The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-15

u ~. In March the year OF IS. Four
-, urrr camping In Maine by the side
s.uo,.ebrad lake. II was one autumn
..,,rinr ina, Johnny Mack said TO the
a., Loy,, II think Il would be good
a.. a mt pipe from the spring,
fssb "A, few wards away.
IN other boys laughed at him ana
"a .p,b,vl what's the use; It's still
- weather. and wen never need II.
Iolrny thought about II while, then
Iii sent hy the tote-man to have
s.,r,n built. One afternoon johnny
=. s,krd by one Of the boys, named
Ed Thomas. 10 20 with him TO where
4, tote.man lri, supplies for the camp,
nd thew brought II back. They set II
m befofr the others got back from their
kan,ing -.
Twrtbins went well with their hunt
No. tfapping. and fishing, until one
afternoon Johnny said, There's gong
"a Il storm and big one, too.
Pete, the guide, said, Il know about
bf weather signs better than you city
bow do"
Nevertheless Johnny got Tom Brown
10 belp him get in the deer meat and
e,btr pieces of meat which they had hung
Nm m on the limb of tree, and
kbotty chunks of wood lying around.
Tben they went in while the others were
au.hng and poking fun at them.
will Stevens went down to the lake TO
nj me Ak which he left. When he got
Saek he exclaimed. "Whew, it's showing
Ike ,iytym He was covered with large
sske, Of snow from head to foot. The
ground wa, covered with blanket OF
white One of the boys laughingly re-
marked, Il guess Johnny's blizzard is
already here
Being very tired they bunked in early
that night. Pete woke up as early as
usual the next morning, but it was dark.
He said to himself, "Its still quite early,
| guess" so he rolled over and took
another nap.
After a while Tom Brown woke up,
but it was still dark. 81 wonder what
time it is" he said as he struck match
His watch said Q o'clock. !,
d guess my watch is not right SAID
be.
"lIy there what time is it by your
watch" he asked as he woke up Pete.
ITS o'clock" said Pete. /,
swell, we're blockheads staying abed
this late" said Tom. BY that time they
were all up. !,
q wonder what's the NATTER SAID
Pete as he tried to get the door Open
"Any of you fellows lock the door" he
asked
swell, YOU wait minute, till we get
dressed and get fire." said Johnny, for
he had an idea of what was the matter.
They dressed quickly and then built a
fire in the fireplace. Pete looked al
the latch and it was not locked.
"WelL" said Johnny, "I'll bet we're
showed in"
Will looked and sure enough there was
The snow piled up at the window
well, hrrah, showed under" said Will
Say Johnny, it's good thing we've
got running water" said Pete.
We've got a lot of wood in the shed
and plenty of provisions and some nice
games" said Fred.
Johnny, your blizzard was quite
blizzard after ALL" said Tom. Snow FOL
Some breakfast"
1t gave viii Stevens a chance to sho"
now well he could cook.
They discovered that it would have
eetn better to have the door open in
out as it was it opened out. If it hao
opened in they could have opened tht
uoof and showed the snow away SO a.
70 make their way out. They wert
showed in three days. On the secont
came warm rain and the snow wen
uOwh below the window.
The third day Tom, the smallest II
we went out the window and to hi!
surprise there was a hard crust. !,
Inc others passed out picks and shovel
snu other tools to him. He shoveled tn
snow away from the door. 1t took hin
long time, but at last it was done ane
~ lei the prisoners out of their prison
fete said that in all his life ne hat
atVef seen such blizzard around tina
parI Of the country. -.
I'VE did not have bad time after all
ua We" said Tom.
.;. Nnen they got old they never 60
uitu of telling about how they wer
Showed in