The Washington herald., 1908-07-19
GABES AW-
Full FALL!
He Liked to Of Busted HiSSeIt
but Is Better at This Writ
ing, SiGk8niRg Details
Below

Gaoe snow CT Sorrow Hollow. who
has been helping Hame Watkins through
his haying. had narrer excape from q
ignominious deth from axident on a
Tuesday last. wich viii ever rename
green IN Gabe's memry the longest day
he lives. and wich he VIII think Of with
a terrible lot Of horrer up 70 his dyin
day. and mebby longer.
Gabe and Hame got Up afrly Tuesday
morning about Caybreak and ct a early
breakfast. and set out 10 haul the hay
into the barn. wich they had cut two
days before and had left out 10 cure and
dry out They used a tvvo-horse rizgin
10 haul the hay 10 the barn. and a nav
fork wich Hame had bought new this
spring 10 lift the hay ocen the load and
pull It up to the roof Of the barn and
swing Il over into the now They used
one extra horse 20 pull I'D the hay with
the nay fork. and little Sammy Watkins
he druv the horse to pull UP the hay On
the fork
They had hauled IN several tons and
was unloading a big load from the riggfn
just before dinner Gahe had sfucl, the
hay fork into a big mess OF hav on the
load and had sprung the barhs out, when
ne nOtised that the trigger wasn't work
ing Just as II OFT. so without tafzfn out
the hay fork he set down s-straddle OF
It and begin TO tinker at the thing
tryin to fix It. when they swing TIE
[ hay Up to where they want to drop II
this trigger Is puId by a long cord and
the hay drops ofren the fork kersIap into
Z the NOW. Well, Gabe was a-tiukerfD
away at the hay fork when suddintly a
I bum ble-bee wiCh was btzzin around lii
on the hoss wich puld up the bay fork
and stunE her on the flank, and she lit
out like all sam Hill- and up into the air
went the hay fork with a bunch OF hay
and Gabe hangin onto It for deer life.
| He was too fur Up into mid-afr from the
I load TO jump OF before he saw what had
/ happened. and then he realized all too
! keenly his position. and he turned pale
/ with horrer- His life hung as If BY a
! single strand. as It were, and he kep
I a-goin higher and higher until the hoss
puld the hay fork up sginst the p1,lly-
/ IN the top o. the barn. wich Il hit with a
bump. and the trigger snapt loose and
{ Gabe fell from that dizzy heigth down.
| down lords the barn floor.
/ Gabe's feelings during his descent nav
/ be better described than imaEind He
/ said afterwards that he thought he was
/ descending to his dune and that nothinx
I could save him. He says he short OF
al the sins wich he had ever done. and
regretted all to late that he hadn't lived
a better and nobuIler life.
! 4
! for goodness sakes do somethink to save
him. but Hame didn't know what TO do,
and he wouldn't OF had time to OF did
Il anyhow. because this all happened
! quicker than we can set Il down. and
we are s purity fast writer IN a pincb.
Z too. But as Gabe bizzed Downward
I through the air he stin set on top OF
the hay wich had been on the hay fork.
and II was this pusiianimous little bunch
OF hay whot saved his worthless Ufe.
Being as the hay was under him 4
struck the barn floor first and let Cabe
down a little might easier than he would
OF struck II there hadn't OF heen no hay
there. But as It was. he struck hard
enuff and bounced up into the air agfn
about ten feet and landed in a spring vvag-
gin wich was to one side Of where he
lit Gabe got on his feet and felt OF his
! self all over 10 see that no bones was
broke. and be coughed a couple OF times
&c see II he was injured internal. and
( being as he felt ali right he was terrible
surprised. because he thought sure ne
9 was kid or injured fer life
They wasn't nothink LEFT 70 do but &C