The Greenville times., 1895-05-04

As fer a matter O. that, layin' there
half on my side, I socked my knife so
hard an so fast into that wolf that he
was goner fore he could do more'n
give me that first sock with his teeth
in my shoulder. Tother wolf was dead.
knew, or he'd been maxim some kind
OF fuss. So wolves didn't cut no figger
In the situation at all. II was me be-
In held fast In the bowels o. the earth,
so to speak, gittin' wedged there
tighter an tighter the more I tried to
get myself loose, an no more chance o.
anyone comm by there than there was
o. them rocks openin' Of their own
sells an lettin' me out. The weather
was overpowerin' cold an gettin
colder. knowed that Susan wouldn't
think nothin' o. my bein' away not un-
I'll some time after dark, an then she
couldn't do nothin' till mornin'.
Susan says, then yen be
widder.'
"Twan't that l was afeard TO die
that felt so tremendous awful 'twixt
them narrow rocks, but 1t was the
thoughts O. leavin' Susan all alone
on the clearln. So I'd work away
Tagin, chopin therocks with my knife,
hopin' to make hole big enough to let
me out, but the way lay couldn't
git to work where it'd do any good, or
| could a done 1t in time. At last,
after, l guess, three hours o work,
was Jest petered all out. couldn't
hardly raise my head nor my hands no
more, an the cold was eatin' in to the
very mar row O. my bones. don't
know how long laid there like that,
but by an by heered somethin' at the
openin' outside, an theA some one hol-
lers In an says:
"'Be ye dead or aliveT
"Itwas Susan! OF all things in the
world, Susan! But l mowt a knowd
It. Astoundin woman that she was, I
mowt know'd II!
"Susanr | says, I'm betwixt and
between'
Then told her the fx was In an
how run into II deliberate an with
my eyes open. Susan, she crept in, an
she took my knife, an she dug, an she
pried, an she chipped. She KEEP It up
fer an hour, an made room enough fer
me to turn in. A few more chips an
chops an pryin' an l squeezed my way
out. An me an Susan both sot down
on the snow an hugged an bellered.
Then by an by Susan got up an
crawled in an dug out the two dead
wolves. An how do ye s'pose 1t hap
pened that Susan come along an res
cued me? II she hadn't ben an astound'
In woman she wouldn't ben there
an she'd ben a widder. Not long arter
had left the clearin to go an git Joe
an Sally Ann deer fer Christmas,
wolf come sneakin' up an was nosin
around to git one O. Susan's chickens
Susan diskivered It, an bein' as sly as
the wolf, she snuck around with hei
clothes FOUNDER, an fore the vol
knowd what wos up, she fetched hin
, a whack with II that sent him endways.
. But he was up agin' fore Susan could
I Git In another lick. an started fer the
!, woods. The whack with the clothes
pounder had hurt him SO bad that h'
. couldn't run fast, an what does Susar
= do but start on his trail She could keel
him in easy sight. but couldn't quite
: come up with him. She KEEP on
a though, hoping that he'd hole up Tore
!, long, an thea she'd git him.
I "As It happened the wolf took
I course that brought him squar t'
n where t'other wolves had ketched an
: tore my buck. Soon as Susan see thu
4, dead buck she know'd what had hap
. peued, an the bloody trail leading
, away from it, an my tracks on TN
4 trail kind o sot her to thinkin'' an
she give up the wolf she was chas,n
an took my trail. Consekently sh' %,
n want a widder, an we had 1on;
. Christmas at Parks next day, thougl
= we didn't hev no nice fat deer to Civ
r. 'em for a present. Lord what time
a we did usety hev on that clearin,l An !,
how astoundin Susan wasF'-S' I
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