Show tad fac adventurers CLUB jg ile HEADLINES FROM FROK THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 r down tie the river road H ELLO EVERYBODY thrills enough to last through heres a yarn that packs a whole night at least it did for mrs dorothy murphy the bronx N Y many years ago dorothy was living t on a farm in of dover plains the chestnut ridge section near the little town N Y she set out to drive to the railroad station three miles away shed had enough adventures to last a and before she got back lifetime that sat was in february 1914 dorothy was just 18 years old her aunt had been spending two weeks with the family and it was she whom dorothy drove to the train on that cold february evening automobiles so common then what dorothy old half blind horse named drove was a surrey drawn by an brownie strain the train pulled out of dover plains at p in and dorothy turned the horse around and headed for home already it was dark a moonless starless night the way back rough unfenced country road that tha lay along a steep climbed for nearly three miles before it reached chestnut ridge on one side of it lay thick woods covering an upward slope of the ground and on the other was a steep declivity cli vity for part of the distance that declivity straightened out into a tau tall cliff and there was nothing to prevent a carriage from going over it it if it approached too close to its edge that was dorothys first thrill the prospect of driving over that roa road d in the dark she thought darkness would fall fala so soon that night and she was scared stiff of that cliff As she drove along and the darkness deepened she see her hand before her face and she gave brownie a free rein hoping that his instincts would keep him on the road dorothy felt the wheels slipping over the edge they were going along the top of that hat cliff and all was going well and then all of a sudden dorothy felt the wheels slipping over ever the edge poor half blind old brownie had bad failed her ile he her arms were aching and her head was swimming she hear brownie wander off had bad gone too close to the edge the surrey gave a sudden lurch and dorothy was thrown out into space pace says dorothy 1 I clutched at the air as it slid past me like a drowning man clutches at straws bly hands grabbed some bushes growing out from the side of the cliff and I 1 hung on tor for all ali I 1 was worth and there I 1 was between earth and air and with nothing to save me from death on the rocks below but my pre carious hold on those shrubs dorothy says that time has no meaning under such circumstances the minutes seemed like years her arms were aching and her head was swimming she could hear brownie and the surrey wandering off in the darkness evidently the old horse had pulled the surrey back on the road after she had been thrown out for a terrible moment she clung to the bushes and then her fingers encountered a branch of a small tree growing along the side of the cliff she caught it with one hand then the other and drew herself up over the cliff to safety she lay on the ground for a while sick and weak then having recovered a little she got up and stumbled to the road brownie and the surrey were nowhere in sight dorothy started walking toward home think shed had enough adventuring for one night but the big thrill even started she had only walked a few steps when she heard a sound that froze her blood in her veins the haying baying and yelping of dogs wild dog pack pursues terrified dorothy dogs dont sound so dangerous but dorothy knew better A short time before she had seen the body of a boy who had been killed and partially eaten by these same dogs they were wild animals descendants of dogs who had run away from their masters to live in the woods and had reverted to type every once in a while in those days packs of that sort appeared in the woods in various places pla ces throughout the country and they still do in wild outlying regions A single dog would run at the sight of a man but in a pack and i in in the middle of the winter when they were half starved they would attack almost anyone dorothy knew au all too wen what would happen if this pack caught up with her she turned stumbling into the woods and ran until she found a tree it was a tree with a low fork of its branches one she could climb she began pulling herself up into it the yelping of the pack was coming nearer and nearer she a minute too soon she had hardly clambered into the lower branches when they were on the spot yelping and snarling at the bottom of the tree and there I 1 was she says perched in the tree while the hunger maddened brutes howled bowled and snarled below I 1 still turn tarn sick and cold all over when I 1 think of that moment the worst part of it was that I 1 was afraid id grow weak or taint faint or so numb from the cold that id fall out I 1 knew what would happen then ot with the first streaks of dawn the dogs left hour after hour dorothy clung to that tree wonder wondering in 9 why her folks folk dian didn t miss miss her and come looking for her wondering why they realize something was wrong when the horse and buggy came home without her she know that old brownie turning completely comple teh around in his struggles to haul the surrey back on the road had wan wair dered de back to town and the was spending night in an open horse shed her folks thought dorothy had decided to spend the night with relatives relative to in town as she often did so they worry and all that night sh e crouched in in the tree racked by the cold and harried by t terrible fears fear s As the first f streaks of gray appeared in the sky the dogs slunk off through the woods and when she thought it was safe she came down and crawled to the road she walk but a farmer driving to the milk depot found her in the road and brought her home dorothy says ashes written this story for us other adventurers to ti read but she adds usually I 1 dont think of it it if I 1 can help it released by western 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