The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-31

man from the tother. but Il was Jim
Lung who stayed behind TO do what
ever he could About 5 O'Clock in the
afternoon my fever went off and got
my senses back, but I was dreadful
weak. Jest knowed that the blamed
heather was giving me drink and nurs-
ing me up, but / didn't seem TO care
whether died or got we'll It had bin
rainin' purity steady fur three weeks,
and had bin well should hev bin q
leetle narvous about landslip. Bein'
as was the idea never worked into ny
head"
I'm following you," I said as he
paused
wall, I'd jest got woke mp, as II war,
when the heather began to act narvous-
l didn't notice it so much then. but it
cum to me afterwards. He'd run to the
door and take squint and then run
back and fuss around me, and finally
the cuss-who was a powerful Teller in
them days-picked me up. rolled NE u0
in a rubber blanket and walked out
doors and started up the trail was
like one in a dream I sorter knowcd
what he was doin'. and yit I didn't
struggle nor ask question We hadn :
gone a hundred feet when Jim Lung
uttered yell and next thing I realized
we seemed TO take wings and f.
through the air, while thar was a
roarin' in my ears like gale makes
among the pine trees. Kin you guess
what it was?"
"A landslide?"
Bet yer life il was. See, II was
over a mile broad by two miles long,
and my cabin was plumb in the middle,
but only three hundred feet below
whar' she started from. Jim Lung had
waited too long The slip picked US
up, and I'm tellin' you straight when
say that that burned yaller-hided sun
of gun, holdin' me in his arms as you
hold baby, was given free ride the
hull length of that slip and brung up
in that fringe of cedars You see stretch
in along yonder. l tainted away about
the time we started, and next thing 1
knowed it war dark and my pard was
thar beside me. So was Jim Lung. l
hadn't even lost piece of hide, but the
heather had bin hurt about the hips
and back and crippled fur life. We
went down along with powders and
trees and bushes and thousands of tons
of earth, and how we escaped is some
thin no man kin tell Jim thinks he
kept his feet all the way down, but
jest imagine that both of us played cir
Gus in way never witnessed by mortal
man before"
did the cabin go?''
ibid III Why, man. we never found
a splinter as big as a toothpickl A
year ago, in sinkin' shaft up
thar by the trees, some fellers cum
across u bar'l of one Of our guns.
Thar was thirty-four feet of rock
and earth above it. If we'd been in that
cabin nobody would hev ever seen hide
or hair of us till Gabriel got ready to
blow, and then we'd hev probably
showed up only piece at time. Most
people think I'm lyin' as it is, but thar's
the slip up thar to speak fur itself, and
here's Jim Lung to tell his side of the
story. Does anybody 'spose I'd be fool
huff to adopt squint eyed, yaller hided
heather fur brother onless l owed
him a debt money couldn't pay That
amt me-"
And you intend to take care Of him
for the rest of his life?"
''Allus, as long as live and he lives,
and if die fust he'll be purvided for in
decent fashion. He's a heather, but
that's all on the outside. As / told you
before it's the inside machinery that
differs from the rest OF his race BY
some mistake he was given a soul, and
gaul durn his pig-tail II l don't stand
by him and take good keer of him till
the Lord parts US to meet agin on the
other side of the great divide."-N. I.
Herald