Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-04-14

guns. We had lit out 50 fast that all
the grub was left in camp. We knowed
that with the shape of the mountain
there want no danger of the Indians
gcttin to us, for we could stop them
as fast as they tried to come up. But
we was worried as to the grub ques-
ton.
indians amt no fools, even IL they
act like 1t sometimes, and them Nava.
joes soon made up their mind that we
had mighty little grub with us. They
found that out from the looks of the
camp and, as they knowed that noun
tain as well as we did, they didn't try
to come up it.
For couple of days we got along
all right. We was hungry, of course,
but we amused ourselves poppin at the
Indians whenever they showed from
cover, and when we hit one, as we did
now and then, 1t was almost as good as
a meal. At least we tried to think it
was.
But an empty stomach is a pretty
tough thing to forget, and we were be-
ginnin to wonder how long we could
hold out, when one mornin we seed
the Girl of Wild Horse Rum She was
a-comin along our trail at the foot of
the mountain. 1t was evident that ske
didn't know that the Indians was there,
but knowed they was out and was
comm to warn us in general way.
LAS soon MS we seed her we did our
best to let her know that she was ridin
into quick trouble. We started
smudge with blanket and fred a cou-
pie of shots to attract her attention.
She saw we was on the top of the
mountain, and she knowed we was
there for our health, SO she turned and
lit out.
"The Indians seen her about that
time, and they took after her. She had
a good two mile the start, but her pony
had been on the road for some time,
and 1t was gettin tired. Still there Is
lots of spunk in good mustang, and
we all hoped that she would get away
all right. AS she went down the valley
we could see that she was not headin
for the Run, but for the stage station,
which was good 20 mile away We
was doubtful about her pony holdin
out ag'in the fresh ones of the Indians
for that distance, but there want moth
in we could do to help her, and so we
staid where we was.
ut seemed to make the Indians kind
Of wrathy to have had her comm round
that way, and they began takin chance
shots at us. They didn't hit any Of us,
but they made us lie low where before
we had been standin up and movin
round pretty much as we pleased.
"All the rest of the day we didn't do
much but wonder how that there girl
had come out of the fix she was in. 1t
was all done to help us, and we know
ed 1t, and that made us feel like we
was responsible for her. Wonderin
didn't do no good, but we was still at
1t when we heard shot down the val
ley. 1t didn't come from where the
Indians had camped, and we lighted a
fire as a signal like. When the fire
blazed up, there was some more shots.
1T was kind Of dusky in the mornin
then, and we couldn't see we'll, but we
soon made out about so men comm up
the valley. In minute we seed they
was white men, and then we knowed
we was all right.
1--WE come down from that mountain
almost as fast as we went up it, but
the Indians was gone. They had va
moosed durin the night. When we
tn <ho
was lot Of freighters from the sta.
ton. The girl was there, they said.
She had beat the Indians out in the
race, but she was in pretty bad shape,
for she had one bullet clean through |
her, and another had broke her arm.
1--WE went to the station as fast as
we could. When we got there, we seed
there was nothln we could do. 1t was
too late for anything but to tell her we
knowed we owed our lives to her. She
was too weak to say anything in an
swer when we told her. So we just |
sat around and wet her lips when they
got dry and tried to do what we could |
to make her easier.
"She seemed to know all that was 60 |
In on, and one of the eastern men |
thought it might make her feel easier |
II somebody prayed. So he, bein the
only one who knowed much about it,
tried it, and we all kneeled down. He
told us how we all knowed that the
girl was dyin because she had give her
life to save ourn, and he told the Lord
that we hoped that, If it was possible,
he would fix 1T so that she wouldn't die.
ut was good prayer for a man who
amt in the business professionally,
and it seemed to do the girl good, for
when he flashed and we got up there
was smile on her lips. But it was
the last smile that was ever there, for
she was dead
eve buried her under cottonwood
across from the station and not far
from the stage road. Then we put the
rocks over the grave, for you can't tell
what sort of creeturs are round here"
They gave up the old stage line years
and years ago, and the cd adobe sta
ton has fallen down in parts, and the
ruins are roofless and forlorn. But the
grave is still there, and every freighter
who passes along the old trail and }
knows what the pile Of stones means (
lifts his sombrero to the memory of the
"Girl of Wild Horse ."-EXchange.
His New stove.
Old Hi Drew, who lives in village
not 40 miles away, came into town last
week on the sly to buy birthday gift
FOR his wife. He cast about vigorously
and struggled in valiant way through
The crowds, finally being washed