The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-15

llittle Miss Gladys, was sittin' rooted to
the cushions of her pony cart. But
RuStys muscle development is about
equal to that of -fourteen-year boy.
and. it looks like he's goin' to do more
harm than good when he grabs the
reins from around the whip socket. But
he stands up, plants his feet wide, and
settles back for the pull
Almost before anyone sees his game,
he's done the trick. There's a smash
that sounds like a buildin' fallin' down,
a crackin' and splinterin' of oak wood
and iron, a rattlin' of, trace chains, a
couple of soggy thumps-and when the
dust settles down we sees gray horse
rollin' feet up on either side of a big
maple, and at the foot of the tree all
that's left of that yellow and blue wag-
on. Rusty had put what strength he
bad into one rein at just the right time,
and the pole had struck the trunk
square in the middle.
For minute or so there was a grand
hurrah, with. mothers and fathers rush
in TO grab their youngsters out of the
carts and hug EN-; which you couldn't
blame 'em for dom either As for me-
drops off the back of the coach and
makes a bee line for that wreck, so I'm
among the first dozen to get there. I'm
in time to shove my shoulder under the
capsized wagon body and hold it up.
Well, there amt any use goin' into
details. What we took from under
there didn't look much like a human be-
in, for it was s,s limp and shapeless as
a bag of old rags. But the light-haired
young Teller that said he was medical
student guessed there might be some
life left. He want sure. He held his
ear down, and after he'd listened for a
minute he said maybe something could
be done. So we laid il on one of the
sideboards and lugged it UP to the
house, while some one jumps into a six
ty-horsepower car and starts for a sure
enough doctor
1t was durin' the next ten minutes,
When the young student was cuttin' off
the blue jersey and the ridin pants, and
pokin' and feelin' around that Mr..
Twombiey-Crane gets the facts of the
story. He didn't have much to say;
but. KNOWN what did and seem how
he looked, l could easy frame up what
was on his mind He gives orders that
whatever was wanted should be handed
out, and he was standin' by holdin' the
brandy flask himself when them washed
out blue eyes of Rusty's fiickers open
for the first time
II forgot my-mouth organ" says
Rusty. Il wouldn't of come back-but
for that"
1t want much moren a whisper and
IL was Shaky one at that. So was Mr. /
Twombley-Cra voice kind of shaky
when he tells him he thanks the Lord
he did come back. And then Rusty
goes off in another faint
Next a real doc. shows w. and he
chases US all out while him and the stu
dent has a cOnfab. In five minutes or
so we gets the verdict The doc. saws
Rusty is damaged pretty bad. Things
have happened to his ribs and spine |
which ought to have ended him on .ne
spot. As it is, he may hold out another |
hour, though in the shape he's in he |
don't see how he can But if he could |
hold out that long the doc. knows of an |
Al sawbones who could mend him up |
if anyone could
Then telephone for him at once. and
do your best meanwhile" says Mr.. /
Twombley-Crane
BY that time every one on the place |
knows about Rusty and his stunt. The
front rooms was full of people standin' !
around whisperin' soft TO each other
and iookin' solemn,-swell. heightened |
folks that half an hour before hardly