Year: 1872

time to look up and see that pine tumbling
down, when dropped my axe and ran.
couldn't have got far when something seemed
to hit my eyes, and then everything was dark.


81 suppose | was dead"


"Maybe you don't believe, boys; but that's
all can make out Of it. All at once the
light the looks of the snow on the ground,
everything was shut out from my sight.
There was kind of an uncertain feeling, just
as fellow has when he's asleep. | knew
something awful had happened, but [ could
not stir hand or foot. 1t seemed as though
it was night, and that l was covered up by
something that pressed heavily on me. Still
there wasn't any particular pain, and tor
long time couldn't think where | was. How
long staid there can't tell [ suppose it
wasn't long, when 1 felt somebody pull my
arm and l heard Jim Robinson say:


90, Lord Poor fellow"


81 knew he was there, and I could feel him
touch me; and yet could not speak or open
my eyes. He thought was dead. Then
wondered if all dead folks could hear and
think as | did. 7 tried to move my hands
I tried to scream but couldn't do anything.
Jim left me and the next remember of, was
pulled out from under the tree and hauled to
the shanty on one side of the sleds. You may
bet there was considerable excitement among
the boys when I was taken into camp. l
could feel that 1 was dead. My heart didn't
beat-I couldn't move; but 1 could hear,
and had kind of misty notion about every
thing that was going on about me.


"Some of the boys, after feeling my forrud,
wanted to send for the doctor.


"Its no use, boys" said the boss, "the poor
fellows gone His neck was broke The
most we can do for him is to take him home to
his folks"


"Well, they laid me out on one of the
sleighs, and fixing me up in as decent way
as corpse could be in lumber camp, one
of the teamsters started with me for Oshkosh.


II first didn't realize just how bad the situ-
alton was. When it began to leak into my
head that I was really dead, and was to be
buried in the ground, and shut out forever
from the light of the sun, it frightened me.


"The long ride to Oshkosh passed like those
things that happen in dream. We got there
and 1 was taken to my brothers house: tie
felt terrible bad when [ was brought home.


81 hadn't any idea that he thought so much
of me as he did.


81 could hear him cry and talk, and hadn't
the power to move muscle. was put in
coffin, and it finally came out that was to
be buried.


"My old mother lived there, you know.
Oh boys, I hope none Of you will ever be
made to feel the horrors that felt when |
knew I was boxed up in coffin and would
soon be buried.


"seven years have gone by since then, but
I never think Of it without shudder. felt
them putting on the lid of the coffin, and then
I knew I was fastened up.


"From that time until the cover of the cof-
fin was raised again I haven't any recollection
of what happened, only that was continual
ly in motion. Though I could not open my
eyes, sorter felt that it was dark and was
going somewhere.


"All of sudden mother spoke.


George" said she to my brother, "his fore
head don't feel very cold. How strange it is"


"Then Georges hand was put on my fore
head, and I could then feel him place his
hand on my breast.


"They seemed to think that I might not be
dead.


"Pretty soon neighbor came in, and there
was good deal of talking that couldn't un-
derstand.


"Then I was rubbed all over with coarse
towel. Still I couldn't stir or open my eyes.


"Then my mother came to give one last
look. I felt her near me just as she used to
be when was boy, and her hands smoothed
my hair in the old way, that seemed to take
me back to the time when I wasn't so bad as
I am now.


81 tried with all the force could, but |
felt that some one was turning the screws OF
the cof6n-lid, and after a while the cover was
taken off.


II would rather die thousand times over
than 20 through the horrible suffering of that
affair again.


"There 1 was, dead and going to be buried,
and so near alive that I knew what was going
on.


"Boys, you may talk, but there is nobody
in this world that thinks as much Of you as
your mother. You can imagine my feeling
no, you can't have the least notion of how l
felt, when she was taking on so over me- At
ter while could feel that my mother had
stopped crying; then I thought she might
have tainted.


"I never was much in the praying line, but
if ever any one made strong try to call on
God for assistance, did then.


II could feel my mothers soft hand on my
head. I made one strong effort to rouse my.
self, and finally l broke the spell and looked
up.


"NIy mother tainted but help soon came,
and after taking some medicine and doctors
stuff I was able to think freely and breathe
again.


"In little while I was we'll again, with the
exception of an ugly scar on the back Of my
neck.


"The doctors said had a narrow escape.
My spinal cord, they said, had been struck
by the branch Of the tree, and [ was as good
as dead.


"It was more than miracle that / was
brought to. They had good deal to say
about paralyzing my nervous system and
stopping my circulation, and all that; but, at
any rate, / got we'll.


"Boys! haven't sworn an oath since then.
I don't feel like it."


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