San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-15

git wet? There, there, pet Don't y
cry. Thank God, I amt hurt" ...
And the great brawny fellow, wet a
he was, took the fair girl in his arms
and was stroking her hair, and.was kiss
ing it. 1l
"Oh, I'm so happyl" said Alice laugh
ing and crying at once, and giving hin
little squeezes and taps, and running
from his arms to the closet and back h
his arms again. and getting kisses ant
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
cook you anothei?')I SIT
Spoiled, Qeh ? Well,I rather hk'
spilled things like these;y and Jacl
laughed as he drank the hot tea tina
was slowl, bringing him out of the chill
Of his ICY bath. But)when The snppel
was oyer and baby was asleep, and
Alice bad filed up the pipe that she
pretended to like thsl smoke Of because
Jack had smoked SO long; that he
thought he couldn'tstop, and when she
saw that it was fairly lit and drawing
all right, she nestled down close beside
him ana said :hit 40 ,SItf5H3
"Nogv, Jack, tell about it, n r''"'''''
"Wel, Alice, DEAR it, was "a mighty
close fit. will tell you There was a
dozen of us sortin' logs up at the bot
toms, fur 10, feed the mills to brow,
an good many logs had come down
through the day, an q 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 me was together, an I see Aleck
looked sort O serious, SO I asked him
bout it. He didn't say nothin' fur a
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, I reckon they
is bad jam somewhere
"I looked up the river, an sect they
was mighty few logs comm down, and
knowed they must be. just then
Bill Hovy come down an says: They
is jam up to Wilcon's Bend u TIL
"Twarn't only two o'clock, an L
knowed I was likely to git back at the
usual time, so I didn't send ye no word,
but Aleck an me, an half a dozen O.
yhe lellers jumped into wagon an
lrove ups fast's we could go.
"When we got there we see 'twere
Dad jam, fur anothr one further up the
liver had busted an piled up the logs
mighty thick. When one busts onto
mother that way, ye know, it makes it
Dad.
"Well, we worked nigh an hour tryin'
20 start her from the shore, but t'wan't
10 use, an finally Aleck says:
"Twon't do to let, this go on. We've
rot to work in the middle. Who'll go
With me? An he starts out on the
am fur the middle O. the river.
swell, see the boys all look at me.
They knowed well enough, that L was
he best man to go, l knowed it too,
nut 1 thought O. you an waited a
minute. But the other fellers said
hey wouldn't, so 1 went. '''.-
Fore l got to where Aleck was, [
ee that if we did start it from the mid
lie, we'd likely have to come down on
he logs to the boom, an knowed it were
mighty risky job. But twas the on
Y way to save the mills, an somebody
lad ter do it, so Aleck an l worked
he best we knowed for half an hour.
1t last we started it, an see there was
ust a chance O. getting to shore. Aleck
'as Just ahead of me, an We was goin'
S fast us we could, when the thing
i've way, an we was sailin' down the
iver at about fifteen miles an hour.
I'VE hadn't gone quarter of mile
fore the log 1 was on turned, an
teppin' round, one O. the spikes
IL my boots snapped of
nd 1 slipped in. 1 hung on to
" pole, an it made bridge tween the
,gs, an was just climbin' up when
mother log struck the end of it an
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