The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-12-09

Ter git Wetp There, there; pet. DOM
ye cry. Thank God, amt hurt
And the great brawny fellow, wet as
ne was, took the fair girl in his arms
and was stroking her hair, and was
kissing it.
oh, I'm so happyp said Alice laugh.
ing and crying at once, and giving him
little squeezes and taps, and running
from his arms to the closet and back
to his arms again, and getting kisses
and dry clothes as fast as she could.
Now, don't say word about it,
Jack, till you've had your supper she
said few minutes later. But what
a shame it is that supper is spoiled.
Shall i cook you anotherp
Spoiled, eh? Well l rather like
spilled things like these; and Jack
laughed as he drank the hot tea that
was slowly bringing him out of the
chill of his icy bath. But when the
supper was over, and baby was asleep,
and Alice had filled up the pipe that
she pretended to like the smoke of be-
cause Jack had smoked so long that he
thought he couldn't stop, and when
she saw that it was fairly lit and draw
ing all right, she nestled down close be-
side him and said:
Now Jack, tell about it.
well, Alice, dear, it was mighty
close fit. L will tell you: There was
a dozen of us sortinEOgs up at the
bottoms, fer to feed the mills tomorrow,
an good many logs had come down
through the day, an kind O jammed
up things so they was some danger O
the boom breakin,' cause the waters
higher'n usual just now. Aleck Brown
an nae was together, an 1 see Aleck
looked sort O. serious, so | asked him
bout it. He didn't say nothin' fur a
minute, but pretty soon he says: Jim
Gagged oughter know, and he says the
boom is strong; but reckon if they is
much of jam up above, it'll tear things
when it does bust. An judgin' by
the looks of the river, Ireckon they is
bad jam somewhere
i looked up the river, an sect they
was mighty few logs comm down, and
l knowed they must be. Just then
Bill HOvy come down an says: They
is jam up to Wilson's Bend
Twsrn't only two o'clock, an l
lxnOwed was likely to git back at the
Usual time, so 1 didn't send ye no word,
but Aleck an me, an half a. dozen O.
t he fellows jumped into wagon an
d rove ups fast's we could 60.
when we got there we see 'twere a
bad jam, fur another one further up
t he river had busted an piled up the
logs mighty thick. When one busts
onto another that way, ye know, it
makes it bad.
well, we worked nigh an hour try
ing to start her from the shore, but
t'wasn't no use and finally Aleck
says:
"Twon't do to let this 90 on. We've
got to work in the middle. Who'll 90
with me? An he starts out on the
jam fur the middle O. the river.
well, see the boys all look at me.
They knowed well enough, that 1 was
the best man to go, 1 knowed it too,
but thought O. you an waited min
ute But the other fellers said they
wouldn't, so went.
Fore l got to where Aleck was, 1
see that if we did start it from the mid
die, we'd likely have to come down on
the logs to the boom, an knowed it
were mighty risky job. But twas
the only way to save the mills, an
somebody had ter do it, so Aleck an l
worked the best we knOwed for half an
hour. At last we started it, an 1 see
there was just chance O. getting to
shore. Aleck was just ahead Of me,
an we was goin' as fast as we could,
wnen the thing give way, an we was
sailin' down the river at about fifteen
miles an hour.
We hadn't gone quarter of a mile
afore the log 1 was on turned, an in
steppin' round, one O. the spikes on my
boots snapped off an Islipped in. 1
hung on to my pole, an it made a
bridge tween the logs, an l was just
up when another log struck
the end of it an splintered it into bits.
l fell back, and thought 1 was gone
clean under, but the two logs just
clamped me by the neck.
You may know how quick they come
together by KNOWN they didn't Craze
my shoulders as fell, but they caught
my neck afore my head got under the
water. But quick as twas, 1 had time,
as 1 see 'em comm to hope you was
prayin' for me. 1t didn't look like any
thing else could save me, for / knowed
when the logs come together they'd
crush my neck like an egg-shell."
'Oh Jackp poor Alice was white with
horror, and trembling like leaf.
Yes, DEAR said Jack, .drawing her
closer, Il thought of you, an felt
mighty sorry fur little Jack. Lor' 1
know'd how you loved d yer great, rough
ignorant
'Hushl please don'tp and Alice's
hand was on his lips.
We'll, well, / didn't have time to
think of much, fur 1 felt the logs was
chokin' me, an yet knowed somethin'
was keepin' 'em about four inches
apart.
What twas / didn't know till after
wards.
My arms was free under, an tried
to pull the logs apart, but bless ye, they
was a million pound pressure, an
I nights well ha' tried to pull up
tree, an begin to give up, when 1 see
somethin' fly through the air an light
on log nigh me, an / heard Aleck
call out: 'Helpl Help!
He might as well ha' hollered to the
stars fur helps holler ter the fellers on
the shore, fur they couldn't get to us
then, an knowed it. But it give me
hope ter hear his voice so near by. /
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