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Show TOTS' TOYS SAVE SNOWBOUND FOLK. FOOD GONE AND NONE IN SIGHT, CHILDREN'S DEAN DAGS I FURNISH MEALS. CONTENTS ARE WELL COOKED j All Members of Party Eat Heartily, i Then, Storm Abating, They Snow i Shoe Rack to Clvllliatlon With Veungitert on Dackt. , Limestone, Mi. ifl,i it hl,t i,,n fm the wit nf woman, ami Incident-1 afiy, one unused to the woods, a party nf rltjr folk would have gone hungry fur n day if root,, re-eentl) while sua ' Uniting In Hi.- foiesis n, i, wesi e' hum. TIh- unman In Mm J II Norlli riii t IkMinn, anil the other memU.ni ' nf lli parly wef h..r husband Carson ' Itlajfce, lila half h-nihci. hii.I lliiii ' twt Niirlhrtiii oh I Id i en lira. Niirihrup In devoted to wlni Iim ii nil when ber husband Unlit a j buuaxilow In Hit- Maine woods last 1 niiMinor I- mm doHghled Wllh her! t orffldipti. she arrival lion. Ix-foro the WtWtl vit completed hiiiI hiihiii three dure iMlhtltm foieat mid skies Whii 'eft !. Mill nli,. would t.-firn liunljr after Chrll;i,ns hii.I innki. Mime alifilli of winter skies anal el-TiHti, el-TiHti, anil to thla end tin- unity came locek on December 1" ' A mm foment (.im mini,, in , ' noiith hum, lieef. 'Hour. egg, hut- I ! Mini oilier edible tn last a week. -lir wa the length uf Unit. the parly Intended in amy Tim provisions were forwarded according to iiKif.-mi'tit. I ml nt I ho tim! nf Die week "hardly tumuli wore Iit to make a rcicia- , bio meal. All would have gone well hail not 1 tho unexpectiil happened The morning morn-ing llm iwtty wmh tn break camp after h light breakfast n lino wmw licgan to rail uml ttila continued until n rlaliiK wind mflili" ho lrl hauirdnus In-, alenil of abating the atorm Inciensed tn it hllarnid. Mr. Nortlirtip scoured tht- bungalow friini lop tn IkiiIiiui la find forgotten IihhI, Imt nothing more substantial than tlnio tipple rinilil li discovered, Those were served n their sauco for dinner, unit for iipmr Mr. Wake fiiunil half n dozen norm some squlr-ri't squlr-ri't hail homed under I ho Rnlilo Then every one drank all llm water he could. Thn clilldron, the oldfHt of -whom aaaBaJntw)ilna.ihicaiuJ,frvlfulMa,UMlr.huiii Rur Increased, and at Ihclr uaual lied k tlmn they refused to go to alccp. Mr. 1 Nortlirtip boro with Ilium patiently I fnr an hour, and then auggnaled that thi.y drciii, open a trunk nf plaything brought In durlnR the summer, and nmime IhcmxcHen iinlll the "sandman "sand-man (nine uriMind The mile fulK hail no wHiuer spread oul their toys than .Mr Nnrthrup tit tered a ailppiewed exclamation of de light uml falrl) mirled Willi alee Then she IiIhumI (ii her husband 111 Imiiilh wiiler ci I Mr lllake want i.il In know hat all tho excitement mi HlMiut, hul the only Information he mil wan ilial h lienrly meal would he iwred for breakfast. The innineul the children telurned In bed and Mr lllake hnd retired Mis Nnrthriip ni-lmil six bean-Imga bean-Imga wllh which the little folk had lu iilayluc and tipped them ojien Out nl I he six she inamiKed In get two iiiMtt of benns These were put They Cooked the Contents of the Dean Dag. tn iMi.ik In water, nnd then she went I tn bed. I'.arly next morning before the nlhei weie uatlr the mother round bur beans awullin to four times Ihelr natural le and proceeded to mnko a hIvw or n thick soup. Other bean wero put In llio ocn to bako nnd tho meal wa ready. I Inn- welcome those unseasoned heun wern or how- good they tnsted can only be Imacliied by those who liae felt tho pangs of teal hunger. Kwry "no atu all he could, for there wna enoiiKli of the food for four full .meats, and capped tho uicSl with lung draught of water. Snow continued tn full until the following morning, when the skies cleared nnd tho party got to clrlltxa-lion clrlltxa-lion on snow-shoes, each earning one nf the chlldinn pickaback. |