The Newtown bee., 1878-01-10
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 bon, you bet !-for about u week, wheI
 early one morning,as l lay in my ragged
 bit of tent, woke up sudden like, to
 rooring noise like thunder then lher
 came a whirl and rush and was swim
 ming for life, half choked with tn,
 water that had carried me off. Now l
 was hitting my head, playful like, sgel the hardest corners of the rock 1t could
 find in the Gulch; then it was hitting me in the back, or pounding me in tn, front, with trunks of trees swept dowr from the mountains, for something hac hurst--a lake or something high up-- and in about wink the hull settlement in Taller Gulch was swept away.
 Well" says, getting hold ef a branch and drawing myself out "some on em wanted good wash, this'll give it 'em; ;" for you see water had been skecrce lately and what there was had all been used for cleaning the gold.
 l sot on a bit O rock, wringing that water out of my .hair--least wise, no il was some one else like who sot there, chaps knowed, you See and. there was the water rushing down thirty or forty feet deep, with every thing swept be- 1 fore it--mules, and tents, and shanties, and stores, and dead bodies by the dozen.
 "Unlucky for them,' ] says and just then hear wild sorLer Shriek, aud looking down, ] see chap half-swim- ming, halt swept along by the torrent, trying hard to get at tree that stood i'other side.
 Why, it's you, is it, Hez2' says to myself, as looked at his wild eyes and strained face, on which the sun shone full. You're gone coon, Hez, lad 7; so you may as well fold your arms, say amen, and go down like s man. How 1 could put you how. lad, if I'd got a shooting iron put you out o' yer misery like. loull drown, lad"
 He made Il dash, and tried for branch hanging down, but missed it and got swept against the rocks, when he showed his arm between two big bits; but the water gave him 4 wrench, the bone went crack, and as sat still there 1 saw him sweep down lower and lower till he clutched bush with his left hand, and hung on like grim death to dead nig- ger. t.'.
 '.Sarve you right,"I says coolly."Why shouldn't you dle like the rest I If I'd had any go in me should have plugged yer long ago."
 "HaIloal Iclied then, giving start "1t ain L. 'tis--taruallon i! il can't be T"
 But it was .7a r.- q.
 There, on t'other side, fifty yard lower down, on bit of shelf of earth that kept crumbling away as the water washed it, was Jael kneeIing down with her young un and as 1 looked, some. thing seemed 10 give my heart t jigg. just as if some coon had pulled string !. Well, he's bout gone, ,"'I says "and they can't hold bout three minutes then they'll all drown together, and she can take old iez his last babby 10 nuss, cuss em.! I'm safe enough What it got to do with mef l shan move"
 l took out my wet cake of bacea, and whittled off a bit, showed Il in my cheek, shut my knife with click, and sot thar watchin' of 'em-talher, and mother and bairn. 2 afa #a..a... ..r...f .n
 "Yoa' ve been happy, you haye," l says out loud not as they could hear it, for the noise of the waters. '.Now you'll be sorry for other people. Drown, darn yer !! stock, aAd lock, and barrel;I I'm safe." -s..
 "say, Dab," says to myself, "don't you be fool You hate that lot like pison, you do Don't you go and drown yourself ..
 l was bout mad, you know, and couldn't do as l liked for, if I didn't begin to rip off my things, vet and hanging to me. Cuss me how they did suck but cleared half on 'em off, and then, like mad fool, made run and n jump, and was fighting hard with the water to get across to Hez's wife and child. It was bit of fight. Down l went and up went, and the water twisted nc like leaf; but got out of the roar and thunder on to the bit of shelf where Jael knelt when, if the silly thing didn't begin to hold up to me her child, and her lips, poor darling, said, dumbly, Save il oh, save it !" In the midst of that rush and roar, as l saw that poor gal, white, mortified, and with her yeller hair cliuging round her, all my. love for her cuues back, and 1 1 swore big oath l I save her for myself pr die. 1 tore her dress into ribbons, for there garn't moment to lose, and 1 bound | hat bairn somehow to my shoulders, she me inc while: and then, with i my heart beating madly, caught her in ny arms, she clinging tightly to me iE her fear, and l stood up, thinking how l