The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-08

ways Try 70 uNlloVc luon men ulN NNt. |
are proved false.
"Beats an what women viii swallerl'
laughed "Skepn Thompson.
Mrs. Titus Perrin's sister, Mrs. Hard |
away. who had just arrived in town 20
pay her sister a visit, after many years
absence I'm che far West, had brought /
her sewing in from the living room be-
hind the store TO keep her sister com
pany. Her son, boy of sixteen OF
seventeen, who had attended her on
her Journey was among the group Of
men around the stOve Mrs, Hardawoy
evidently did not agree with her sister,
and she now took occasion to say so.
"T didn't believe it. " she remarked,
coldlv. "lt's just as hard for some
women to swallow lies as it is for some
men."
They all laughed.
"Yes. / suppose so. said "Skep'
Thompson. "But Tim here counts
most too much on everybody's ability to
swaller. You can talk Tim-I'll own
you're glib as if you'd been TO college
and hang me il 1 don't rather enjoy
hearin' YOU on the whole. But you
mustn't expect us to JeLieue you, that's
all
can right" said Fisherman Tim,
with imperturbable good nature. 81
don't know as ! can expect an ignO-
/ ramus like YOU, Skep. to understand
these yarns It's like tellin' a blind
man about colors. or those fellows
down there whore 1 used to be about
ice They never would believe that
there could be such thing But, good
ness knows don't want to talk any
more. My tongues downright tired "
go, no" said Titus Perrin, encourage
ingly; ''you were going to say some
thing about Dakota. That a change.
Maybe Skep could understand that.
He's been to Dakota himself. Let's
have it"
The men, after cracking a few more
Jokes at Tins expense, gradually as
sumed a listening attitude, and that
oracle proceeded.
You see, Lem Schroeder-he was a
Minnesota man l used to knOw-and
were up north prospectin'. 1t was
Just after ! came back from the tropics
knew l was CROWN old, and l didn't
want to die down there, so Twas comm
north to settle. Lem was a peddler
and he had a good team, so, as we ped
died along the way, we hadn't been a
much expense, and we'd had pretty
good time. 1t was late in September
when we set out, and when it got int
November, and pretty squally, we botl
thought we'd better be gettin' back {,
his place just then Lem took sick
hard sick, too.
"'Never mind, says he You tax,
the cart and 90 off for a few days
there was quite a lot of goods left
and by the time you get back I'll b
all right
"Well, there was good farmer
wife up there promised to see to him
and 1 went off; but when I came bac
he wasn't any better, and the week
went on, and still he didn't get well
The snow got deep, and Irather though
we'd better winter up there, but nOthin
would do for Lem but he must 90 home
ne. so, as soon as he got pretty strOn
again, we started. We'd planned it S
!" that we could get from one place to an
other pretty comfortable every day, an
if there was a storm we'd put up till
blew over.
''It was Christmas mornin' when W
u- started, before light, and clear an
cold as a piece of ice The sun cam
out, though, after awhile, bright enougl
The snow was deep, but it was packe
ng hard, and we drove over the smOoi
AN prairie like mad. At noon we stOppe
of for dinner at farmers named Perkin
ia: but we didn' want to lose much tin
his such a good day, so we were on Il
road again shortly after one.
at was along about half-past tW
p when, al of a sudden, Lem looked q
ent at the sky behind us, and, says h
er- What in thunder is that black cloud
the and, sure enough, right back of I
ne was a big cloud; and yet not a Clou
aw neither, q sort of a darkness, more lih
ost you know how it looked if you'v
ne ever been in a regular blizzard-and
wasn't creepin', it was comm alou
nee faster than any express train you evt
,ad saw. We whipped up as lively as "
9is | could, and Lem headed for little hOui
ZEN that we could just see way of on q
res skyline. But the clOud was gOin' abol
lnt a hundred times as fast as we were, an
( a it wasn't fifteen minutes before "
ers knew it wasn't any use, our teariI
icb along so. So far as we saw, we had q
red to stand and take it the best way v
of could.
ilI, 'It grew darker and darker arouu
MI us, till it was all a kind of a twiligh
de- buL OAlNE III AAAND HLAAa MNAA
vas sorter lift like, and then we could 81
vas two or three clumps of trees there. we
cd in sight, and the little house off on Il
bat sky line, full six miles away, and thr
NV looked white, as If they were made
snow I've heard since that that SO
you of thing is common in blizzerds, but
sen didn't know it then, and we DO
Sea thought it was mighty queer.
pen "There seemed to be a sort of gatht
tty in up Of the air ell the while. cOuldI
me think of anything only that there was
great giant close by us, putin an t
on air there was into a big bag so as
in fling it out on as atterward in aWi
kill winds. What made it seem more Ii
this was that it grew close, sorter 81
ain focadn' like, made it hard for us
any breathe, and the whole thing made
ere feel afraid; just as / used to when 1 "
in a little shaver and they shut me up
.n' s the dark.
'ea- II guess my face was as white
and Lem's-and it couldn't have been mu
the whittier, poor fellOw!-when he turn
ms round to me, and, says he, Tim sa
No he, it's on us. We can't reach t
Per- house. I'm afraid we're gone.
ned "Just then there was a gust came
oks a Whirlin', blindin' sort of gust, full
sit snow. and Lem lust caught hold Of I