The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-11-26

was the beginning OF q great Thanks
giving drunk on the part Of the three.
Seems like he's forgot his promise
to take the black pony fer Jessie
John thought.
Brother and sister were reioiced at
meeting again after their long separa-
ton, and the miles were Travelled quick
~.
However, they had hardly left the
station When John noticed a peculiar
change in the atmosphere. It grew
cold and the sky was lowering. Evil
IDENTIFY a storm was near.
He whipped up the horses and they
sped along rapidly.
Darker and darker grew the heavens.
John thought he had never known q
storm approach so swiftly.
1t became bitterly cold, and the
wind blew from the north. Suddenly
the sleet and snow began to fall, and
John knew that they Werein the midst
Of one Of those terrible billiards. oft
Southwest .
He made Carrie as comfortable as
possible with his big buffalo robe and
her shaWls, and bundled up himself
all he could, but still they suffered
from the cold.
BY the time they reached Sassafras
school-house there were two feet OF
snow on the ground, and it was falling
in binding food.
The building was deserted and lock-
ed. John thought of Cephas in the
saloon at the station, and wondered
if Jessie had waited for the black
pony
They were still more than mile
from Rose ranch, when human form,
PROSTATE in the snow, caused the
horses to shy and brought an exclam-
alton from ohm.
He drew the team to q standstill,
and, passing the lines to his sister,
leaped from his seat and bent over
the storm S victim.
Great Heavens, Carrien' he cried,
'''it's Jessie-the school-ma'am O.
Sassafras!"
Carrie did not hear him. Stung by
driving sleet and biting cold, and
rhtrned perhaps by their MASTER
lden springfrom his seat, the spirit
ed horses had plunged forwards, and
finding no restraining hand an the
bits, for Carries hands were stiff and
numb with the cold, they dashed
away over the prairie, leaving John
standing helplessly in the snow over
the inanimate form of the little teach
er! =, . f@
John lost not a moment in idle con.
temptation Of the situation.
Gathering the little teacher in his
strong arms, and holding her close
against his breast, that she might alb
serb OF the warmth from his own per-
son, he boldly struck through the
snow in the wake OF the team, which had
now entirely Disappeared in thestorm.
At last Rose ranchswas reached and
there at the gate stood the runaway
team, with heads down and their bod
les quivering with cold, and at the
door was Carrie, uninjured and half
warmed by the fire which burned in
the CRATE, and in the act of dispatch
ing Vasques, the herder, to Johns re-
lief.
John did not tell her where Cephas
was, but he remarked that she could
not 60 to Galloway's now, and after
all would be their Thanksgiving guest.
She was glad of it, she said.
The two had a long talk the next
day while Carrie was preparing that
rousing dinner. ..-...... ~
"Cephas told it," he said, in answer
to her repeated question.
"Well, it is not the least bit true"
she informed him. ''I'd never marry
Cephas Bludsoe!" ,.....
Then the big, honest boy found ex-
preston for his love at last, and he
was electrified by the sweetness of her
answer.-Arthur @. Grissom.