The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1886-07-15
THE youzo LADY.

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engineer - the train slowly crossed
long gradual grade. You're atop Of th
Rocky mountains nov, ma'sm-
E@ily vsashn looked 70 lsft and right
aud YES conscious ot . feeling Of disap
poiniment She had pictured the top o
ths Rocky mountAins - somsthinG quit
difIsrsos from this. Hare vsss no irovn
Ing heights or sudden gulfs. only wid'
rollins plateau. some distant peaks vhicl
did not look very high. and iAr ahead
glimpse Of lower levels running down in.
70 plains. u sseaed hardly worth Will
70 come - far for 20 iittls,
Really she said. But where arc th,
mountainsi They don't look nearly se
high - they did yesterday
Naturally, ma'am. responded the en-
ginesr; things don't appear 20 high wher
you're - high as they are. We'r atop
Jon know.
But there's NO look of, no wonderful
distance Is from Mt Washington. ! con.
iess am disappointed.
It's kind Of queer. said John Scott. will
> dry chuckle. how folks from the East
keep alluding 10 that ere little bill as II i
we're the standard Of measurement. W.
don't think 90 much Of it this way. Why
ma'am, your about 2.000 feet higher tbii
minute than II you was at the top Of that
little shuck Of Mt Washington that they
all think so much Of.
Miss Vaughn smiled. but she experience
cd shock nevertheless. The New Eng
land mind does not easily accustom itsell
10 hearing it, scored mountains thus light.
ly spoken against. Have you ever seen
Mt Washington? she asked.
oh. bless you yes! replied John Scott.
cheefiully. ! was raised over to Frye.
burgh, and grew up alongside Of 1t.
thought il Was pretty big concern when
I was boy, but now He closed the
sentence with short, expressive laugh.
Miss Vaughn changed the subject. She
was not offended. She had grown TO like
this rough. good natnred engineer in the
course Of the three days journey, during
which, favored us relative Of one Of the
directors Of the road, she had several
times been privileged to ride, as now, in
the engineers cab for better view Of the
country.
Have you been long on this road? she
asked.
Pretty near ever since II opened. l run
the third through train that came out
from Chicago, and ! haven't been off the
road since. winter or summer, except for
three months when was laid up with .
broken leg.
This must look very different in winter,
said Miss Vaughn, noting the treeless dis
tances. and the SHOWS still glinting on the
higher peaks TO the left.
You may believe IL doesl That hrss
year, when the snow sheds wasn't built,
II WAS terrible. was running that train
that stuck in the snow seven dsys-per-
hsps you'll remember about it; IL WAS in
al the papers. I shan't ever forget that.
not II live to be as old as my grand dfath-
er, and be didn't die till be was ninety
odd.
Tell me about it, said Miss Vaughn,
persuasively, seating herself on the high
side bench OF the cab. with that air Of At
lention which is so enticing to the story
Eeller; amusements are few and far be-
tween in the long monotony Of the over
land journey TO California; besides which,
Miss Vaughn dearly loved story.
There ain. much to tell, said John
Scott, with something Of . feeling which
prompts the young vocalist to complain
II hoarseness. ! Amt any hand At telling
hings. either. Then won by Miss
appealing eyes. he continued
weran all fair and on time till we was
Ibout two hundred miles beyond Omaha.
Then the snow began. II don't seem
much At first. The womAn.iolk in the
rain rather liked II. They oil crowded to
he windows 70 see, and tho children hur.
ahed. Anything seemed pleasant
hsnge after the sage-bush, l suppose.
But Is II went on coming, and the drift
rev deep. and the cars had TO ran slow.
he older ones began to look serious, and
can till you that we who had charge Of
he train felt so.
We was just between two Of the feeding
tations. and We put on oil the steam We
ould, hoping to push through TO where
PROVISIONS could be got at in case ws had
0 stop. But ii wasn't no use. The snow
ept coming. never see 1t come so. The
axes looked as big as ssucers. aud the
riffs piled so quick that, when We finally
tuck, 10 about ten minutes no one could |
&c out Of the windows. The train wonld |
ave been clear buried over il the brake
aen and the portcrs hadn't gone the
'hole length over the roof every half hour
nd swept it Of with brooms snd shovels.
Ve bad lot Of shovels aboard by good |
uck, or else nothing could have saved Us
rom being banked up outright But it
Ias terrible hard work. can tell you.
here wasn't no more laughing among the
asaengers BY the time IL come TO that.
nd the children stopped hurrabing.
Oh, the poor little thingsl What did
beg DO. We're there many on board'
Va there plenty for them to eati
That vas the wont Of it. There want
lenty for anyone 10 eat We had stuck
ust midway Of the feeding stations. and
hero wasn't much Of nothing on board
esiies what the passengers had in their
anch baakets Oas lady she had . can
I condensed milk and they MIXED that
:, fnr sha hahl~a --there vas Tan nj ,sm