The daily Alaskan., 1913-06-10

Itwas st. Patucgs day in tho morn
 mg Mrs Mulcohey dressed her son
 Pat eleven years old, lu h.a best suit
 and put a bit Of green ribbon ia Che
 but,ouboIe of his jacket After mass
 Che ORourgc children came over to . Che Mulcahcys to play with lttle Pat There were Tommy O'RourEe, seven
 years old, and Nora, who was nine. | They, too, had green ribbons on their ! breasts. and Mrs Muicahey setting
 them an down In a row. told them stO- ! r.es Of the patron saint of Irallnd-h0w
 he d.d away with tho slavery of tue
 lower people and how be rescued the
 country from a false religion and es- ! abolished che true church. She also tuId lhem 0C Che wonderful miracles ! done by st. Patrick and the many pe0. pie he saved from some Impending danger
 Everybody knows Chat SC. PauicE8 day falls on tho 1Tth Of March and that ! che l7h 0t March is near Che begin. ming of spring In the southern states sometimes it ls pretty warm ot that dmc and che su0w melting farther north. weIs Che creeks. and the creeks swell tlc rivers, and occasionally they have what ls called an Iuundauon l It happened that on this st. patrIcEs day where these children lived they bad am nuudauon. The O'RourEe chIl- ! dron went home from tbc Mulc0heys about 8 o'clock In the afternoon and found che water, which had not been ! within ho0fo mile or them in the morn. Ing. was now a foot deep an around the house. They thought lg lots of fun Go ! hold up ghgr clothes and walk iu thc water to tuglr front door Their mother . being out0t work, Tommy made raft
 of some old b6ards be found floating In
 ghe cellar and chen they had a dne dme pushing themselves around with ! a clothes pole
 Bu, che water kept getting deeper and deeper SO that before dark Che lower floor Of he house was covered
 with water
 The flood began to look serious to the children, and they wished their mother would come home But she had been at work during the day at house . built on lower ground than her home and when Che waters came up she was obliged to stay and help the persons living there to move out their effects. ! so when night came on she hUd not come home. and Dy ths time a bridge over which sh8 must pass had been washed away and she was prevented from going farther
 ! so Nora lighted lamp and she and Tammy climbed the stairs to thc sec. oud story to get away from thc water Tommy began to be frightened, but ! Nora told hIm that there was no req son Co be scared. At any rate, f they were In danger the good saint that Mrs. 1IuIcahey hld been telling them about iu tho morning would take care 0E them But Che water kept coming higher and higher and after awhile they heard something crack below, and he house began to rock. Being Of wood. 't had been lifted or its l0undo. ! u0n and was udoat
 Mother" ald u.ue Pat Mulcahey chat night "we're lucky to be on this high ground"
 "yes we are res dreadful to think
 of people in the valley"
 or wonder how It at Che O'R0urkes"
 "I don't know"
 'Tm going out to have look" Don't you SO rar" said the mother uE.ousIy
 ! pgtwgug down toward the O'ROurkcs butwheu stun some distance from there bc was stopped by ,bc Hood In che direction Of their house he saw light slightly rocking. as though il were In a ! boat An sorts of orticlcs-boards, fur nituro and other things chat would Hoat=wcro slowly drifting about Pat was worried about his two little friends and wished for a boat in which to go and sec how they were getting 0u. But there was no boat at hand ! Presently Che light he had seen 0p. ncareI to be drawing nearer Pat watched lt as lt came on, and after awhile he could look Into window Some person or persons were inside, but the boy could not distinguish who ! they were Tho house dr.gtod to with . in hundred feet Of him, when lt evil. ] dcnuy grounded, for it didn't come any
 nearer Then Pat heard a child crying.
 A IurEe board had Go0tcd near Pat and be resolved to go out to .ho house
 so be got some small pieces of wood ! for paddles aud pulled out Coming to ] a second story window he put in his head
 Tommy" cried a girls voice, we're
 saved. Here's st. Patrick come to . take us to land"
 "rm Pat" said the lIttIe rcscuer
 "but Pm not tdo saInL"
 "Oh, Pat Is It you," cried Nora, TO- ] ueved "and have you come in bootT
 "No, Two come on a board"
 "My gracious g0odnessi We can't
 SO away on a board"
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