Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-05-19

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away. That meant squall. The west
grew darker and darker. Everything
seemed very still for awhile, and the
a distant roar was heard, and present
" we saw the squal coming up the
river, flashing the water with indescrib-
able fury, and bearing along cloud
of dust and leaves.
There was no chance now but to
swim for life, and this we did with all
our life. We were more than halfway
across the river, when I noticed that
Harry began to show signs of fatigue.
Once he turned on his back and tried
swimming that way, but the water
washed completely over him, and he
came up coughing violently. I swan
close to him, and said, encouragingly:
keep up, old fellow!"
eyes," he replied, with difficulty, "but
I can't get my BREATH
1 got him to rest one hand on my
shoulder for awhile, until he recovered
himself. Then he struck out again, but
in a rather feeble way. We swan some
distance quite slowly, the great, muddy
waves dashing over us all the time.
l saw with dismay that Harry was again
falling behind. I urged him to renew
his exertions, but he only said, family:
"Im afraid 1 can't hold out!''
I helped him all I could, at the same
time imploring him to do his best.
II am doing my BEST" he replied,
bravely.
And few minutes later we were
cheered by a faint but triumphant shout
from Lewis, who had reached shore.
Harry and I felt our feet touch bottom
with a thrill of intense thankfulness.
Now that we were safe, we all felt COM
pletely exhausted, and could scarcely
crawl along.
We were fully mile and half be-
low town. We had no clothes, and the
wind had become quite cold. The near
est habitation was the hut of an old
negro fisherman, who lived by himself
in the woods not far distant. We knew
old Uncle Glenn we'll, and determined
to make our way to his cabin.
After toilsome scramble through
the dark woods, we came upon his hut,
which was brilliantly lit within by a
great wood fire. We knocked at the
door, and old Glenn asked, in a fright
cned sort of way:
''Who's dar?"
''Some of the boys, Uncle Glenn"
''What TO- some oh de boys come roun'
dis time Oh de night?"
ooh, come now, Uncle Glenn, let us
in, and then we will tell YOU.
: After considerable preliminary grum-
bling, we heard the old man draw some
thing heavy away from the door, and
the next instant the red freight flashed
out on two-Lewis having modestly re-
tired within the shadow Of the trees
-shivering, naked bodies, that looked
in the ruddy light like d pair of appa-
ritions from a graveyard. p
The poor old negro, whose sight was
not very good, started back, with an I'm.
earthly yell, and fell over chair in
paroxysm of terror. He vertically be-
lieved that some evil spirits had come
to take him to everlasting torment.
Although we were chilled to the
bone, and faint over our exertion, we
could not resist the absurdity of the
situation, and we all began to laugh,
whereupon Old Glenn stopped bowling
and ventured to look a us more closely.
He knew us well, and when he recog-
nized us, he began to laugh 100, just as
If he had thought the affair immensely
funny from the first.
"But What's yo' close?' he asked,
powerful chilly ebening to be goin'
roun' widout yo' close"
I'VE have not got any. At least, they
are on the river bank up above the
town, if the wind has not carried them
away"
Uncle Glen held up his hands in
dnspeakable amazement. Then he said,
starting toward the door:
It'll hab 'em TO- you, chillen, in les
no time, an den We'll hab supper"
mo, mol" said I. 81 have a better
plan than that. Let us have the sup
per first, and we'll get the clothes after
ward. In the meantime, where is that
suit of clothes I gave you, Glenn, about
a month ago? Let us have that, and we
will get warm here and have our sup
per. Then we can decide about our
next move"
Glenn brought out the suit, his only
stock OF clothing besides what he had
on and we appropriated it among US.
Lewis took the vest and an old shirt;
Harry took the coat, which was much
too large for him, and came down to
MS knees and I took the pantaloons.
Thus attired, we sat down before the
fire and watched Glenn fry the fish, the
bacon and the potatoes while we talked
over the events of the evening.