Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-08
By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

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10 bear the travoy "dfay." owing to the fact that the shores of Pine lake were extremely precipitous it had been impossible to travoy the logs up over the hill.
 Radway had sounded carefully the thickness of the ice with an ax. All though the weather had been sufficient ly cold for the time of year, the snow, as often happens, had fallen before the temperature Under the warm white blanket the actual freezing had been slight. However, there seemed to be at least eight inches of clear ice, which would suffice.
 Four logs had been safely hauled. The fifth was on its journey across the lake. Suddenly without warning and with scarcely a sound both horses sank. through the ice, which bubbled up around them and over their backs in irregular rotted pieces. Little Fabian Laveque shouted and Jumped down from his log. Pat McGuire and young Henrys came running.
 The horses had broken through an air hole about which the ice was strong. Fabian had already seized Molly by the bit and was holding her head easily above water.
 "Kitch Jenny by dat he'ty he cried to Pat
 Thus the two men without exertion the, surface. The position demanded absolutely no haste, for it could have been maintained for a good half hour. Molly and Jenny, their soft eyes full of the intelligence of the situation, rested easily in full confidence. But Pat and Henrys, new to this sort of emergency, were badly frightened and excited.
 "Oh, LordP cried Pat cIinging des- perately to Jenny's headpiece, what will wez be doin'? We can't nfver haul them two horses on the ice"
 "Tak' de log chain," said Fabian to Henrys, "an' tie him around de neck of Jenny"
 Henrys after much difficulty and nervous fumbling managed zD loosen the swamp hook and after lsaass.h more difficulty succeeded inf making it fast about the gray mares neck Fabian intended with this to choke the animal to that peculiar state when she would float like balloon on the water and two men could with ease draw her over the edge of the ice. Then the unexpect- ed happened.
 The instant Henrys had passed the end of the chain through the knot Pat, possessed by some Hibernian notion that now all was fast, let go of the bit Jenny's head at once went under, and the end of the logging chain glided over and fell plump in the hole.
 Immediately all was confusion. Jen4 ny kicked and struggled, churned the water, throwing it about, kicking out in every direction. Once a horses head dips strongly the game is over No animal drowns more quickly. The. two young boys scrambled away, and French oaths could not induce them to approach. Molly, still upheld by Fa- btan, looked at him piteously with hex strange, intelligent eyes, holding her self modonless and rigid with com plete confidence in this master who had never failed her before. Fabian dug his heels into the ice, but could not hang on. The drowning horse was more than dead weight. Presently it became a question of letting go or be- ing dragged into the lake on top of the animals. With sob the little French man reiinquished his hold. The water seemed slowly to rise and overf1lm the troubled look of pleading in Molly's eyG&,
 "GGa&assinsy" h1ssed Laveque at the two rHAortunate youths; that was all.
 "I suppose it was a good deal my fault" commented Radway, doubtfully shaking his head after Laveque had left the office. 'I ought to have been surer about the ice"
 Radway was so confirmed in his be- lief as to his own culpability that he quite overlooked Fabian's just conten- } ton that the mere thinness of the ice was in reality no excuse for the losing of the horses. So Pat and Henrys were not discharged; were not instructed to .get their time" Fabian Laveque promptly demanded his.
 'I no work wid dat fool dat no t'tnk wsf <heea haid!1