The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-08-13

arms TO nm ana Crled:
Jack, jack for Gods sake I'm
sure the horsell carry rs both-comel
Jack answered nary word, but
kissed her hand and gave her hoss ono
cut with the whip. Away it went, and
away went Granger alongside, and poor
Jack war left there alone TO diet
"But I'll tell ve one thing-if over !
meet that cuss of Granger agin, III
skin him alive with this yar bowie, You
see ef don't!
oval, it was touch and go with thom
other two; fur afore they cud git to the
clearin the fire cum SO close that their
clothes war putty nigh singcd off EN-
with the flyin sparks. However, they
did git hum ut last aud the folks made
an everlastin fuss over 'em when they
found EN- alive after all. But when
the old dad took his dartcr in his arms
and thanked God that she was spared
to him, the gal bust out a-cryin fit to
break her heart and sobbed OUT
Don't don't, papa. Id sooner have
died fifty times over than have been
saved sol
"And Granger, who'was the only one
thar as knowed what She meant, looked
bout as happy as wolf in Il trap.
However, he warnt the man to be
beat SO easy, he warnt and n couple
nights arter, when the gal had begun to
straighten up a bit arter her scare, he
cum around to whar she was sittin' in
the verandy, and he commenced palav-
erin her agin. She looked up at him
fpr. a 7,,iu4fa as ~ s1,o 1;J,,st L,1e 49,.
derstand what he war aimm at, and
then she clasps her hands with a sort O.
shiver, and cries out, in voice that
warn't a bit like her own:
Never say another word like that
to me-never! I've allowed the bravest
and noblest man that ever breathed to
throw away his life on me--oh, the mis-
cradle coward that l vast
"She'd hardly spoken, when Granger
Civ jump and screeched out:
Gracious heaven there's his ghostr
"And off he went like forty hurri-
canes; and that was the last O him
Gas for the gal, she looked around to
see what had skeered him so; but the
mex minute she felt mighty like maxim
tracks arter him. For there, not ten
yards off, loollin white and ghostly
enough in the moonlight to ha fright
ened blind iacllass, stood the fgger of
Jack HOUSTON!
whether she war gwino TO faint or
to run or what thar amt no sayin, for
fore she cud fix TO do anythin at all the
ghost had his arm around her waist and
giv'hera kiss as didn't feel very ghostly.
"'Oh, Jack, are you really alive after
allT says she, clutchin his arm with
both them little hands O her'n, as if to
be sure that he was actilly thar in flcsh
and blood.
'''Yes, darlin, says he, l,issin her
again.
''And then he told her how he'd man
aged to sarcumvent the fire. When he
war left behind arter they'd rode off
he'd nary hope Of scapin, and his idee
war to save hisself from the pain o.
burnin alive by BLOWN his own brains
/ out
"Jist then his eye fell on the dead
hoss, and a lucky thought cum TO him
/ Quick as lighmin he out with his bowie,
! ripped open the karkiss, scalloped out
( all the inards, and then got inside and
lay snug, like a bar in holler tree.
He hadn't more'n jiat got fixed mp
fore the fire cum swenpin right over
him, hissiu ard roarin like Old Nick,
and maxim cycIythin so hot aud choky
that he felt as ii he cudu't bar it half Il
minute longer, hut he thought o her
and he put through somehow. And
then when the fire had gone by and all
war cl'ar he cum out ag'in.
"There amt no more TO be said. They
war married bout a month arter that,
and they're comm down hyar to have a
look at us all some time this summer,
and eff we don't give EN- the very tallest
kind o blowout when they do come
may be sculped by the fast Injun l
meet! And now let's liquor, for talk
ms dry work. Buffalo News.