Year: 1859

waist, ana telling him rs eleefiiy aS |
could to keep cool, GOT him with his
arm round the rcd. IL had, however.
sprung the sapling for i've yards down,
and was 50 loose that Il swayod with him.
and ! expected any minute to see him fall.
ing head and heels down. and The rod
tearing away with him.


There was great hustle down below.
people were running round the yard and
pushing to get in, bat as yet lhere were
bat some score Of men at the foot Of the
chimney. and. hv ai.ass, leati in.s -.
them put somebody on board. and carry
him gently away towards the engine
house. One of the men walked after
with a hat in his hand then knew that
somebody had been hurt by the falling
cradle, and that it must be poor Mr..
Staining, as none ofour men wore hats
Not face was turned up to as.


l learned afterwards that our men
were so taken up with sorrow that so
good a man and SO kind master should
be killed, that for while they had never
thought about Us and the people out
side imagined that We had come down
with the cradle, so thus we're we left in
total isolation for full twenty minutes.


While | was watching them below.
feeling very sorry for my poor master,
was startled by wild laugh from Colly,
who began making catcalls, and yelling
as if be was possessed. Then knew,
Of course, that he was gone mad.


Even now / tremble when think of
that time it was horrible to peer down
the shaft, black and sooty, yawning, and
scarcely less SO to look outside and see n
fightof pigeons sweeping round at con-
siderably less height than we we're
Then Colly--ihank God, he was so
dazed that he could not see me--called
my name three times, as | sat fairly
cringing in dread that his sight might
clear, and with ghastly grin, and chew
ing with his mouth, be began working
himself towards me. / worked awav
from him nuiselessly as | could, with
every hair Of my head standing on end.
He followed ne twice round that horrid
coping, making most hideous noises, and
then being come a second time to the rod.
he got an idea in his muddled head that
was fallen over, for he never lost a
sense of where be was all through this
trying time. Then be tried TO get on
his feet. but at the risk Of my own life,
could not let the poor fellow rush on
certain death without one more effort, and
] cried out for him to sit down, and he
covered down like a whipped dog, all
trembling. I suppose it had been put
into his bead that | was dead man
speaking to him.


That morning my wife had 20! let
ter from her sister in Canada, and as
there were parts We could not make out,
] had pot it in my pocket, intending to
get our time keeper to read il for me- Il
had scrap Of uncovered paper AT the
bottom, and by another good providence,
happened 70 have biz Of red lead
pencil in my pocket. wrote on the pa
per. - Get Us down-Colly's gone mad, -
this ! shut in my tobaceo-box, and was
fortunate enough TO drop It just at the
feet OF couple Of men who we're stand
ing by the engine house door


Directly sll was hustle TO rescue u.s.
They got the kite up again, and watched
It mounting slowly-slowly, and when the
slack irvine fell between Colly and myself
took it in my hand and could have
kissed il. Poor Colly, with bis teeth
chattering, still fancied was a spirit, and
did all could 10 favor that idea until
they got another cradle up TO Us. Then
baFing got him in, l scrambled in myself,
aud clutching him fast, / shouted for them
to lower, and 50 we were got down, be
wrestling end fighting with me all the
way.


lie was ia a madhouse for some months,
and then vent to seavengering, for he new
er could face any height again. and baye
never had the same clear head since that
adventure.