The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-21

this cove was evidently her home, for as the mother had run toward the dog to attract it's attention and induce the i dog to follow her away from the baby and thus save it, the little thing came hopping along and hid under small
 bush almost within touch of Grant and
 Miss Dent. They talked to it sympa- thetically and assured it that the dog should not injure it if it stayed close to them. They could have caught it, but Grant thought it would be cruel to rob it's mother thus wantonly, and Miss | Dent agreed. He suggested that the mother would be back again as soon as she had lied the dogs dance" over the hills and could then free herself from
 their pursuit by taking to the water And so it happened. Not long after i the cunning little mother came up out
 of the river, having swan down stream i from where she had left the dogs, and | she came softly walking up to within
 a few rods of the place where the bot
 anists were sitting. She stood looking | at them for some minutes, then gave
 stamp with her foot, and instantly
 the pretty little fawn leaped away to | it's mother and they trotted off a few 1 hundred yards and lay down on the l other slope and watched the botanists anG their escort until the slanting rays i of the sun, as it painted in gold and | crimson and purple the young buds
 and leaves and flowers about them, ad-
 monished them to turn their faces l homeward.
 l A yNn11 | do sometimes meet with adventures and young Grant and Miss Dent did
 not wholly escape.
 When the water is high in the Missis-
 sippi the current is swift, and it
 abrades the banks quite rapidly where | they are of alluvial soil-it undermines | them-and they frequently 'cave in
 several yards or rods at time. In the early spring, in one of their afternoon ] explorations. they were riding along
 the bank of the river passing from one
 cove or valley to the mouth of another Miss Dent was nearest the water. The | land was but a few feet above the sur | face of the swift2fowing, turbulent | stream. Suddenly Miss Dents horse , began to sink The earth had given
 way under his hind feet Grants horse
 was close beside hers. In an instant | he saw that her horse was sinking into l the awful abyss! Grants cool head and splendid horsemanship here had l opportunity to display itself. Quick as
 a flash he leaned over, threw his right
 arm around Miss Dents waist and
 drew her to him as her horse instantly disappeared in the seethinS and murky eddy that a moment later boiled and
 surged i'll angry tumult over the place
 where bank and horse had vanished
 from sight!
 | It was a frightful moment! Fortunately the earth parted be-
 tween the two animals, leaving Grants 1 horse on solid ground. Lifting and | firmly holding Miss Dent, and applying ] spur to his horse, he was on safe ! ground in a moment; then he gently 1 lowered her to the earth-all this with
 out a word from "the silent man" or
 a scream or murmur from her.
 As he hastened back to rescue her
 horse she stood holding the bridle of
 his, outwardly as composed as if noth- | ing had happened. Later, when she
 had time to reflect upon the horror of
 the situation, Miss Dent was somewhat nervous. but she did not lose control of 1 herself for moment
 Her horse had totally disappeared Grant followed down stream and hailed
 a boatman in a s1iff, who found the | horse swimming along several hundred