The Exeter Times, 1887-12-8, Page 6GOOD AS GOLD, E9g'Zillikgiri Chihaga,
To kill and prepare 1,200 to 1,500 beeves
hen my on Gregory married MiCs Mor. ad 8,000 to 10,000 hogs in one day requires
risen, I gave him a piece ot my mind, and S, Pomplete eystero, The eteere are Maven
told him t are I never Paw hun into long pens, And an expert idler -min wallt.
again. Why ? Oh, well, I didn't like her ; ing upen a platform over them dischargee
she wasn't the sort of a girl I'd have chosen, a rifle ehob into the brain just behind the
I heti never eeeti her, but I knew she wase't horns The killiug is instantaneeus the
A flighty young thing, just front boarding steer, without even a groan felling like a
school, couldn't make a shift, or belte load log. The animal io then damn forward
ef bead; but there Wae Min Fih,S, plain from the pen, the hide quickly removed, aua
glint, to be sure, bet so good, a splendid the cares prepared and cut up ready for
' houriekeeper, and all that I aliveys liked atorages in the chillroome, " and subs( quent
Ahnira Ftsh; and Gregory to go merry Fan. Shiphiellt. Then beetkilling processes are
zy Morrism Well, as I said, I told him epeedily performed, but the science most
what I thought of him and her, and the boy throughly developed is the hog -killing.
ehowed his temper, and for mar months 1 Teens ammale are driven up an inclined
never raw him. roadway into a pen iu the upper part a the
1 bore it as long as I could, but a mother packing house. Men keep the proeession
must be a fool about her only boy ; so oue constantly moving, and when the hog ar-
day, as he wouldn't come to me I went up rives at the proper place, a chain is deftly
to the offiee and walked up to the desk, and Mstened round his hind leg. The steam
I wee going to scold hirn, but something machinery jerks up the squealing hog, Be-
come over me that made me choke to keep that he hangs heed. downwards upon a slid'
the tears back, and before I knew it we had ing frame; his theeet is out, the blool apout-
kissed and made friends. ing CP reaSS gnaw:: elog the frame, and, in
" Aucl now you'll go and see Fanny," said e moment, being drained of blood, it is
be; "and Ull find you there when I come dropped into a at of boiling water. This
faunae at night ;" and after a little coaxing I sealds it, and being quiekly lifted. out it
said I would go—arid more than that, I rolls over a table into a revolving machine
went. that scrapes it clean cf bristles. Then the
The house was a cunning little place a erne:ass is passed along a sliding table, wash -
mile or two out of towu, and I must say, it ed again, hung up, beheaded, disembowelled,
was very neat outside. split down the middle, and then upon a
rung the bell; it shone as it ought to, lengthened inclined railway to be hung up
betore it stopped. tinkling some one to cool. An army of men standing along -
opened the door. It was a pretty young side the machinery perform the various du -
woman in a blue chintz wrapper, and when ties as the carcasses transport then by gray -
1 asked her if Mrs. Gregory Vray was at itY through the different processes, whioh
home, she answered : succeed each other with such rapidity that
"Yes, that is my name. I've been ex- in a few minutes the porker is finally as-
-emoting you an age, but better late than posed of. This is done by movine the oar -
never," cass to a broad block, where half a dozen
41 How did you know I was coming ?" I butchers standing around simultaneously
asked, puzzled ,o know how he knew me, attack it, and in a twinklieg it is converted.
for we had never met before. into hams, sides, and shoulders, and the
"Oh, I didn't know," said she. "Indeed, various parts are sent off to ....heir respective
I had made up my mind you wouldn't; but apartments. Every portion of the hog is
itis a long way out here, I know, Come 'utilized for meats, lard, sausages, or canned
right up stairs. Miss Jones was here yes- goods, aud the blood and other offal are
terclay to cut and baste, but we will find as converted into a fertilizer. Enormous saus-
much as we can do to do the trimming be- age -making machines grind and cut the
tweet% us." scraps, and scores of women are busily en.
" Cool," I thought Then I said, "I sup- gaged in -packing and labelling- the tins.
Tose you are having a dress made ?" These wonderful processes attract many
"4. suit," said she; "skirt, overskirt, visitors, and the American rustic who has
be:3mm and dolman. 1 do hope you make been accustomed to the farmer's frolic of
nice button holes." the " hogkilliog," where elaborate prepara-
tions are made for the daughter of probab-
ly half a dozen, looks -with amazement
upon this wholesale summary disposal of
the animals in Chicago. Great as tide won-
derful city is in everything, it seems that
the first place among its strong points must
bo given to the celerity and comprehensive-
ness of the Chicairo style of killing hogs.
-" I should hope 1 do," said 1. "
would be ashamed of myself if I couldn't."
" So many can't" said she; " but I told
lass Jones to send me an experienced hand,
and she said there was no better than Mrs.
Switzer."
