The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-13
With the Long Bow
Eye natures walks folly II flies"
Eolley NJ d. Man Who Beat His Runaway Horse Home on
q Ten-Mie Jaunt Across the Wind-swept Prairie by
Showing How Yankee Ingenuity Was Enabled
to Give the Dumb Crtter the Laugh.
Eye natures walks, shoot

to Give the Dumb crtter the Laugh.
REMARKABLE adventure befel Tolley N. D.. man
a last week. While the Toley Topics did not have re-
porter on the spot, and printed the story but
without those sdelghts and highghts that the incident
to demand.
Michael Pattison young farmer Toley, driv-
ing home in his sleigh the prairie The wind mad
beaten the snow, the had melted the top
LAYERS and cold nights had frozen the until there
crust on the that would bear mans weight The
horse remembering the barn, making rapid time for
home when the sleigh into thankyou-ma am and
remained there The horse and shafts went on home.
Pattson stood the road stamped his feet and cussed
the luck fierce wind blowing in the direction OF
and he had about made his mind that it would
be fairly easy work to walk the ten miles When an loea
struck him. 1t a ifesaver
Patson pulled the sleigh out Of the rut and dragged It
out prairie The wind fierce that the sleigh
would almost skid along Of itself But Pattson with two
stats and wire rugged up the lap robe SAIL
the craft running start jumped and at slip
ping the prairie like iceboat The only trouble
that there certain to guide the craft But
Pason hung leg out behind and did little steer
Ing with it. Fortunately the wind in exactly the right
quarter would have do some lying about how Pat
tison "tacked.'
Facts compel us to admit however, that the wind
right The craft quickly overlook the astonshed horse who
had now reduced himself to and left him midtown
ir distance In fact the sleigh and occupant arrived
home twenty minutes ahead Of the BRUTE and in snubbng
up banged into the barn that it frightened the
When the hero Of this tale told it the streets Of
FOLEY the Toeyans started little and looked surprised
Some them whsted softly and looked meditatvey away
at the horizon. Others doubted r..
The Becker (Mnn) Record man to the barber
shop subscription found it closed
He indignant that he roasted the barber editoray
In this fashion: .=-
Everybody inquirg what has become of barber lately
There fine opening for good barber here and the one
trade we hope will locate here
On the editors next shave the barber is likely to
the he trimmed his nails with.
Many of us have often that will not
read novel without turning to the last page to
If 'he' takes her'' in his and mumrrs ''mne at
ast' When this good old, time -honored ending,
sit comfortably down with the book and with firm trust
Providence, we read it straight thru
When the hero seems to be ''a n' when the heroine
is in her faales tange not disturbed for know
that all is well and that there in the last page he and
s'her'' the only two mice in the pantry.
In the villain told in vain by the heroine to
avaun Tho he utterly refuses to avaunt it does not at
all matter We know that the last page he occupies
minor place accidental fly speck. For has not Chez
her in his and is not the world the careless harsh
houghtles world shut outq Of isl You know
SO why cavil?
If could only look ahead and that things
coming out all right lives you say might be easier
to live them But that, deae is just where faith
in If you believe God is writing this universal story Of
which you the hero the heroine you ought to have
enough good Judgment as an author to have
what they call "fah.'' So things go along easy and nat
uray with you and you not particularly worried when
the villain gets perniciously active and laughs his low
chuckng laugh For His Viainous Nibs certain to get
good plentiful jolt and that, dearie is what they call
'he Here hereafter it makes little difference which,
the dark mean low villain with his coat trimmed with curly
fur going to get it where he lives. And sorry
him aren't we; of But what long time he
has to get wise to the fact that he horse chestnut
nifty very long, that the villain with fur his coat
has time enough in it to take fall himself.
perhaps, he'll be good-just like At any rate let's
hope "A. j. R.