| Show the fur carriers adventure DV BY W BERT fosta IN 1912 by dally daily story pub co cc I 1 I 1 this yere maine r cad ld the old man who eat sat tipped lack ack in a crazy armchair on the shady elde side of the house bucking sucking the blackest of corn cobs this yero yere maine ain aln t what it its a cracked up to bo be for game nowadays but you tellers from rome come up her git or er crack at er jim buck er two an think ouro oure havin sport talk hun huntine tint lie snorted enor ted and Chov ler who likes to jolly the natives alone along and could get more information out of a well weep sweep than most men can from a college professor offered the old set tier hie his bag of 0 I 1 cut plug and at once they two began to get chummy oh of coarse vaa joachin po achin I 1 heard beard the old fellow nay say and he sart emphatically you was askin the Alle gash waters them be good huntin an territory wen I 1 was younger how ilow take it thirty year ergo even twenty year baca putty now an good gond dabin an there a rome game bu I 1 took evenly seventy bottor pelts out er that trine string of upper ponda ponds in four weeks one winter an otier oter skins waa was fifteen dollars tatai days no I 1 gasn t makin a business of joachin po achin I 1 had a shack up there an ae as I 1 say in fr ft weeks I 1 salted down them seventy skins but I 1 only set six traps and t have been there to tend them only we had a monstrous run of bad weather an I 1 cotilde t tend to reg lar business I 1 was a fur airier I 1 smuggled the pelts through for other fellers tellers as you say ar IZI IT that very cintr long cr er bout february and I 1 knowel thero there was a big storm duo due mighty quick I 1 hit bit the thing at I 1 reckoned was the closest call I 1 ever had for a fow tow moments biste miste I 1 relly thought old gabriel had got his cornet auld tul J up for me an no ml mistake an wen w en yo come ter agger on it there ain aln t sech a great dt di trence frence twixt gettin killed outright an bein scared most ter tar de athan that last lasts a what happened ter me m thal trip this yere happened jest attar I 1 got that run of otter I 1 was tellin ye of seventy skins ev evry ry one of en em beauties I 1 picked up a big sled log loaa I 1 an when I 1 darted started up churchill la ie early in tho the mornin an my was 11 A 6 4 A stretch 0 black open wate ri wiped out 0 sight by A bresh p int the old sled creaked along over tho the ice as though she felt the weight eight hut but there wan t at y snow to speak of on the fiver river so to she run kinder easy an I 1 made good time up church ill an dark reached the that ough fare into bagle hale lake 1 I stopped here an got er bite of nn an no methin warm to drink nut but wen w en the moon roge there was a big hig circle round it an I 1 knew it meant snow an kits luts of it so I 1 III alg gored it would be a mighty good idea tir eit git to kaneo down yere bout as quick as I 1 d be let I 1 packed up ag 10 la got through the twixt th two lakes an set out down eagle pan poni I 1 that aln t no elo ich sheet of water mister no an wen froze over she looks bigger still you been chete then yo know all it an how pillsbury a the only island isla nd in it I 1 could jest jost see the island like 6 J cool t I 1 yx czar 01 r P 4 M this yere main ain t what its it cracked up to be fer ter game a big patch of shadow on the ice wen I 1 started down the like iske the wind waa was behind me or u it blew strong an boosted me along nicely but the heavy sled traveled faster a I 1 did an kep rappin me in the heels id sailed eagle lake tore fore that time in a canoe now I 1 jest jost ran ashore cut a stout pole an two cross pieces an set the tarpaulin cover of ray my led sled for or a sail there warn t bothin tor for me ter do b it steer clear of pillsbury island a that warn t a hard bard job so I 1 bur rowed under the furs urs an sorter dozed off the wind kep but I 1 didn t think no harm for the sled kep well ahead of it an the ice was smooth we skinned in great shape an the aster faster we went the bet ter I 1 liked it the vy ge got ter be so easy that I 1 realty really did aall all inter later a doze an had bad no idea where the sled lied was till all of a sudden she alu slurred 1 hard on a wrinkle in the ice tee it woke me quick an I 1 started up ter sit it my bearin x I 1 t wanter run inter later the island an knock it or myself ott off the map dut but by gogill we was right in under the head bead a the island an almin direct for it an what I 1 saw ahead dalr all th dr camin amial about a 0 me kaow I 1 tell yel ye there ahead of the alyin sled not a thousand yards ats ft ay was a stretch of black open water sater re achin clear across the lake and t abat at rid old sled i with ral itis weight of furs an iw me on top of em was kushla right inter it as fast as ha I 1 a gale e d drive us I 1 tell ye mister the eight weakened me 1 I 1 knew that all things considered In clodIn the heavy runners an iron work on that sled she the was as bound ter go darwn the minute sr she struck open water like a ton W 0 brickel I 1 might rall out alive myie though to jump from the thing at the rate rat she was alyin woud be but them skins would be a bial low lose I 1 was sure 0 that an art I 1 wage wags t low dew in heeln my only hope for salvation alv attoa teo too I 1 mad a dive live for the mast and tried ter unship it but the berned thing had been ton tot well wedged for me tc te get it out in a minute I 1 id d set it up as though I 1 never expected to wanter end my r byge y ge the old led sled was a cummin an that break streak of open water mai drabin near at the rate the yankee flyer comee comes up from costing basting the black gulf was as jeet jost ahead an I 1 co could ua d almost hear the mases br eakin thir th ice tee front evry ev ry moment I 1 expect ed the runners would rut cut through tho th enow snow lee and I 1 id d go darwn debbe never to come up again tell ye what mister taint plea pleas ant ter see such a finish ahead of a man I 1 dunno as I 1 ever felt less ready an willin as tho the preachers put it ter complete my eirthly journey as a I 1 did at that yero yere identical minute that was cold water I 1 knew an J warn t anxious ter try it lots 0 strange thoughts pase through a man mans a mind at such moments mostly edees that ain aln t no help to him in the em emergency agency he a a fa n but one good one come to me CL tho the ropes euthin seemed ter say an I 1 made a grab for my belt out but I 1 id d jest been uain usla the knife to cut to backer and tas down there under the tura furs somewhere atwould ha taken a lawyer ter flad find it an then too late to hunt for the knife too lato late ter do any thing but shut my eyes an wait for the first icy plunged tho the white ice faded an am ay on both sides a 0 the sled an I 1 well mister I 1 shet my eyes tight an I 1 ep cm em shut with my head burrowed in the skins an then come a shock that rattled airy tooth in my head an drove me up inter the air like a stone out 0 one a 0 them they uster use in bible times the old sled stopped dead the mast snapped square off and I 1 turned sev ral summer salta b fore I 1 landed sq are on top of my head I 1 reckon that landin kinder knocked some sense inter me for as soon a I 1 could open my eyes without scein trees an stars an the lake an everything els elsa 3 alyin round me in a sort a 0 merry go round I 1 knew what had happened I 1 wa a nt t drowned nor I 1 nan man t swimming in no lake id lund ed on the rocky shore of 0 pillsbury island and my sled had run into liar larl to loosen every j int in the thing and reatter the skins 3 tor for yards around I 1 I 1 e see mister dwarn open water after all that black space black ire lee that had bad floried across the channel after the other and since the last fall of snow hut but a man blights jest as well bo be killed as ter death an that yere certainly hid bad me tell ye what will 11 I 1 that a good tuff acht if it I 1 id d bad a nip of that the nig night ht I 1 was tellin you cf it might t ha kep me awake an I 1 ex perlen perien ced what I 1 look back upon now as my closest baill |
