The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-24

our last HOUR, auOt luQeeu tlc AdoL VI OAA
food. The storm had spent itself. The
snow, somewhat packed, was forty-si
inches deep. Snow still fell, but not heav-
lily. My comrade shouldered bis heavy
pack and we slowly waded down the almost
obliterated trail that had been made BY our
comrades two days previously. We had
eleven houre OF daylight in which to walk,
wade, wsllow, or what you will through
five miles of snow. Surely sufficient time
70 crawl the distance IL need be. The a.,
| spruce and pine trees were heavily laden
with snow, every bough was bending close 20
breaking. At short intervals of time and
distance. too, the toDmost limbs Of lofty
trees would break of or maybe bend 10 too
acute an angle, and the load OF snow they
had held up would fall on other and
lower limbs that were fully loaded, and
these boughs would promptly unload their
burdens ia chunky shower / was re-
peatedly struck down by these tiny ava
lanches and driven into the snow, to arise
4 to dig snow out Of my ears and to claw it
| from under my shirt and to be dreadful y
profane.
5nowslides Numbered down the bare
mountain TANKS that wall In the valley
The roar caused by icebergs falling from
the face Of glaciers echoed to and fro from
rugged mountain TANKS and across canons
and up mar row cross valleys until the high
lands resounded. 1t was as though dozen
fierce batteries had gone into action and
the guns were being rapidly served.
About a mile from the cabin the trail Of
| two large, and presumably hungry, mount
ain lions, entered the indistinos trail that
our comrades had plowed. and followed it.
Deer TRICKS, isolated at first. then becoming
as we gained distance down the
valley. entered the trail 10 such
large numbers that the lion tracks disap-
| peared, beatea into the snow. The trail
made by the blacktails left one track on a
Undiscovered plateau. and ran parallel for
| a quarter of a mile. IL was a deep. well-
beaten track. as though herd of cattle had
| passed in single file.
About noon we arrived among the migrat
ing deer. They stood siDgly. in pairs, and
| IN groups of six or eight We could see the
| beautiful animals distinctly through the
| falling snow and misunderstanding bushes.
| They stood motionless for an instant, gag
| ing at US through beautiful black eyes, and
then one and all would loudly whistle their
| hearty disapproval of our appearance noisily
as they spraug high among the underbrush.
BY the time we had walked, or waded
rather, two miles we were very tired. We
were forced TO rest every 200 yards. Tired,
wet. with heaving chests and hearts beat
| ing strongly, we would YEARLY sit in snow
drifts or on snow-covered logs and wish we
were dead.
Leaning against small tree l saw some
distance ahead small. brownish animal
that was reared against a fre-blackened
pine. The animal was engaged in tearing
Off the half rotten bark that incased the
tree. 1t examined each piece carefully.
Evidently il did not find anything, because
it dropped on all tours and began labori-
ously to wade through the snow toward us.
We walked toward ii. Presently it saw US
and uttered caif-like cry of alarm ana
plunged to the left through the unbroken
snow for about twenty feet. IL would go
no further. Again it cried calf-like, and
then courageously sat up to give battle to
the death.
1t was a cub cinnamon bear, lean and
fully as tired as we were. My heart went
out TO the baby bear as he sat upright in
the snow showing his beautiful white teeth
and gazing at us through blazing, yellow
eyes, and gnarlingly threatening to tear us
limb from limb IL we disturbed him. The
lit chap would not have weighed more
than fifty pounds. Hunger had driven him
into the snow to tear bark from dead trees
10 hopes of finding few worms to eat. As
passed him said, pleasantly:
Hello, bub, your lines have fallen in
tough places ehT
And he growled back q savage greeting
and made delightful bluff to attack us. !
was charmed, and sportively threw snow
ball at him, which be promptly bit into a
PA~NOo
pieces with his paws. And again be cried
aloud was sorry that had leased him,
and muttered, kindly:
II am sorry for you, bub, but you must
ever bear In mind the old saw that young
bears have all their troubles before them,'
and cheer up" and passed on. heard him
cry again, and could almost hear him say:
20. my This is tough on young bears.
Why did not stay with my motherp
-Four o'clock came, and found US sitting
dejectedly in the snow on the bank of a
creek. We were still mile from Wilson's,
and were dead beat. NY comrade could
get to Wilson's If he we're relieved Of his
pack was unable to wade or walk an
| other rod, and resolutely determined to
| sleep in the deep snow by the creeks bank.
urged my comrade to leave me and return
the next morning. l advanced twenty-slx
good and sufficient reasons for his so doing,
| and he. a pig-beaded man, met every log
ical argument, and overthrow it. too, by
repeating like profane parrot the phrase
"I'll be id IL leave you'll"
| sadly realized that 1t was impossible to
reason with pig-headed man and sat deep
In the snow and wondered how it would
| feel to sleep in wet clothes in damp snow
bank, and at odd times cursed my folly in
dragging lame leg into the highlands in
| December.
Hello, boys! How goes itp heard
CHEEKY voice shout briskly. looked up.
| There stood Dan Devious, and behind him
were two horses one of which was saddle
horse named Rowdy, that Is famous though
out the Chelan district as the most Ill,
| favored horse in the mountains. To me he
was the handsomest horse l ever saw. l
embraced him. openly told him that be
was beautiful, and / clambered into the
saddle. My comrades pack was tied on the
| other horsa
Presently we were at Wilson's-and fire
and something to eat Before the moon was
high we were at Chelan lake. The storm
had passed. The lofty white mountains and
the beautiful blue lake glistened in the
bright moonlight, and the trip down the
snow bound Stebekin valley seemed only
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