Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-03-09
NO. 10.

] ialnt track there came team Of horses
rushing 20 meet us. As they passed MS at
a swift gallop we saw that attached 10 the
harness Of one was boy hand sled. upon
which long plank was bound, and lastly
a young fellow lying atop, ON his side. in
the way boys coast down hill lie had a
round red face, on which was a fearless
laugh and he shook the reins above his no.
BILE team, and plunged into the darkness of
the east on his way TO the settlement
The storm had steadily increased in vio-
lence, though each stage seemed the limit
of its fury. The cold grew ever bitterer,
the night was almost upon us, and the
snow filed the air and we could see but
| few rods in any direction but our only re
| source was to press ON out on the prairie,
wrapped ia madly swirling clouds Of snow
! But we were all Western born, and not on
| ly knew our danger, but how to meet it as
well, Our trail was now entirely lost, aud
there was nothing left hut 10 steer by the
/ wind and the section lines. For mile or
more we had been following a furrow which
had been plowed along the section line, and
we must now leave that and bear TO the
| southwest.
Therefore, taking the wind (Which we
/ knew 10 be in the northwest) on our right
/ shoulder, we struck out in a straight line
/ for the place where we knew the shanty
belonging to Moore must be. We ought to
| come near enough to see it as we passed
| if not Well, we didn't like to think of
that. As our course must be made with
the greatest care Moore drove. while Bal
| ley and ! took turns in rigidly keeping the
wind upon the right ear, and in walking
in the track behind. The track we kept
straight in this way, and increased our
chances Of finding the house.
We were now moving in a circle of half
| light outside of which, hundred feet
away, was darkness Within this half
light all was distorted, fantastic A sage
bush a clump of weeds or tuft of grass
assumed huge proportions, and through the
treacherous gloom looked like a barn or a
stack Of hay in the farther reach of the
eye. bit of shingle not fifty feet from
my eye looked so like a cabin on the side of
distant swell that l called joyfully to my
companions that had found the house. 1t
! frightened me when, few steps further
on, | came to the wind blown bit of wood
and my vision of the house and the snowy
hill faded out into the depths of the storm
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