The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-05-26
Henrys, new to this sort of emergency
were badly frightened and excited.

Henrys, new to this sort of emergency.
were badly frightened and excited
"Oh, Lord" cried Pat, clinging des-
perately to Jenny's headpiece, what
will WEI be dom? We can't niver 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 funbling managed to loosen
| the swamp hook and after much more
difficulty succeeded in 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 a 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 so 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. Jen-
| ny kicked and struggled, churned the
water, throwing it about, kicking out
| in every direction. Once horses
| head dips strongly the game is over.
| No animal browns more quickly. The
two young boys scrambled away, and
French oaths could not induce them to
| approach. Molly, still upheld by Fa-
bian, looked at him piteously with her
| strange, intelligent eyes, holding her.
self motionless 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 relinQuished his hold. The water
seemed slowly to rise and overflm the
troubled look of pleading in Molly's
eyes.
"Assassins!"' Kissed Laveque at the
two unfortunate youths; that was ALL
II suppose it was good deal my
fault" commented Railway, doubtfully
shaking his head after Laveque had
left the Office. 81 ought to have been
surer about the ice"
Railway 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; We're not instructed to
''get their time" Fabian Laveque
promptly demanded his.
IL no work wild dat fool dat no t'ink
wit hees haidr'
teamster and a team. When you re-
feet that one pair of horses takes care
Of the exertions Of a crew OF sawyers.
several swampers and three or four
cant hook men you will readily see
what 4 serious arrangement their loss
would cause
Railway did his best. He took three
days to search out a big team Of farm
horses. Then it became necessary to
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he decided to advance Bob Stratton to
the post, that decker" having had
more or less experience the year before.
Erickson, the Swede, while not a star
cant hook man, was nevertheless sure
and reliable. Railway placed him in
STATIONS place. He remembered
Thorpe.
So the young man received his first
| promotion toward the ranks Of skilled
labor. He gained at last field of ap-
plication for the accuracy he had so in
telligently acquired while roadmaking,
for now a false stroke marred a saw
log; and besides, what was more to his
taste, he found himself near the actual
scene of operation-at the front, as it
WERE
Here he learned why and when the
sawyers threw tree up or down hill,
| and how small standing timber they
tried to fell it through, what consider
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