The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-06-13
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| 4 AsT0RYAsKa ToLD IT HIMsELr.
He ~ ) faiIs one-sysd man, va,
ling : road-rlIsnsd hat and ! red flau
nj ahtsk Hs - on the railing Of th
bE;1se. vhittiiAe and talking to thre
o. 1pur others st11dlns near BY.
"Yss, sir," sald be, IT wss des,
oncs. Il vs. the strangest thing 70,
svsr NV 4 yoae iifs."
"You deu't bsaisve Il, eh ? Well,
don't wonder much. don't suppos'
any man ever went through such al
awful sisos, and Z don't sxpsct any
Aody - look atit - Ido. You zee i
happsned like Thu: Il was that win
Ter where We wineered on whitooml
CFsSk. six or siehS years ago. It wa,
war time then and wages wers good
I va est$ine lbfsy dollars month
and worked liks beaver TIL this 1T,
IL AMIR eams on We went q worh
nils fsom ~ shanty-J Jim Robin.
son and me-And had slAshsd Into ths
pine llkS al possssssd. The boy,
hauled pretty lively, Tor IL was early
IN january. and slsighing was good.
Jim was at work on . big tree about
twenty rods from where I was. Pret.
y soon, aftsr he yelled 10 me, his tree
topplsd ovsr and fell. Il ives . hand
some . pisos Of pine timber = you
svse Nv, and watched Il = It fell.
Crash q won't, right into the branches
o. = old grub oak and hung fast
there. / never saw . fellow madder
than Jim was. He tried every possi-
BILE way to loosen the pine, but could
not get Il on, Finally, We maa1e up
our minds 70 60 for the oak tree, and
10 about ten minutes We had Il cut
through 70 Il trembled like : leaf with
every stroke Of the AZ, he eating on
one side and on the other. When II
was almost through, . I was the big
gest and beat chopper, says I to Jim
let me nuish her, Jim. Gel out Of the
way and I will have her through In
half . minute.
had bean chopping minute or
tive when Jim let loose scream that
would have made m Injun's blood
run cold. | had just time to look up
and 80 that pine tree tumbllng down,
when dropped my AZ and run. I
couldn't have got far when something
seemed to hit my eyes. and then ev-
erything was dark. suppose / was
dead. Maybe you don't believe me,
boys, bat that's all can make ont Of
It. All At once the light, the looks Of
the snow on the ground, everything
was shut out from my sight. There
VA kind Of uncertain, dreamy kind
Of feeling, just - ; person has when
he's aslsep. knew something awful
had happened, but / couldn't stir
mysslf hand or foot. Il seemed q
though Il was night, and that I VA
eoversd up BY sounsthing that pressed
heavy upon me. still, there wasn't
any particular pain, and for . long
time couldn't think where I was.
a1Sw lOng staid there can't tell. /
suppose ss wasn't s-nS. when / fell
somebody pull my arm, and heard
Jim Robinson say: %, Lord! Poor
fellow!
E I knew he was there, and I could
feel him touch me. and yet I couldn't
speak or open my eyes. He thought
/ was dead. Then wondered II oil
dsad folks could know and think Of
things as I did. I tried to move my
hands, I tried to breathe, I tried to
scream, but I couldn't do anything.
Jim let met and the next remember
Of I Was pulled out from under the
tree, and hauled TO the shanty ON Que
Of the sleds. You may bet there was
considerable excitement among the
boys when was taken into camp. 1
could feel that ives dead. Ny heart
didn't beat. I couldn't move. But I
could hear, and had . kind Of misty
notion Of everything that was going
on shout me.
Some Of the boys, after feeling Of
my forehead wanted to send for the
doctor.
Its no use, boys. said the boss, the
poor fellow's gone. HIS neck was
broke. The most we can do i6r him IL
to take him home 70 his foiks.'
Well, they laid me out on one Of
the sleighs. and after fixing me up In
- decent way % corpse could be in
. lumber camp. one OF the tesmsters
started with me for Oshkosh.
At llrst / didn't realize jost how bad
the situation was. When 1t begun to
leak into my head that I was really
dead, and was going to be buried in
the ground. and shut out forever from
the light Of the sun. It frightened me.
The long ride 70 Oshkosh passed like
those things that happen In . dream.
We got there, and I was taken to my
brother's houss. He felt terrible bad
when ! was brought home. bad no
tdes that he thought - much Of me as
he did. I could hear him cry aud
talk, and still I hadn't the power to
move . muscle. I was put In . coffin,
and II finally came ont that I was to
b taken to Watertovn to be buried.
NY old mother lived there you know.
Oh. boys, ! hopa none Of you viii ever
b made to feel the horrors that / felt
when | knew that was boxed up In
: comm and would soon be buried.
Eight years have gone BY sines then.
but ! never think Of it without . chill.
l could feel them putting on the lid
OF the codln, and then know was
fastened up.
From that time until the cover Of
the comm was raised again 1 havn,t
any rsoollection Of what happened,
only that I was continually Ia motion.
iThsegh oonldn't open my eyes, I
sorter felt that II ~as dark, and I was
going somswhere. All Of sudden I
ee1e ellne some oSRa Ras fr,rnf,,~ ~.