The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

ne came. down broke Trough the crust.
He kind OF walIoped a. 0und beneath the
and made a nice case 70 the student, and
when he climbed out v e cached the stu
dent there leaving him. some Of our share
Of grub nd tobacco. as he was quite
comfortabl :. but Nigh " drunk.
Then X. =. and / M ade another start,
although Sc eng how CO lmfortable the as
sayer was, i had a gr at notion to stay
with him. Pm glad I didn't for If I
had I'd never seen the start Of K. B. 5
journey on IN other s-sie-
But before we got, % the ridge ] was
Just naturally clean pc tered out K B.
kept at me to b race and get as far as the
ridge. and then I might be able 10 keep on,
because the goil3g would be easier down
Grade. wasn't any use even after. We
got there. I couldn't stand on my feet
q minute longer. althOug ] drank quite
a considerable, TOO; but the sun was out
strong then and che crust was getting
soft.
when X. B. saw that was clean
petered, he says:
9" All right. old fton. III have to cache
YOU for I'm going on
There was little mound Of snow Just
over the ridge on the Downievil'e de
and X .. said it would make a good ave
. 70 cache me In. Well. sir. X. y. stood
above il and jumped for It, landing kin Of
broa ds ide, and then the darndest thing
happened you ever heard of. The crust
around the edge of the mound broke a way
and the mound with <. 3. plump inside
Of It, .oppled over and started down the
side Of the mountain.
TX. 3 IS weight made the ball so heavy
that It kept breaking through the cSust,
which as getting soft, anyhow, and the
ball beca me as big as stage coach in
minute.
Wen. SIT. thought there wasn't any
more laws Of perspective, for the ball
seemed to be as big when il was a mile
down the mountain as it was when it
started; bu 2 that was because IL was
getting bige er as fast as it ought TO
seem to grow smaller in the dist ance
You understa nd?
| could see the houses in Down. aville
away down there, and the SNOWFALL with
x. 3. inside pking straight for the. big
gest Of them. very now and then m AlSing
a clean Jump 6d a hundred yards or so
when a grade sleeper than the av erage
would give it u greater Roadway and
throwing up a '1rail of flying rocks, and
sage brush in way you might not be-
lieve if I hadn't fortunately been tn ere to
see it myself
wen. sir, at last it struck the corae of
that house-it was a solidly built los
homeland split cIean in two. and could
Just see a black speck ny out and land
in a snowdrtft.
"Alf whitehead told. me the rest of it
later he was stang ing IN 'front.' Oh MS
place feeling awful bad, for he had let
his dealer go that morning and he Thought
the Gold Hill stage would at be
over that day. and there would
be no one to deal faro for
him that night. He happened 10 look
up the divide. and he saw that big snow
ball come rolling down the mountain
side to beat hell, saw it tearing up the
sage brush by the roots. and was wonder
ing whether it would. bust the log house
or the log house would bust it, when it
struck split, and X, B. came flying
through the air, and ltnded in snow
drift right in front OF his place as soft
as a kitten in basket
TX b.. just naturally accepted Alfs
invitation to take drink. and then sent
up an expedition. to resclle me, but sent
them on to get the assay e1-. for 1 had no
trouble in getting down then; X. BIS
snowba having made as fine a road as
ever you walked over in your life; not
even a rock or sage brush in IT.
well sir, X. b dealt in Alfs bank that
night. and the new fellow from the Bay
didn't have a player all the boys being
so tickled with the way (. b. has come
into camp that they stuck to his game"