The new North-west., 1872-11-16
FsT DEFR LODGE MONTANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 49,

TiAE GRAND ROUNDS.
4 foa1ulsHI n T1f aanosAl PARK.
~ xrxssa VI.
On wssnssday. i0eptsmhs l1sA, at $50 = m. We
broke camp in the Basin, took, - We supposed, .
farewell look At friends the Geysers, and With
we'll adjusted packs started chesry for tho yellow.
stone Lake. We had becp told that Stephenson had
found pathway between the two points only eight
sen nsles long. BY keeping ap the Fire Hale soos
aiss and then crossing the dark, maseive. heavily
imhersd range to the cat. PasAns Old Faithful, We
followed up tho river thetrsil crossnx and recrossng
Il occasionally, and feeling the right route
and the beautiful Lake would bless our visisa ese
nightfal. We ratified brskly along. making ths nosn
tans echo with laughter song. and the eternal Hoop
regulated pack hos,e. a.
OFF wRoSo No, f--
Thse ,e, or IL supposed to be, monitor within
every man. woman and domestic animal, which rc-
bukcs them when morally wrong. Why 10 It that
there IL not such monitor within 70 admoutsh
them when they take wrong road : It weuld save .
deal Of trouble. We hsd progressed but a few miles
when the trail became indstlnct II frightened up,
led into dense park and vanished totally. llow We
regretted Stephensons party had not taken Longfel
lows advice and left
"Footprints In the sands of Time,"
or even the Fire Hole How VIC regretted the Narrow
Gauge Railroad was not built, and that the timber
wac 50 thick that 'John" kept swinging around like
Missouri rive. steamboat sparring Of bar arst
one side Of hs pack aud then the other both COL
ldsd with the dense pines. A council Of war was
held
I'VE have lest the trail 4: What's tn be done r
"What direction from 10 the Yellowstone Lake?''
"A little south Of cast-nght over the range"
swell; It's not over eighteen or twenty miles dis
tant. We can keep the direction by the sun. Lets
cross the river and take to the mountains. Wen
come out somewhere on the Lake before night"
Il Was agreed to and away We went. But alas!
The best laid plane o men and mice
Gang aft aglce-r
The hanks were precipitOus the wOod dense aud
away beyond up the mountains stretched rocks, and
fc,led timber-a secmingiy impossible pathway.
An rNrowAnD INCIDENT.
We must cross the river The Ray mond., Norton,
Freilcr and wOoda! went over aud out on the high
sedgy bank. John" With one Of his clephantine
groans, followed. with :he culinary department;
Gray scrambled up nefy0usy; "D0lly" rested her
unwieldy middle moment aud we6t ashore on her
fore knees while 'Piro" with less grace than deter.
miuatiOn.Aoppcd his calico carcass into the willows
and got on his feet at leisure. "Prince" and rider
were following, and behind them, just coming into
the river, was Lar:ey ON his stccd, which by ua.
happy Gxht with the larst few nights before had 20
swollen it, neck that it, head hung to the ground
Prince disEustcd with the difficulties Of the pack
hOrseE. concluded not to minCc matters with that
four feet bank, aud rearing high in air. made clean
leap that carried horse and rider several feet ashore
In thts dTcus performance he jumped through his
eoddIs girth and the writer, when waited ashore,
found htusc Ovef tic trucks Of bis cayuse and
dismouut necessary to fesdjust the Saddle. At this
critical moment WOOdalrs horse commenced sefiss
oe acIohatic maneuvers, uusettkd Princes nerves by
buck" against that irritating saddle, and away hc
went, trying 10 turn sW0merssults over the other
h0ss ano stick bic heels IN the sun. Happening to
sok up hs ssped Largev and hor~s In the river. In
one bound hs was the brink the esc0nd leaped Il
seemed. twenty-five fect toward them, and tho next
with desperate bound. sprang upon the helpless
horse and rider with tue frenzy Of maniac. and the
desperate fury of tiger, carrying them down and
under the water, with our companion 70 all appear.
ancex crushed the rocky bottom beneath the h0sss
II was too fearful to contemplate. Some shut their
eyss to close out tue ghtfu scene and Others sprung
into the river TO rescue the body pf our friend from
tbs boots Of the frightened animals that were strug
CLING desperately ~ get on their feet. Not Z man
supposed Lsr:cy could be rescued alive, and the
thought Ut the burial In the Wilderness and the sad
homewasd journey flashed over more than one Of 10
In the dozen moments this transpiring. Another
moment aud the would reach the horses one
ot which was already On his feet another moment
and hs who epdcared " " all would bc draas,ed
mutillstsd corpse from under thsm-anothsr mo-.
ent and our journey which had been like IN Ely .isn
dream. would be changed to = funeral procession,
away in this untsoddsn Wilderness with each heart
throbbing drge for the dssd. Bat that moment,
thask God, never CANA The waters parted, up russ
dripping and demors!ized looking bipsd and puitiug
Ike po.poise Lafxsy come to his feet blew the water
from his mouth and with the hroadsss, best natursd
laugh IN the world, sung out:
Il say. boys; hsvnt had terrible old canpaigu
In shsrs1'
And then looking around
"HAtrss A0s A0rse?" prince BY this time was
ashore, and looking At Lsrgey a. though he had q
notion to make another dive at him. "Oh! there he
IL. Whoa! Whoa! DON'T you come back here, you
-yes soossdreI; ! havn't anything against yOv.
Whoa WAoal'
by this time the scene hsd become too
irTesistahly comical to restrniu laughter,
Lasgey wasn't even bruised, although VIC
would have sworn the horse struck him on the head
with one foot. and how be escaped II miracle 70 all
Of 10 to this day /; the Intensity oe aptrehspsiou
brou9ht reactioa aud the laughter at drst suppressed
changed 70 peal peal that made the old woods ring
again.
IRRELEVANT Ax1TEn.
day. We discussed the poposition to 20 up the
stream to tho Madison Lake and camp. But that was
abandoned asd It 10 well II was. for Haydens survey
party has since discovered the msps are all wrong.
and that Madison Lake the head Of Snake river and
not Of the Madison. The council Of war again DE-.
cided-this time to return to the Lower Dasiu. and
take the Hayden trail u the Yellowstone rivsr We'll
under way, Norton said:
''Largey, you onght to be grateful to me-
"What for.
For saving your life. Il was who saved you."
''Yes you did, You sat ON your horse like rsrrells
Paddy and never come near me-
"WelI, sir; that was just what saved you Ny
horse wanted to 20 for you. too l never saw hum
want to 50 ~ much, and - I sat there on him,
thinking about what . sick funeral yoa would have
my heart got heavy II sunk him eighteen inches In
the ground and he couldn't stir hoof. Ipaved your
life, Larycy, by that hesc act. You should think
well of me-. But yoa don't appear 70 aypeeciats
Kindness. You made my heart still heavier by CON-
Ing eas alive"
lyon knew weuld whale you % coon y W get 10
camp" .asa s....,
mo. not that. Largsy; but knew you would
dain yoar share VI the 'specmens' when we reached
Virginia, and II you had died wou,d have had oM~
Then there were cpitaphs sussrsted-the ones No
would have written. and among them ws only rcmcm-
bss these; ss.r.s. ..E...s rsf.t....
Line Dcwn-"3O."
He avoided II wanfully for forty odd years, but
water 0ct him at last.