| Show GARRY THE COLLIE 14 ye sir I 1 am an old man no now and rather ather feeble on ni im pins but I 1 can re memi r when lien a 20 20 mile walk alk loelle to mile out ut and to tittle home v as nothing to me ine you see I 1 w as i i t countin postman and used to take taki the letters letter from a small tow at a to a village I 1 I 1 ing ng I 1 0 mile 0 out ut cv ev r morning As ave e so N e done a aids bit tit of walking A h k ni mv time if it was as all reckoned up thirty fi five e veirs ears a postman at 0 20 o mile miles a da dav I 1 you ha have e indeed I 1 replied and I 1 should hould think ou mut must hae has e met inet m alth ith iian nan adent adventures tires during long lonely alks in a service er ice which has extended oer 0 er so aiani in an s i ars onea one adventure denture or per capi iapi ap I 1 hould sa sav the old OIL ri run in replied and it if it had not been for a very vers dear friend long iong since dead these old e acs cis of mine would N ne never er ha have e seen this thesda dal marth he shouted at the tile same time tittle knocking with the stick on the stone digs of the littly cottage porch where shere we e m v ere seated the suni summons mont was as in tris b i i oung woman ornan mho came cattle from the tile kitchen wiping her vet met h hindi on a coarse brown iron what do ou sant w fait etther fi ther she ask ed plea pleasantly sand just fetch girra Il li kenes ili lase lash land and hii hive e a care with ib it I 1 have it broken for the horld mirtha lif irtha went awa but soon returned avith a small ph on glass wd placed it cotref cire ull full into the old mans hand hind t that sir is the i of the tile deir friend who ullo sas saved ed ms nn life he s ad pass ng tt it to me tile I 1 as mt nit a little surprised to find thit that ithe the dear friend was a large black and tin collie doe doir M being 0 arous ed I 1 begged theold the old man botell to tell me tile the ictor ator and here it I 1 NN hen I 1 had been bibaut 20 20 s vears ears in the postal s arvice begin the old ld man in his quavering voice olce a farmer one aa da made me r present of a colle pup of a pure breed I 1 named him garry As he grew up I 1 him film almost everything evera thing a dog could learn he got so that he could just understand what was mas said as well as an christian when he ava as old enough I 1 took him with me on rn journey journeys and ver eoon soon he got so used to it that he really seemed to think it m vis as as a much hie his dut as mine and when ahen I 1 let him carry the sat chel there was no prouder dog in all england 1 11 I had to be up very iery earl carl in the mornings get mi nn litters it aters as soon as they were ere sorted and beat beaten m destination b bv where I 1 delivered them to the post master in the village Il lage alio ho kept a 9 grocers to shop sloop and lic bc combined it ak as pleasant enough in the summer months but during the winter inter it was a cold dreary walk alk dangerous too in tre dark morning mornings to an aej one not used to the path as one ofie part of it ran along the edge of a deserted stone quarry over which the unwary anuar traveler might earll easily step it if he missed the beaten track but as garry garri and I 1 knew en eveia cry foot of the way ay I 1 never felt the least mis div ga ing no matter how dark the morning except when there had been a heavy fall all of now and thi I 1 trusted to the dog who would walk on ahead B following his hi footsteps I 1 found that I 1 ne nev er lost the path one dark december morning the enow snow laying thick upon the ground and a cold north m vand ind blo blowing ing I 1 started on my usual journey in company with rrt ni v fal fill will frient rh uch nutt ld up tip fit n greatt oat and comforter the mined to picric pierce through ill in tit ea g md ind th hilr about lit fice VA a s wn on tiff with ith lie he ie e lint hat a roul linit of it ol 01 dellol i I 1 all 1 1 to garr ghost inezer w i 1 t hort bark hark and a roil roll in n the snow sno I 1 hen shaking hi fit coit cov he lie settled down don to bilk hi business bud lne I 1 a guide going i t fla ft w in adinie ad ince ot of nit tilt 1 1 he exertion eert lon of 0 tramping through th s ww toon soon set tl if e blood tingling through nu nit t liens lens and on I 1 went feel ing ng as warm and comfortable is i circumstances M would allow after an hourn hour hard m illing willing we me banit to an old garr ai is usual taking it ti e leid I 1 rhe banow was as almost knee deep here ere making it hard work stork for me and anti harder still till for poor barrs I 1 but N we e F on ond at list came cattle to the stump ot of an old tree b which holcli I 1 h knew net that w were ere pat the dangerous part of our lourne bourne the sno snow wa not nearl near so s o deep as we e got further ot 01 which ni immelt ide it much better walking