Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-27
Harvey's Haul.

the angry, turbulent wind would no
permit them to be still and rest afte
their long journey, but, catching
them rudely up, would whirl and tos
them about till caught by some rocl
or tree, they would lodge and joir
the millions of flakes about them il
piling up great white drifts.
1t was early in the season for SO Sc
we're storm as it was not yet The
middle of November, and yet thi:
storm was destined to he one of the
severest that ever visited the noun
tains of Northeast New Mexico.
Through the ever-increasing drifts
there ever struggled forward a young
man in what had proved thus far to
be vain endeavor to find place of
shelter from the coming darkness and
the chilling storm.
He, together with three other young
men, had come down to New Mexico
from their home in Northern Colora-
do, on hunting excursion. Their
stay was to be limited to a couple of
weeks.
Harvey Morris is the name of the
young man whom we see forcing his
way so manfully through the snow.
He is a Woodworking young book
keeper in his native town, and now
for the first time had felt himself f.
nancially able to stop work long
enough to take few days recreation
in a period of three years.
Perhaps the main reason for this
striving to lay up money was his de-
sire to save a sufficient sum to enable
him to wed the maiden of his choice
Three of them had shouldered their
guns, and, leaving the fourth in
charge of the camp, set out in search
of game.
A couple of hours after they left
camp, Morris became separated from
his companions. This did not trouble
him in the least, for he was a very
self-reliant young man, and felt fully
able to take care of himself under
any ordinary circumstances He be-
lieved that he knew in what direction
the camp lay and that he could return
to it whenever he chose, but events
IL tIaA
taken.
Dark, grayish-hued clouds came
piling up, and, before Morris had
given them any particular heed, white
fakes of snow had begnn to fall.
Faster and faster they kept coming,
and fiercer and iercer blew the biting
wind, till Morris realized that he was
exposed to the full fury of mount
ain blizzard.
Confident in his ability to return to
camp at pleasure, he set out in what
he believed to be the right direction
and pushed steadily forward. After
tramping for what seemed a sufficient
time to reach camp, he commenced
to become alarmed over the prospect
before him if he had really lost his
way.
Still he kept on, vainly trying to
see some object through the binding.
whirling snow that looked familiar.
All landmarks look much the same
when covered with snow, even to the
eve of one familiar with the surface
of the country, and how little hope
there was for him recognizing any
thing with which he had become ac-
quainted in his brief stay can be
readily understood.
Another hour passed and still no
trace of camp, and he was compelled
to admit to himself that he was lost
and to be lost in storm, in a wild,
thinly-populated country, means vast
" more than it does in thickly in
habited one. His heart sank within
him at the prospect.
Already he was weary with the eff
forts he had made, but he knew that !,
he must press forward till he found
shelter of some kind or was lost, for
he could never hope to weather a
night of exposure in that storm.
A cave in the rocks or sheep
herders' hut would indeed now be |
very welcome sight to him. So on and
on he pressed, stumbling over the
rough ground where the wind had
swept it bare of snow, or staggering
through the heavy drifts of snow that
blocked the way.
1t seemed to him that many, many
hours had passed since the storm be-
gan, but by taking out his watch-a
heavy gold one, formerly the proper
ty of his father-he found that it was
not yet four o'clock. Less than two
hours more and darkness would fall,
and then his last faint hope of finding
a refuge from the storm would be
gone.
Shutting his lips firmly together he
pressed forward.
Darkness came quickly on, and at
length her veil dropped over the
earth, and in despair Harvey was
about to cast himself down on the
ground, in the lee of large rock,
when his eyes caught the glimmer of
what appeared to him to be far-off
light.
With energy renewed by the sight, {
he fastened on, and in less that TWEEN
ty yards he came upon rude cabin
standing at the base of tall noun
tain peak and nearly hidden by bushy !,