The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-01-15
ALICE wISHART IN INDIA.
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pols, because we both pumped
down together. E, B, followed
the best she could-t the guard did
not renew his offer to help and
somehow the luggage was pulled
out and eventually gotten into the
waiting room, the Oak (mail
train moved on, and we were
left alone in the dark!
Because of a misunderstanding
there was no conveyance to meet
US, but the station master thought
he could perhaps induce some
villager to take US in his cart,
which he did. | heard the cart
man addressed as ''Tum ullu
admi" (you son of an OWL, and
he proved true to his title and
about as much sense as
an owl at driving a pair of con-
t~rary-minded oxen in one of the
wonderful vehicles they use here,
which looked like a relic of the
flood. All the soft bedding we
had, with pillows, was packed in
on top of the boxes and we start
ed, E. B. walking and | perched
somewhere on top of things like
a grass-hopper on a feather bed.
There were many chances to hop
all right, as the road was the
usual jungle track, made a little
worse than usual by the recent
rains. The zulu admi" never
thought of lodging the stones,
but cheerfully dashed over rocks
bigger than your head with a
nonchalance that was amazing.
The first river to cross we picked
our way on stepping stones, the
second had too much water to
wade and steep banks, so we
were obliged to stay in and an
ticipate being either submerged
or thrown from the cart like shot
from a sling. The third was a
very wide, dry bed of burning
rocks, so we managed to scram-
BILE over and shut our eyes to the
probable fate of the cart and
driver. Every lane has its turn
and by noon we had a
smooth, level stretch through
jungle underground. |
for a tiger or a leopard to
pop out his head, but there was
nothing more exciting than mon
keys, jackals, and wild peacock.
The tiger had promenaded the
day before, both he and Miss
Savage thought we were coming
On the 7th instead of the Sth.
Dur hostess was too astonished
to speak when she saw us.
over the probable effect
If those rocks on adhesions she
had sent one of her men to a sta
below where we got out,
a letter saying to go on to
Dehra, as she could not get dandi
men and she feared the risk
would be too great over the sew
IN miles to her bungalow, but a
Kind Providence kept US from
getting the letter and helped us
10 see the funny side of the stu
alton, which made the journey
easy.
If you have any patients with
his interesting malady of mine
you might order as a remedy a
good sound jolting over rocky
beds, for l was apparently
none the worse, though tired, to
De sure, sleeping 16 hours a day
or the next fortnight. The air
vas so fresh and invigorating
hat it seemed to lift one up to
he treetops, in spirit at least.
| have a comfortable room
which | use only as a dressing
as | live and sleep on a
ong veranda looking off to the
On the other side of the
ledge is a patch of red peppers,
nterspersed with blue Mexican
'verlasting, and through clumps
f bamboo and banana trees can
zee fields of golden grain waiting
o be cut. All afternoon the
'reeze whispers through a big
Ield of tall sugar cane, and bril-
liant butterflies futter over the
bed. Across another
.reen hedge in the vegetable
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