Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-15
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| would not venture out again. The littl
| schoolmarm looked sober and anxious
| and more than once a suspicious mois
| ture might have been detected in be
bright eyes. She wept and conversec
with her escort in a low tone, but he evi
| IDENTIFY was out of sorts and spoke very
gruffiy and said as he handed
her some crackers: eff you are
| hungry eat those" He had filled
| his pockets with the crackers. She
gave the crackers 10 child and looked
at him with unutterable scorn, as she
said: eff you are not man enough to 90.
L will" She buttoned her jacket up &c
her dimpled chin, and throwing a shawl
around her shoulders was about TO step
out OF the door. when one of the mer
near her laid a OBTAINING hand upon her
arm. and asked what she was about tc
do! II am going out to search for the
young man who went out some time ago,
as no one else will" This was TOO much
for the men. you stay here and will
90, said one, land L." land II said
others So muffi1ng up, the rescuino
PARTY started, and the little schoolmarm
kept behind with the others and
watched.
In about half an hour there was
shout. The rescuing party had returned
and they bore among them the apparent
~ lifeless form of the active young man.
They brought him in the car and laid
him on one of the imprOvised cOuches
Life was not extinct, but it would have
been ere long had he not been found. He
had evidently reached some house and
was on his way back, for clasped in hi:
arms when they found him in huge
drift, where he had sunk exhausted. were
five lOaves of bread and a whole ham,
When the little schoolmarm saw that he
was not dead, she frightened up Won
derfully and was as brisk as e er.
They rubbed the active young man
with snow and finally brought /
him back to CONSCIOUSNESS. In the .
excitement of restoring the active Young
man, the provisions, for which he had .
risked his life, were forgotten, until
some one discovered the escort il orc
corner of the car cutting great slices oil
the ham with his Jack knife. He wa
requested to desist, ant
was escorted out on the platform of tn,
car by two or three strong men. A few
after he was seen to crawl ou'
ii snow bank.
Somehow or other the little school
narm seemed to get near the active
/
we're surprised to see that they knew
ZACH other, and as the little schoolmarn
eemed able to take care of him the
'ther people gradually gathered at the
'ther end of the car and left them alone
asting knowing looks in their direction
very once in while. A short time
fterward the little schoolmarm to d !
ady, whose acquaintance she ha0 {
ormed, that she and the active young '
IAN had been lovers, and had quarrcled, l
nd that the escort had come between 1
hem, she thinking that he was a nice .
Dung man, but now she saw his true /
and that all had been made e
p between the active young man and l
erself, and everybody voted that this
as as it should be- +
Someone CHANGED to look out Of the n
lndow and discovered that the storm C
as over, and just then in the distance Y
as heard the shrilI, clear whistle Of the q q
connective. Help was coming. Jim F
led to blow an answering blast on the L
histle of old Seventy three, but steam p
as low and the whistle frozen fast. In
few moments, with much putting and
histIing, three powerful engines forced e
cir way through the drifts. Then s.
ere was shouting and hurrahing Five ii
inbred men soon cleared the snow from W
e bound train and the passengers. e.
tn light hearts. were again on their fc
urney. =
When the train drew up at the sta ST
IN, the baggage tapped the es- te
TT on the shoulder. and said: Here is q
box that came from your store" and il
nded him the broken cracker box. h
lie escort looked at the box until the m
18th dawned upon him, and then with CO
netting that sounded very like a cuss II,
'rd, flung the empty box in snow az
1T and walked rap dIy away, with the te
lghter of his companions of the train til
ging in his ears. III
Sometime, soon after the school term of
ses, there is to be a wedding in which IF
, little schoolmarm and the active on
ing man will play the prominent ne
It's and take upon themselves for life TO
) pledges renewed in banks of snow. 20
Yankee Bsu1Le. -,
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