Now, I began to understand. My
daughter-in-law took me for a seamstress
she expected, and if ever a woman had a
chance, I had one now. Not a word did I
say, only I wondered if seamstresses gen- &aerie Edueatien.-
erally came to work in grosgrain silk and The trustees of a certain school recently
a cashmere shawl; and I sat down in the commissioned one of their number to convey
rocking -chair she gave me and went to to the teachers the wishes of the board as
work with a will. I can sew with anyone, to the nature of the studies to be pursued.
and as for button-holes—but this is not my When the teachers were assembled before
Amy.
him, the spokesman of the trustees made
She was a pretty girl, that daughter -in- the following address:
law of mine, and very chatty and sociable. " Teachers ; I've been disputed by my
I talked of this and I talked of that, but fellow-cowleeks of the Board to make a
not a word did she say of ber mother -in- short collation to you on the subject of run -
law. I spoke of people I bad known who ning this school practical. We don't want
had quarrelled with their relations, but you to learn the scholars no fancy things.
she did not tell me that •her husband's They learned me lots of nonsense where I
mother had quarrelled with him. 'went to school and I never made the first
At last I spoke right out scout mothers.. dollar out of it. Now there's arithmetic, we
in-law. I said: I want you to play light with that. You
"4.5 a rule, mothers -in -lam and (laugh- ca,n learn the children to do sums in Nati-
, ters-in-law don't agree." tion,Distraction, Stultification, and Long
She. said,." That's a very wrong state of andShort Provisions, but that's all. Don't
things." „ you teach. them Fractures. I lost six months'
"Well," said I, "1 suppose it is; but when 1 went to school learning Fractures,
how do you account for it ?" and last week I spent two days trying to
"1 supposeyoung people are selfish when measure off an acre of pasture, and I'd have i
they are first n love," said she, "and for. been at it yet if I'd stuck to them Fractures.
get old people's feelings." 1 had to go over the ground with a two foot
It was an answer I ad not expect. rule after all. Fractures is too puzzling.
"It is plain you are friendly with your You are always converting the Divider the
mother-in-law
,
" said I. }wrong way, or getting the Fumigator and
"1 am sureI should be if I had ever seen the Nomination mixed up on the wrong sid
I
her." of the line.
4' Oh, then I have been misinformed," "Then there's English Grabber; that's
eaid 1. " then,
told that Mr. Gregory another book we don't want you to use
Bray was the son a Mrs. Bray who lives on much. I learned all about it when I was 'a
-- street." !boy and what do I know now ? I couldn't
-"That is perfectly true, but still we Parsley ten words if I had to die. Of course
have never met." all these boys may be the Premier of the
" HOW singular I" said I. "I've heard Dominion and then they'll want to know
she was a very queer old lady." a little about it, for there's no.use in a man
You haven't beard the tenth, then." running for office unless he's good'at Grab -
said my daughter-in-law. "My husband's ber ; so you may just learn the children
mother is a very fine woman m every re. -what they call the smarts of speech—the
spent. But when methusband told her sud. Article, the Clown, the Axletive, the Herb,
daily that he was going to marry a girl she the Parsnip, the Injunction, and the rest or
never saw, she was naturally startled, and them.
said some things about me' knowing I was "As for Geography, we don't want any
fresh from boarding-schooland no house. of that in the school, unless you get the new,
keepergthat offended Gregory, and so there and improved one. The Geography that b
has been an enstrangement I think my me and my ccwleeks of the board learned at '
dear husband is a little to blame, and I have school was filled with a pack of lies and
'urged him a dozen times to go and see her. nonsense; it said the earth was all covered a
He is very fond of her and thinks no one over with criss-cross lines that they called
like her in many things; but his temper the lines of Gratitude and the cathartic t
is up, and it will take time to cool it; circular, and the Ile -Quaker that ran all
meanwhile, I feel quite sure if she knew me round the earth after the Great Sarah. Now,
AGBDIES or NIAGARA..
The 1es4rucliou of Charles Addington Ani
F,va De rerest IH. Me and an Um'
known 3ten in Oda.
"1 am going to Niegare Falls." said a
ix:Mae-aged passenger on a railroad train
tlae other day, " and if you reed in the pa,
pars in e day or so diet Knee person, knewn
or unknown, has been carried over the Falls,
dyeosutin7i011.Noitwo'
.1)e sure; that lhrbinoti
ee reEr—hendnlYf
I can help it. But I have never beee to
Niagara yet that• some one did not go over
the bine, either intentionally or accidentally,
and nothing but a positive and important
business engagement, such as compete me
to go there now, could backer me to visit
the spot which is associated in my mind
with three terrible tragedies. I was iz horri-
fied spectator of two moat heart-rending
Niagara tragedies. I have been for six
weeks trying to avoid this trip, for my re-
cellectionsof Niagara, are sufficiently ea:pietas-
ant without having another one to be a
perpetual sbudder to no,
"My lint visit to Niagara was in the
summer of 1858, and I had been there not
more than an hour when I
Wrenessea THE AGONIZING SCENE
of a younpe man and a beautiful fair-haire
irl sweptaway by the swift ourrent fan
leoat Ialand and (lathed over the Falls, Th
young man was Charles Addington, and th
chiM was little Eve De Forrest. The Ad
dingtons and De Forresta were prorninen
Buffalo families. Young Charles Addin
ton was engaged to be married to Ada D
Forrest, The day that I paid my firs
visit to Niagara Mee. De Forreet, Ada
and her little sister Eva, and young Ad
dington had cora° from Buffalo far a day
outing at the Falls. They picnicked o
Goat Island, and little Eva having straye
away from the group, her mother sent youn
Addington to find her and fetch her batik
He discovered her not far away, standie
on the shore, looking at the swift water
Thoughtlessly stealing up behind her, h
grasped tho child under the arms, and. lif
Wig her up, held her out over the water
She threw up her arms and slipped fro
his hands into the river. Addington sprees
in end caught her before she had been car
ried into the swift water. He succeeded
after a desperate struggle, in getting bac
near enough to the shore to throw the chil
up on the bank. She had not sufficien
strengtla to hold midi her mother ooul
grasp her and pull her to a safe place, an
fell back into the current. Addingto
again seized her, but Ise was too much ex
hausted to make way againstthe swift water
and the two were carried into the rapids
and disappeared together over the falls. I
was on Goat Island and saw the whole oc-
currence.
