The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-23

recover from my astonishment at this
change in their tactics. ] heard one OF
! the rocks that held down the roof roll
off to the ground. Terror stricken, I
Jumped to my feet. believing nothing
now would keep them out. II they
could roll off one OF those rocks, the
boards Of the roof would be nothing
to them. picked up q gun that hung
upon the wall and raised it toward the
roof. Soon saw one of the boards
begin to move; but y little at first, then
more and more until the starlight was
plainly visible through the crack.
Then it was suddenly wrencned from
its place, and a dark object appeared
in the aperture. fred. The same
moment was dashed violently to the
floor by something heavy coming from
the direction of the roof The next
thing remembered was finding my
sell lying upon the bed. 10 my sur
prise J saw the cabin door was open
and the sunlight streaming in.
started to get up but fell back ex
hausted. Wondering what could be
the matter, / made another attempt.
AS ! did 80 my heart almost stood still
at the sight OF a man standing in the
doorway. Could be dreaming? I
rubbed my eyes tremblingly with my
hands The m n. apparently divining
my thoughts, said:
Don't be afeared; it hain't no ghost,
but it might have been, if you'd shot
me that night as you tried to-
Shot your | gasped.
Eyes, shot me- repeated the man,
':and If I h dn't thrown you to the
floor when I did you'd shot at me the
second time"
But the coyotes?' [ asked.
"CoyotesP" repeated the man in
amazement. What do you meanp''
told him my story, He laughed
heartily.
ut warn't no coyotes or nuthin' as
you heard. It war me and the other
fellows a-hollerin'. You SEQ. we bust
ed both our lamps, and we were a-hol-
lerin' for you to make some light SO
we could see where the cabin war.
You see, you war clean out OF your
head with the fever and you Imagined
all these things He then told me
that had been lying i'll with a fever
ever since that night. some three
weeks In all, and that had been delir-
ious the whole time. While he was
still talking two other men came into
the cabin.
That's a nice way to be a-treatin'
people as is sent to your rescue, = spoke
up one of them. ''And after benz
nearly frozen to death on the way. .
added the other one.
MY rescue? What do you mean?"
| inquired. not a little puzzled.
Amt your name Harry?'' asked
the first speaker.
No, / said, it isn't
They all looked at one another
strangely. Then the same man said:
Why on the 9th day Of February q
telegram came from a man up here a.
sayin that the fellow as war a-stayin'
with him had got lost and he hisself
war a-dyln'.' y
February fifth thought. II,
was the day Harry died" In a mo-
ment saw through it all. Harry's
business at the telegraph instrument
that morning was explained Getting
awake while [ was out taking away
the wood from the door, and not seeing
me, he thought in his delirium I was
lost; hence his message to Colorado
Springs. It is still matter Of wonder
to the people out there how the rescu-
ing party ever got up the mounta in.
It was q feat never attempted, much
less accomplished. at that season of
the year.
Some time afterward 1 met the man
who had told me about the coyotes
He laughed heartily when I related
my experience. He said that what he
meant by coyotes were the feas that
fairly swarmed up there at certain
seasons OF the year. They we're SO
big and bit so hard that the men in the
service .'nicknamed them ''coyotes. -,
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