The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-08-15

| Win yOa on lts Dnck. sit the rate OF
sixty miles AN hour. and you'll know
how felt just then.
II had turned of the steam directly.
OF course; but what was the goodp On
such an incline az that the engine
would run down the line by its own
weight without any steam ut Ill.
'And then remembered this sharp
curve just where we're a-sittin' now;
and at that pave myself up for lost.
and began to think OF jumpin' of and
taltin' my chance. But to Jump of,
with a precipice on one side and wall
OF rock TO be dashed against on the
other. would have been pretty much
like case OF out o. the fryingpan into
the fire.
but just when II seemed TO mo oil
up. a new Thought struck me-
"'lf can't jump down. says to
myself. I'll just jump up instead. The
telegraph line crosses the railway just
at that sharp turn, rec'lect and 1t
amt so high up, neither. hut what
one might manage to reach 1t with a
good jump. I'll have a try at 1t any
way, for it's neck or nothing with us
nowp'
IL tried TO make Jack Karloff under.
stand what l was goin' to do, 30 as he
might take his chance at 1t as we'll;
and think he did not take 1t in ut
last But whether 1t was that he'd
fairly lost his nerve with fright, or
that he didn't think twas any good
tryin' it. he only shook his head. and
wouldn't bulge. And then there was
no more time to try and pursuade him,
for all at once we came flying round u
corner. and there was the last curve
right afore us, and the telegraph wires
a-stretching across it. just as you see
'em now.
1T made me feel cold all over. can
promise you, when thought OF what
was before me; and well it might for.
as you can sec for yourself, 1t waren't
'zactly the sort o. leap as any man
would be in a hurry to try without he
was obligated to It, Howsomdever, it
was my only chance. and it seemed to
me that any chance, even though twas
but poor one. would be better than
sartain death.
here, the sharpness OF the turn Stacked
down tho speed OF the engine just for
one moment and in that moment shut
my teeth hard, drew myself together
for a spring, and went at 1t as II I'd
been fred out OF gun.
well, sir, you may be sure that
what with the spring OF my leap and
what with the go OF the train itself,
/ flew up in the air like u sky rocket
as IL never meant to come down no
more. But in another minute / felt
something come across my chest like
a blow OF stick. and there l was
a-hangin' upon the telegraph wires
hard and fast-saved, as one might
say, by an inch!
.For moment / felt so sick and
giddy like that everything seemed to
spin round me like a top. But could
just see .dimly, rs II twas in dream.
the train jump right off the line and
go flying down the side OF the ridge
las it might be this way) straight
down upon the station; and with the
force of its rush-b'lieve it or not as
you like-it went slap through the
station building, in at one side and out
ut tother, carryin' away the whole
roof on it's back, same as snail car
ries its shell.
"And poor Karloffp" suggest I, rs
the old fellow ended his story. He
was killed. OF course?"
well, no; he wasn't killed. after
all. Howsomdever, he sartainly ought
to have been killed. If he hadn't had
as many lives as cat. You see,
when the old train jumped off the
rails that way, and went galloping
down the slope into the station, the
swing of it chucked Jacky off head
foremost, and he went neck and crop
into water tank; and s'pose that
broke his fall somehow. Anyway, he
came off not much the worse for it.
barring the fright; and l was as glad
to see him again as II they'd guy me
thousand silver roubles. But If any
body was 10 offer me twice as much.
wouldn't try that ere job over again"