The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-19
AFLOAT ON A LOG.
Two Michigan Girls Have a Thrill
ing Bathing Experience.

No person with a heart can 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 might
cause another To look solemn aud pitiiul,
but the recital Of the SUD rings OF these
girls cannot fail to bring tesrs.even TO those
unaccustOmed to weeping. liz seems that
the girls went to a retired spot and divest-
ed themselves of their clothing to an
alarming extent, aud went bathing i'm the
waters of Lake Michigan. For a time
they turned flip flaps in tue water, and
scared the fish ashore, when an impulse
seized them, and each got on a saw log
that happened TO be hard by, and they pad
dled themselves around with feet and
hands. 1t was one continued round Of
pleasure, barring the bark Oh the logs, un-
I'll the logs began to float out into the lake.
The logs had got some distance before the
girls knew what was going on, and when
they looked toward the shore and saw their
clothes in little piles on the bank, looking
not bigger than a towel, their hearts sank
within them. The wind was blow ing fresh
from the shore, and they would have suf-
fered feariully, only their hair was auburn,
which Overcame the rigors of the climate
yourselves these poor, misguided girls
on the saw logs, the shore Of their native
land fading in the distance, and the cruel
wind blowing them toward Milwaukee at
a rate Of six miles an hour. Saw logs are
good property, but each of the girls would
have given every saw log on earth for one
suit Of summer clothes. They tried to
paddle back towards the shore, but wha,
power had the little Michigan ieet against
the gale that was blowing them towards
Wisconsin's hospitable shores.
The girls would not have objected to
trip TO the Badger state, ordinarily. and
they had often hoped to cross the lake ON
one of the propellers, but there is great
difference i'm crossing the lake in a pro-
peller, clothed and in the right mind, and
crossing on a saw log, without any side
saddle, attired i'm their minds. One of
the girls was inclined to weep, but the
Drawer one kept up the spirits of her COM
panion by telling her il would soon be
over, and they would be floating up Mil
waukee river, making a sensation that
would raise the neighbors. As they got
out about mile one Of the girls felt some
thing nibble at her loot, when a new dan
ger threatened them, and with cry of
sharks" they both put their feet up
on the logs and sat there dreamily.
wondering what new danger would
menace them. \ log is a most uncom-
Portable subject To dwell upon. the way
they make them now, and il is no wonder
these poor girls felt it Was no Pullman car
they had taken passage ON. They thought
OF home, friends, kindred. polonaises and
straw hats. and SO forth, and were about to
despair, and were wondering what the Wis
ronsin people would take them for, when
they looked around. and, to their Joy and
they saw some mon in boats
coming to their rescue They W. re pleased
n the thought of being rescued but sad.
iened at not being dressed for company.
and one was goirg To jump overheard AM,
brown herself, when the other suggested the
plan of getting of the logs and holding bv
he bark while the men tOwed them ashore.
This was done, and be il said to the credit
II the Michigan rescuerS, that they never
Ooked back. but when they landed mt the
'each, near where the clothes were, the bold
escuers Immediately took to the woods
md never looked back. not even giving the
'escued girls time to thank them. 1t is
needless to say that the girls kicked them
elves into their Cry goods real spry aud
hat they took a solemn oath never To start
or Wisconsin again without a steamboat