| Show KEPT KEP TONE ONE JUMP AHEAD OF RAIN veracious driver hangs up some record when I 1 yvan was a boy nathaniel S col cole e of lysander N Y relates i 1 worked on a farm for a man by the name of caleb stimson he did a great deal of buying and selling ot of fast horses but he wits was uever never satisfied no matter want he bought the horses never seemed quite speedy enough for him finally Fin nily caleb heard of a very fast team in the west and immediately left by train to try to buy them at the end of a week who should drive in but caleb with the prettiest spain of horses that man ever laid eyes on I 1 could see that caleb was mighty proud of them they had only one fault he confided to me a deadly fear ot of thunderstorms no one could complain on the score of their speed for they passed a number of fast trains on the way home one day about an hour after caleb had bad left to drive to town I 1 saw a thunderstorm com coming ingup up in the west remembering what he had told me of his bla horses fear I 1 waited uneasily for him the storm came nearer and nearer and finally I 1 could hear the roar of the rain as aa it came in a solid sheet down the road towards me then I 1 made out caleb the wagon was about 10 feet ahead of the rain as I 1 ran to open the barn doors when I 1 looked again the horses were coming faster than the fastest express train and the rain had not gained an inch the lightning however was flashing all about and in particular about the wagon tires completely encircling them they were regular rings of fire I 1 wits was paralyzed with fear cate caleb drive la in the barn like that I 1 he Ile would set it oni fire but he evidently saw the danger for he went by the barn like a streak and was not noi seen for several days when he did come back he told me he had bad kept ahead of the storm until it was spent but in doing so he had driven more than miles outside the state I 1 need hardly say that calebs passion for fast horses was by now completely satisfied but he never sold this team pathfinder magazine |
