The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-15

! and hi the noSSeS neaQS ABOVE water
till they could tech bottom, and in ten
minutes We had EN- all out"
"Alls' said the old man with sudden
CLEAN of hope.
"All the animals and all the fellers but
your grandson-at least he's the only one
missin's fur's we know. There want no
need of his bein' drownded at all; but
he'd been to git some hammers to knock
the balls from the HOSES hoofs with and
pears the foolish Teller tucked EN- in his
pockets. They took him right to the
bottom, of course. And what I'm feard
on now, is, we shan't find him at all This
here shore slants right down steep, to
about seventy or eighty feet deep, of
here; and with them hammers in his
pockets, with every struggle he made,
he'd be liable, don't you see, to work his
way furder and furder down that pitch.
That's what tell EN-; but they don't
seem to believe a word that l say. Ii
they'd believed me when l telled EN-
they ought to scatter more and rot crowd
together on sech young ice, 'tWoulda been
better for all on us, | VOW"
Mr. Dracutt watched the men raking
the pond for some time, without speaking
though his lips moved now and then in
audibIy. At last he asked for Kermer.
"Thats him with the pole, in the bow
of that furder boat there" said farmer
Corbett "He's done his duty sence he's
been here; but if he'd been here afore,
twould saved all this. Nobody know
ed how to go to work. Nobody would
hear me, though I telled en- and so
forth; the worthy farmer appearing by
this time to have convinced even himself
that he had fOreseen the danger, and to
find dismal satisfaction in uttering pro
phesies after the fact
Don't handle your rake in that way,
said the old man, as farmer Cobett thrust
down the implement in fresh spot be-
meath the ice. "Be more careful; be more
tender! You may hurt the boy Z"
"He's past hurtin' by this time l guess,
likely" said farmer Corbett. "The main
thing now is to fish him out"
oval, wal be gentle l wouldn't have
We m his featur's, nor any part of him,
morn I'd have we tear my own flesh. If
he's drownded, he's drowndcd; but don't
mangle him. Whereabouts was he when
he went DOWN"
"That nobody knows. It's as much as
a Teller wants to do, sech time to keep
the run of himself with an acre of ice
slumpin down under him, and the water
spurtin' up about his legs; he can't keep
many eyes on his neighbors, nor do much
else than mind his own business for a
spell. Two or three @ them that got the
duckin they've gone off now for dry
shirts and breeches- they said they'd seen
Clint standin' on the ice not more'n a
few seconds 'afore it split up, though, Of
course, they can't tell jest where A sud-
den casouse over neck and heels into ice
water makes Teller feel curis, for about
a minute, and forgit things. / tried it
once myself"
"How long fore missed him?" the old
man asked.
Il vow, l don't know as we should a
missed him TIL this time," said farmer
Corbett, getting down on his knees, and
feeling with his rake to the utmost depth
it would fathom; "but Kermer missed
him. He asked for Clint Dracutt, Almost
the first thing, fore even we'd got half
the men out. He knowed about the ham
mers in his pockets, ye see. No user'
drawing up the rake.) "The bottoms
gettin out o my reach, and | go about
two and twenty feet We shall have to
lash poles to the handles; and then, If we
don't find him, cut holes in the ice be-
hind us, here, and fish for him through
them"
Don't git discouraged" cried the old
man, seeing that others were beginning
70 relax their efforts ''Let me take the
rake"
Farmer Corbett was quite willing to
give it up; and the old man found tenn
porary relief to his distress of mind in
the physical eXertion sf searching for the
body. 1t was hard work, however, and
his strength was soon exhausted. He was
feeblv hauling up the weed entangled
rake from under the verge of the ice,
when some one came and took him by the
arm. 1t was Phil Kermer, sober enough
now
"This is no work for you, Mr.. Dracutt.
Come away; let me send you home"
mo, no! | can't go till he's found" said
the old man.
'Tn see that every thing is done that
can be done" said Phil. Come; my
sleigh is here
Still the old man refused to go. And
now the foreman was called away from
him by the arrival of the President OF
the ice company, driving down to'the edge
of the pond, in cutter, where two of the
directors, who were already on the spot
went to meet him.
:, VI.
} PHIL RESIGNS HIS SITUATION.
: Kermer on coming up found the thre
: in consultation.
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