Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-18

from the wound in a stream. He was bounced upon in a second and torn to pieces
 by his companions Crszed by 8 taste of blood, the whole yelpipg pack charged upon me. 1t was growing light in the east. where the moon would soon rise, but was still too dark to travel with safety, but tarried not. Hastily dipping my feet into tke feathers of my snorshoes started down the steep in- cline ss if shot from a catapult. Down, down, down into the darkness rushed at hesdlong rate. A gsunt brute crouching
 near tree sprsng at my throat, but be had not calculated on my rate of speed and
 passed harmlessly through the air ten feet
 behind me. On came the pack, but their
 cries became fainter and fainter, and soon
 speed. as was passing close to she brink ot
 c precipice and soon had turn to make
 which one cannot easily do with snowshoss
 twelve feet long. I stopped st the turn to
 await the rising of the moon, which soon came up, making 1t as light as day.
 believed that the wolyed had left to hunt
 some slower game, but that delusion soon suffered a rude ehock. Soon the yelps conn menced with redoubled fury as they scented me, and came closer and closer. I got on my shoes and waited, nothing losth to show | ing them again how easy it was to give them the slip. On they came, and ss they got
 close started out once more, but was horri- | fed to fnd that at this place the decline was not great enough for the shoes to run them- | selves. I had forgotten until this time sbout this place. There was & bench about five hundred yards long, and from there the traii | vered to the right, and for half mile de-
 scended very nearly at an angle of forty-nve degree; then the angle was not quite 90 much, but still very steep, down trail ss
 straight as @ string 10 my cabin, seven miles below.
 II nr a.,,,. .ha ha--lsnr, y,aot- and knowfnc ff was life or death to get to the steep decline
 before my pursuers, bent every energy to reach it. Every time I showed 6 foot ahead I would give push with my pole, sending | myself along about five feet each time. As | reached the turn could hear their ye3ps
 right behind me, and could even hear their
 heavy breathing. While was turning my
 shoes one big brute in advance of the reei
 | reached me, and with fearful snsrl sprane
 at my head. stopped, and as he went ovsl me straighteued myself on my shoes sud started down the steep hill. l plunged down with speed that no steam could give , Trees flew like spectres; looking down th' narrow path it seemed like a plunge to de
 struction. On, on went, riding my pols for dear life, trying vsinly to cheek my , speed. My pole snapped like a pipestem un. der the heavy strain. and bounded forward , with increased speed. The world swam be. . fore my eyes; trees reeled back from my {: course with horrible nightmare weirdness don't exactly remember what the next sen sation was, but tried to peep out from un der tha brim of my hat, and 1t was all & blu r l-trees, rocks, landscapes were all plendeI . together in an undistinguishable mass. I @ seemed an age, but it was in fact but yer q few moments, until my speed began to de crease. The momentum was speeding m , out on to the 'mesa" Nndisn for vslley.) r saw my cabin close by, but, having no pole could not stop, So I disengsged my fee from my snowshoes and rolled of into
 drift, and let the shoes go on. I tound ther 6 next day nearly 8 mile from there.
 f If should live 8 thousand years woul g never forget that wild night ride nor the in f describsble feeling of excitement, fear an f pleasure as plunged msdly down the nsl 1T row path from old Storm mountain.