Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-13

know the signs. Don't stop to hear an
other lesson, but bundle the children W
and start EN- off home right away. My
horses are harnessed up, and I'll be
round with my big bob-sled in five min
utes to take them home that live fur
thest away, The Dwight, Barnes,
Greenwood and Long children, bundle
up quick as you can
Miss Dodge went running toward her
stable, while Miss Percy at once dis.
missed school and began helping the
little ones int their cloaks and hoods.
In very few moments Miss Dodge
came driving up with a pair of bob -sleds,
on which her wagon-bed was placed.
The wagon bed was fun of clean
straw, and Miss Dodge see med to have
put into it every shawl and quilt and
blanket and other hcd-covering in her
house, besides two big butfalo-rohes and
a bcar-skin.
The children living near the school.
house were already running across the
prairics toward home. 1t was growing
| darker and colder every moment, and
Miss Dodge said;
Jump in no time to losel Snuggle
| down in the straw and cover up best you
can. Set close together, and you Il
| keep warmer, Here we go! G1ang,
linny-gtt up, Charley
And as she spoke, away we few over
the plain, with the wind whistling
around our ears and the sharp, icy
snowtlakes flying into our faces.
| There were in tho sled Ned and
| Bessie Dwight, Tom Greenwood and his
little brother, three girls named
Barnes, Wilfred Long and his sister
and my brother James and I,
Wiltred Long, the boy who had given
| Miss Dodge so much trouble, was older
| than any of us, and he was, as | have
| said. but fourteen years old. lie was
very quiet and thoughtful as We rode
along
Miss Rebecca sat upon the high seat,
| lines in hand, her scanty skirts blowing
ont behind her and her gray head bowed
To the wind.
| She had on an old overcoat of hel
brothers and shawl wound around her
head, while her hands were encased in a
huge pair of hearskin mittens she had
| herself made.
You warm she asked, once or twice,
| looking back over her shoulders.
YES ma am, some of us would reply,
respectfully enough now.
1t was surprising bow fast it grew
dark and how rapidly the temperature
lowered, Struggled up as we were in
| the straw and covered with robes and
! blankets, We soon began to grow chilled.
I n.
| and quarter from the schooi-house,
while the homes OF the rest of US were
farther away, my brother James and
coming tfnra distance OF nearl Y two
miles
Tho wind steadily increased in fuzzy.
and the snow tell faster. Miss Dodge
| urged her hor SOS on, but one of them
vas lame and limped painfully.
We finally lay down fiat in the starw,
and covered up in the blankets and be-
gan pinching and teasing each other
not realizing that our situation was at
all dangerous, and not approaching all
| Miss Dodge was doing for us
Suldenl. we all gave a shrek as we
went Sprawling out in the snow, or ON tc
the frozen ground in places where the
wind had blown the snow away.
The good landr' | heard Miss Dodge
say. desnsiringly. The tongue of the
sled is broke, This is pretty llittle o
fish"
To our surprise, it was now SO darl
we could hardly see each other, The
wind had risen to perfect gale and wa
roaring around our ears, while the snow
swept into our faces. Some of us clung
to the sled to keep from being blown
away
In turning a corner little too alb
ruptly, the sled had tilted TO one sid,
and the wind had helped to tip it over
1t now lay bottom-side up in littl,
ravine by the roadside. One side of tn,
wagon-bed rested on a rock and wa
raised eight or ten inches from tn,
/ ground
Suddenly Miss Dodge called OH
sharply and authoritatively, her vote
rising shrill and distinct above the roa