but before we e had gon gone another mile large flike began to fall thick and fast knowing the danger 0 of being caught in a sno enow storm in alfrit neighborhood I 1 indrea increased zed in pace and 1 belted hed on oil with is ith ill po possible sible speed i in ili descending a steep incline I 1 lost footing and fell heas its with in lit right leg twisted tit isted under me tile garn garr was sai b bi tilt m sid side einan in an instant and I 1 tried to rise but there wis nis something the matter w ith m ilg and I 1 fell bick sich and taint faint etli with pain I 1 tried again and agian bit en een em time I 1 made the attempt I 1 suffered dr dreadful pitiful torture Il linly the linah was as broken I 1 what wis w is I 1 to do I 1 I 1 was mas Is ing perfecta hel plis pILS and a enow storm wa a cornI coniing nir in n 11 chere rhe rewis i MIN chance of anybody passing that wai unless I 1 was as and a earce searce made but I 1 might die be fore then I 1 the postmaster at the village to which aich I 1 was A a bound would think the road A was as blocked and that I 1 hid n it t If tempt ed the journey journe if I 1 did not turn up at the usual time and nn n the other hand rn nn wife would mould think I 1 hid got safely to m destination and wa calling salting there until I 1 could make male the return journe in safet what should I 1 do looking helplessly round for some thing that might suggest a means of de clerance lle rance in ees met thoe of all m faithful dog who sit it in the snow snoa look ing into ma face and whining piteously I 1 suddenly it to me rite that if I 1 could bend the dog on oil to the he might bring help but he lie hid never et gone alone and I 1 was na afraid that he would not lea icae e me so it appeared for in lit spite af ot coax ing and thre threes is he ste steadily adil refused to budge f from rom m side As a last resource I 1 took off m eatchel satchel und strapping it firmly on hie his back eald said garry take that to the post office go on bo V If wagging his tall and barking ae as much asio say ay now noa I 1 under Fand rland 1 he darted off through the snow leaving me alone with a leada faintness ere creep ep ing over me and fear at tn heart that I 1 should be found dead the sno enow fell thicker and faster gradually gra duall burning bur ing me for a time I 1 suffered ufer ed dread dreadfully full from ni broken leg and the intense cold jut after awhile a sensation of numbness came oer me ana anal I 1 felt belea a strong desire to go to sleep I 1 battled against this feeling with all m energies knowing hn how dangerous uch such a sleep Is but at last I 1 yielded leaded and knew kness no more 0 0 when I 1 regained consciousness I 1 was aas in a warm bed the postmasters wife wa was holding some beef tea to my lips while sat aab b ms m bedside I 1 K B the doctors aid and antl the kind treatment I 1 receded I 1 wis was soon on the way to reco vr r and then I 1 heard the particular of mj m rescue oft it seem seems that garry after lealnd me rite made the best of his wa iva to the village and presented himself in the postmaster postmasters little shop allbut to 10 seemingly hy almost exhausted with mith the eatchel satchel eti entangled tangled about his legs in uch such a manner as to ciuc wonder as to how ho he got through the enow it all As ou may imagine the appear ance of the dog filled the mind of the pa pat ii with ith aliria it t 11 hi 1 a 3 not enough f r oarn A a t r a relle jellesed sed froin from theli th e I 1 i i t r arid it d into tru strett harking barking 1 I 1 if le it th it if he would mould a follos I ivie 1 the po postmaster at la 1 inderb it fhe rhe alarm isgren si Is ghen t I 1 a duan stout felloe fellows provided 10 ft 1 i 1 hurdle and arid et olit autu outu 61 1 t n OIL t eiraj C guide I 1 b the faithful dot I 1 allm lit found me tr ir and i ou oil kno the tile re reel ret t but the might neer he found me tile if it had nut not bein for or girn I 1 feere va sly el anchel of ajio oer me tile N hen lien he lie led them to the spot and beg begin i n to scratch at the tile is ito and N bilm lit n t as if to lie Is if imm 1 garr and arid I 1 had lid nian a journea Jul rne 0 oer er the u baitie after that and is when lien he hegr arl told old ind feeble and no tio lot ger o 0 ible to alk so far he mould auld at the tile cottage door ind ati ath li me tile oft off nd ind when shen I 1 came cattle back a as aias 1 first to give gle me lite i t welco el coile nc I 1 he lie lias been dead for man nian ears no boand and I 1 ila ent vert er long to 11 ahe to but as long ie is I 1 memory giro girr ill u be forgotten thanking th old min twin for or his stor I 1 walked bick to nn nit quartiers quart tirs at the tile little ildage inn the malle bile of m ahat fiat a noble camp e poor garn garr MIS is of per ie ct obedience at aid d to loe e chat |
