Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-08
Mary Climbed a Tree.

Chicago Times: Mary Amer and Lulu
Carr. aged respectively Is and 16 years,
of Paterson, n. j., will long remember a
p~erilous adventure which occurred about
three miles south of Nyac while they
were chestnutting. The girls came up 10
visit some friends in this ncighborhood
on Saturday, and, as tie chestnut crop is
larger this year than ever before, they
decided to form a sm detachment of
the large army Of che gatherers who
are out in the wood daily. They con
Guided that the most certain way for
them to find nuts would be TO leave the
well beaten paths ant strike out into the
woods where it was the widest and least
travelled. They sought the most unfre-
quen,cd part Of the South Mountain
tripping gayly along over the rocks and
through the tangled briars. Presently
they saw a group of chestnut trees stand
ing together, their tops being nearly Gov
cred with partly opened burrs.
con, Mary shouted Lulu, gleefully,
here's the place to get all the nuts we
want. Hurrah,' and she gave her hat a
fling in the air and laughed merrily.
They found the ground pretty well COW
cred with nuts, and soon gathered some
six or seven quarts.
Il am going to climb up in the tree
and thrash it, Lulu" said Mary Amer.
Don't you do it, Mary; you would
never get down alive. Men are the only
creatures that can climb trees"
"Bosh!' responded Mary. II am as
good as any man, and | am going 10 get
up in that tree"
So, Notwithstanding her companion
remonstrnccs, Miss Amer began her I'M
usual feat, and for a time it seemed as
though she would succeed in accomplish
ing her object. Suddenly, however, when
she was little more than half way to the
top, a small branch on which she placed
| her foot broke. With a scream she threw
out her arms, expecting to be dashed to
pieces on the ground and the rocks below.
| AS she fell she went between two large
branches below her and caught by her
arms. by which she hung suspended in
| the air. She tried to raise herself up, but
| she was unable to DO SO. Poor Lulu at
| the foot of the tree was the more fright
ened of the two, and she burst into a
| flood Of tears. "Oh, Mary will die she
said; she can never get down from that
place"
Help, help cried Mary, her voice
| getting weaker every moment.
Lulu went almost into Mysteries, and
| did not know what TO do. While %conjur-
ing up some plan to rescue her friend
from her position, Lulu heard the sound
of a gun some distance away, and she
gave "a succession Of loud screams. "A
moment afterward she heard some one
rushing through the ucderbrush, and
soon a middle-aged man, a South Nyack
! gunner, came in sight. He did have to
be told the situation, but realized il at a
glance. He sprang nimbly up the tree,
and by hard efforts succeeded in lifting
the young lady TO the top of one of the
branches, and then assisting her to The
| ground. She tainted before she was
fairly on the ground, and it took nearly
two hours to fully restore her to con
seriousness. The man then accompanied
the ladies to the place where they were
visiting, and they will return TO their
home tomorrow. II will be so're time
before they will recover from the shock
occasioned by their fright.