The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-14

3 not seriously effect them.
r A few days afterthe younger one had
, shown signs Of dementia they had the
good fortune to catch more rabbits and
> his mind again, after his hunger had
become partially stayed, became
: less clouded. Then the older brother
began to realize that it would take all
the force OF his will power to retain his
senses. Every sleeping moment was
disturbed with the most vivid dreams.
/ One night heimagined his mother came
and talked to him. She realized the
4 peril they We're in and expressed her
fears that they would perish. He tried
to reassure her and told her they would
certainly 6nd the came the next day.
These dreams, when he thought ofthem
when awake, made him realize the dam
ger of losing his mind and made him
determined to use every effort to bold
his mental faculties. In the mean time,
while they were both growing physic-
ally weaker the younger brothers. mind
again grew stronger and their hope of
final rescue seemed 10 revive.
The island is fifty-four miles long.
From their estimate of the distance they
had travelled to reach the lighthouse
they concluded that they must have
been cast ashore about midway of the
island. They now thought, from the
length of time they had been wander
ing northward, that they must have
travelled nearly the whole length of the
island. Surely they could not have
passed busy mining camp on narrow
island or they would have seen some
signs of its existence. The port or har.
Dor where men and supplies were land |
ed, tracks of hunters, or some other |
signs of human life would surely have
been revealed. Only one conclusion
could be arrived at. They must follow
around the head of the island and back
toward the point where they were cast
ashore. They kept on. They we're
growing so weak that the end must
come soon. They got out on the lake, a
hundred yards or more from shore, be-
cause it was less wearisome to wade
through the snow on the ice than to
wade through tho snow and rocks and
brush on the shore. They were slowly
moving along one forenoon when the
elder brother remarked to the younger:
This is my last day | will die to-
night" The younger replied: "Never
say die, let US fight it out till the end.u
A few minutes later the Younger BROTH 7
sr asked: us not that smoke see yon-
Ter ?" Both looked, and to their inf
lite JOY, apparently about four miles off
hey surely could discern column of
moke rising in the air, which was then
,lear and still. Instantly their hopes
evived. But, strange to say, instead of
living them renewed energy, they both
ost strength and were 30 weak that
hey could not walk. Their oyercoats
'ecame burden. Their carefully cher
shed bundle of sticks, in which they
lad kept the sparks of fire, which had :
oubtless enabled them to keep the vi
al spark in their own bodies, was
brown aside. sThey took off their over
oats, for the first time since they had
cen lost, and laid them down where
hey could be seen and recovered, and
arted on. Their knees and their legs
afused longer to do duty. They were !
20 weak and too excited to walk. They
IL down on their hands and knees and
-awled.
Suddenly the elder brother, looking T
head, exclaimed 81 see a cabin =, -
9th look ed, and half mile back on ~
'e shore they could see the end of a
anty with siovepipe sticking out of
e roof. They made for il, still crawl
& on their hands and knees They
ade only slow progress, and the
unger one gave up, declaring he could -
no further, and began cursing every 1
ing because no one at the sbauty saw i
EN- and came to help them. Encour-
ed by the other, he crept on again. A
ndred yards from the cabin was thus
ached, crawling. Then both in their
element grew strong, rose to their "
It and ran. They pushed open the II
or and ran in. A man was inside ID
him they took no notice On the
lie was half an onion and piece of
lnny cake. The FIRST one in snatched
both of these and tried to cram both ,..,
them into his mouth at one time On
cupboard shelf was another piece Of
n bread. The other one seemed 10
ow where it was without looking In
ntly he was trying to cram it all in ~
mouth. The n'an in he house, see q :,
too snch wild, hlackened. be- NJ