The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-05-02

AS fer matter O that, layin' there
half on my side, l socked my knife so
hard an SO fast into that wolf that he
was a poner fore he could do more
give me that first sock with his teeth
in my shoulder. T'other 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. 1t was me be-
In held fast in the bowels o. the earth,
so to speak. gittin' wedged there
tighter an tighter the more l 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. l knowed that Susan wouldn't
think nothin' O my bein' away not IN
til some time after dark, an then she
couldn't do nothin' till mornin'.
Susan l says, then yell be a
widdern
"Twan't that l was afeard to die
that | felt SO tremendous awful 'twixt
them narrow rocks, but it was the
thoughts O leavin' Susan all alone
on the clearin'. So I'd work away
ag'in, chopin therocks with my knife,
hopin' to make hole big enough to let
me out, but the way | lay l couldn't
git to work where it'd do any good, or
| could done it in time. At last,
after, / guess. three hours O. work, l
was jest petered all out. ] couldn't
hardly raise my head nor my hands no
ho - -,
very mar row O my bones. l don't
know how long laid there like that,
but by an by heered somethin' at the
openin' outside, an then some one hol-
lers' in an says:
"'Be we dead or alive?'
SIT was Susan! OF all things in the
world, Susan. But | mowt know'd
it. Astoundin' woman that she was,
mowt know'd it!
Susan l says, I'm betwixt and
betweenr
Then told her the fix I was in an
how | run into it deliberate an with
my eyes open. Susan, she crept in, an
she took my knife, an she dug. an she
pried, an she Clipped. 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 squeezed my way
out. An me an Susan both sot down
on the snow an Rugged an bellered,
Then by an by Susan got up an
crawled in an dug out the two dead
wolves An how do we s'pose it hap
pened that Susan come along an res
cued me? If she hadn't ben an astound-
in woman she wouldn't ben there
an she'd ben wilder. Not long arter
had left the clearin to go an git Joe
an Sally Ann a deer fer Chris mas,
wolf come sneakin' up an was nosin'
around to git one o Susan's chickens.
Susan discovered it, an bein as sly as
the wolf, she snuck around with her
clothes FOUNDER, an fore the wolf
know'd what wos up, she fetched him
whack with it that sent him endways.
But he was up agin' fore Susan could
! git in another lick, an started fer the
woods. The whack with the clothes
FOUNDER had hurt him so bad that he
couldn't run fast, an what does Susan
do but start on his trail. She could keep
him in easy sight, but couldn't quite
| COillC up Will DllC hcD Oh,
though, hoping that he'd hole up fore
long, an then she'd git him.
As it happened the wolf took a
course that brought him squar to
where t'other wolves had ketched an
tore my buck. Soon as Susan see the
dead buck she know'd what had hap
pened, an the bloody trail leading
/ away from il. an nv tracks on the
trail, kind O. sot her to thinkin', an
she give up the wolf she was chasin'
an took my trail. Consistently she
want wilder, an we had jolly
Christmas at Parks next day, though
we didn't hev no nice fat deer to give
'em for a present. Lord what times
we did usety hev on that clearin'l An
how astoundin' Susan wasr'-N. Y.
Sun.