's why I paid so little nttention 1o tho weather, The first thing I knew ,tho snow" began to fall, and I discovered discov-ered that the sky was overedst, with every indication of a blizzard. Istartcd back along the trail, but in ten minutes min-utes tho air wns filled with blinding siiow, and the vshid was b'c . a , r-fect r-fect hurricane among tho (" O' course it was impossible. tr " vrr1 far in any direction, but llr v. 0-"' thought I was going towar'1 1'.. rvr-I rvr-I knew if Intrude the rherl tr'!.l 51: J the' house all right. DavkiK" - -I had no idea it wns rotate and tlK wind came-from the northwest nnd cut me to tho very bone. I walked and walked and walked, but T didn't come to the river, and then I realized that pt obably I lind been walking away from it all the time. Of course my inclination inclina-tion was to sit down nnd rest, but T knew I didn't dare to do that or I'd freeze to death." "It must have been awful," said the bicycle young man. "Well, it wasn't any pleasure excursion. excur-sion. Fortunately I found a hollow tree where I could coil myself. I got in there and wrapped my fur coat around me, and managed to "keep fairly warm until morning. By that time the wind lind gone down and the cold wns something some-thing intenpe. If I hadn't been so hardy nnd athletic T suppose I never would have lived through it. I got. out, took my bearings from the sun and started out on a "un to find tho river. I had to run to " . 1 from freezing. Of coiwre I still carried my rifle, and I also had a hunting 1 f c, but I didn't have nn.v matches to "tart a fire with. About ten o'clock thai liiorning I shot n rabbit, but of course I couldn't coot it, no I had to content myself with drinking alittle of the blood " The bicycle young man gnsped ontl shivered, vi.lch led "Doc" to say: "You would harfc boon glad to get it." "I should think it would be hard work to run in the snow," said the lightning light-ning dent ,t. "Not if you had snowshoes," said "Doc," with an amused smile. "Oh, I didn't know you had snow- EllOOS." "1 didn't havo.nny when I started, but I mode a rough, pair out of some long twigfl knotted together with a kind pf wiry grass that grows up there. With Hits pair of shoes I could make four milcr. an hour across the snow. 1 Icept at it nearly all day, only stopped to rest twice, if .1 rcmombercorrectly, but 1 was off in my calculations, for I didn't, find the river. It might have been a mile or it might have been 15 miles away I didn't ltnow. When it began to get dark again I'll admit that I was a llttlo frightened. The only thing that had kept me warm all day was my running, and, of course, by thU time, 1 vim more or less tired. Well, sir, it wnv n funny thing. I had cut through, a little ravine and wns starting up the other side, when I saw an Indian In-dian trapper, in, a fur suit, jump behind be-hind a tree about 100 feet ahead, of inc. 1 topped' short and yelled to him: Kerly niohoo!' That means in tho Indian In-dian language, 'Come out.' " "Can you talk Indian, too, Doo?' " asked tho- "lush." "1 knew a few words belonging to tills Cunudian tribo of Maxcboshas, but I nccr gave a thorough study to any Indian language except that of tho Sioux." "Ixj, tho poor Indian," obhcrved tho book agent "What did this mau be-, be-, hind tho tree sa to you?" I WCil, ll Aal!i,u'.i v . mm-vo, uuiu then he came, out said "Doc." 'I saw -that ho had nl fresh tutunc-h, of venison. slung over his shoulder, and I decided to have some of it. I went up to him nnd Continued on pngo 0 |