The Yale expositor., 1904-11-04

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O.. Saw-we did hustle them saw logs
in! | should rise to remark! Out in
the woods by first streak of day. / re-
call one mornin' she was pretty cold,
and the boys grumbled some about turn
in out. Cold says Tim, you sons Of
guns! You got your chice. 1t may be
too cold for you in the woods, but it's
a blame sight too hot for you in hades,
and you're goin' to one or the other?
And he meant it too. Them was great
days! Forty million n year and not
hitch"
The next morning Radway trans
ferred Molly and Jenny. with little Fa-
bian Laveque and two OF the younger
men, to Pike lake. There earlier in
the season q number of pines had been
felled out on the ice, cut in logs and
left in expectation of ice thick enough
to bear the travoy "dray." 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 AK. Al
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.
faI InI
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 Mcclure 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.
''Kitoh Jenny by dat he't!v he cried to
Pat.
Thus the two mon without exeytion
sustained the noses of the team above
the surface. The position demanded
absolutely no haste, for it could have
been maintained for good half hour
Molly and Jenny, their-sOft eyes full OF
the intelligence of the situation. rested
easily in full confidence. But Pat and
HenIys, new to this sort of emergency,
were badly frightened and excited.
"0h. Lord" cried Pat, clinging des-
perately to Jenny's headpiece, what
will wez be doin'? We can't nfver haul
them two horses on the ice"
TAX de log chain,' said Fabian to
Henrys, IAN tie him around de neck Of
Jenny"
Henrys after much difficulty and
nervous fumhling managed to loosen
the swamp hoek and after much more
difficulty succeeded in making u 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 q 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 tlrem 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 TellHuulSueu uE HOlu. Lie WdlcI
seemed slowly to rise and overfilm the
troubled look of pleading in Moilys
eyes.
"Assassinsw hissed Laveque at the
two unfortunate youths; that was all.
'I suppose it was good deal my
fault" commented Radway, doubtfully
shaking his head after Laveque had
left the office. 81 ought to have been
surer about the ice"
Radway was so confirmed i'm his be-
lief as to his own culpability that he
quite overlooked Fabian's just conten-
tion that the mere thinness of the ice
was i'm reality no excuse for the losing
of the horses. So Pat and Henrys were
not discharged; were not instructed to
"get their time" Fabian I.aveque
promptly demanded his.
II 10 work wild dart fool dat no t'ink
wit hees haidg'
This deprived the camp at once of
teamster ana a team. When you re-
daet that ono natr of horsae takes car