The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-06
All at Sea-A Brief but Awful Voyage.

George w. Peck SAYS mo person with a
heart car read the story of the two Michigan
girls and keep the tears back OF course
some people cry easier than others, and what
would cause one person to weep cOpiously
would only cause another to look solemn and
pitiful, but recital of the sufferings Of these
two girls cannot fail to bring tears to the
eyes of even those unaccustOmed to weeping
1t seems that the girls went to a retired spot
and divested themselves of their clothing to
an alarming extent, and went bathing in the
waters of Lake Michigan. For time they
turned 1ip-faps in the water, and scared the
fish ashore, when an impulse seized them and
each got on a saw log that happened to be
near by, and they padded themselves around
with feet and hands. 1t was one continued
round of pleasure, barring the bark on the
logs, until the logs began to ioat out into the
lake. The logs had got out some distance
before the girls noticed what was going on
and when they looked toward the shore and
saw their clothes in little piles on the bank
looking no bigger than a towel, their hearts
sank within them The wind was blowing
quite fresh from the shore and quite cold, and
they would have suffered severely, only their
hair was auburn which overcome to a great
extent the rigOrs of the climate Picture 90
yourself these poor, misguided girls, on the
saw logs. the shore of their native land rap
idly fading in the distance, and the cruel
wind blowing them toward Milwaukee at the
rate of six miles an hour. Saw.iog are good
property, but each of the girls would have
given every saw log on earth for one suit of
summer clothes. They tried hard to paddle
f0yr ard no hr1+ Bo,
the little Michigan feet against the gale that
was blowing them towards the h0spitable
shores Of Wisconsin. The girls would not
have objected to a trip to the Badger State.
ordinarily, and they had often hoped to
crossing the lake on a propeller, clothed in
the right mind, and not crossing on saw log,
without any side saddle. and non-attired even
in their minds. One Of the girls was inclined
TO weep, but the braver one kept up the spi-
rits Of her companion by telling her it would
soon be over, and they would be floating ND
Milwaukee river, making a sensation that
would raise the neighbors. As they got out
about a mile one of the girls felt something
nibblP at her foot, when a new danger threat
ened them, and with a cry Of sharks they
both put up their feet on the logs, and sal
there dreamily, wondering what new danger
would menace them. a log is a most un.
comfortable subject to dwell upon, the way
they make them now, and it is no wonder
those poor girls felt that it was no Pullman
car they had taken passage on. They thought
of home, friends, kindred, polonaise. and
straw hats, and so forth, and were wonder.
ing what the Wisconsin people would take
them for, when they decided to take one
more fond look at Michigan. When they
/ looked around, to their Joy and modification
I they saw some men in boats coming to their
rescue. They were pleased at the thought
/ of being rescued, but sad at not being dressed
/ for company, and one was going to iump
/ overheard aud drown herself, when tie other
| thought of the plan of getting off the logs
and holding on TO the bark while the men
/ towed them ashore. This was done. and. he
/ 1t said to the credit of the Michigan rescuers
/ that they never looked back but when the
/ boats landed at the beach near where their
clothes were, the bold rescuers immediately
/ took to the woods and never looked back. not
even giving the girls a chance to thank them.
IL Is needless to say that the girls kicked
themselves into their dry goods real sprv.
and that they took a solemn oath never n
start to Wisconsin again without steamboat
1t IS said they cannot look at a saw log now
without pang of sorrow. We are glad they
did not come to Milwaukee, -