" In the summer of 1864 I again visite
Niagara Falls. I arrived there at night,
and early next morning I walked over to
Goat Island, andflooking down the American
Rapids, what should I see but a man climb-
ing to an old oak trunk that had lodged atrn
soe time in the current between the small
Islands off Goat Island and this American
PALE MCCAW/ AND WIIM—
looking front his hours cif suapense. Sta.
derly he kneeled on, the raft, over which
the water was svreeping and remain-
ed there for is momeet, ae if in prayer. Thee
he sprang into the raging current and pulled
bravely tor the island, within was only a few
feet away. At first he gained visibly against
tha current, aud the thought that he would
surely save himself found utterance in
another joyful shout from the spectators.
13ut when he was elmost within reach of the
shore his strength begau to Tho space
between Min and the 'eland grecluelly
wideti-
ed, Then every one knew that all h me
was gone. He :meet: a few more desperate
strokes, but the wild waters seized him, and,
pitching and tossing and whirling him hum
ried hint to the brink of the great cataract,
When he reached the edge of the Falls he
was thrown upward from the wa.ter until
his whole length came into view, standing
upright, and he disappeared. as if be had
made a voluntary leap over the precipioe.
While he was being dashed to and over the
Falls not a sound was uttered by one in the
vast crowd of horromstrieken spectators,
and, terrible as was the scepe, not an eye
un
was turned away fromehas he was earn-
ed along to hie destruction, The moment
• he disappeared in the face of the eater:let
d mse heartrending shriek went up from the
a crowd, and the awful fascination of the
e scene being broken, the spectators fled from
e it ea if frotn some frightful pursuer. The
- poor victim's body was never found me: hia
identity ever established. As ou my previ-
ous visit to the Falls, the place had no long-
er any attraotion for me, and the first train
t carried me away.
vOr
The Right of Public Meeting.
• The right of public meeting in a quiet,
u orderly way is one about the possession and
g exercise of whioh the British people are
• especially jealous. At the same time, like
g every other right, it has its limits, but
• these limits ought to be very thoroughly de -
,t fined and understood before it is interfered
t' with. It is not at all sufficient to say that
• if each or such a meeting is held the public
m peace may be broken, for this would Put
g every public Assembly at the mercy of a few
roughs or a little knot of opponents. These
,/ would simply have to resolve to break the
g peace or to threaten to do so to have the
whole thing suppreesed. The one question
is—Is this a lawful assembly called together
for a lawful purpose to discuss matters of
general or local witerest ? And if this is
settled in the affirmative then the author-
ities are bound to see to it with all the force
they MU command that the meeting be held
and that those who call it shall be protected
in the enjoyment of their just rights from
all violence or riot. Expressions of dissent
or approval are, of course, to be expected,
a
for why should the public be appealed to if
its opinion, -whether against as well as in
favor, is not to be received or tolerated? ff
the friends of a certain cause are only invited
then one may grant that protection either
from interruption or dissent may be justly
claimed, but the meeting there ceases to be a
public one and its decision has to be judged
e of accordingly. It will come then to be a
question. What was the condition of things
in London which led to the suppression of
the public meetings in Trafalgar Square?
And was that condition such as to justify
that suppression? Evidently the conduct
of the crowds on. previous occasions had not
been decent. Especially has this to be said
of what was done in Atestminster Abbey.
Then, of course, the risk is great in such a
city from the gathering in huge masses and
under false pretences of the worst elements
of the population. In these times, also,
and with the warning of Chicago experi-
• ences before them, those who were respon-
sible tor the peace of the city might be
e justified in taking very firm measures. The
g right of public meeting is all very well,
but it is possible sometimes to hide under
that specious guise very dangerous projects.
In the mum referred to, however, there was
apearently no object avowed but that of
vindicating the right to meet, and Govern-
ments cannot be too chary bout even seem-
ing to infringe upon popular rights except
for reasons which will commend themselves
to every man of sense and right feeling. At
this distance, however, it is difficult to
judge, and Sir Charles Warren's antecedents
have not been such as to make him be sus-
pected of having any sympathy with despot-
ism, or any wish to circumscribe the true
becoming liberty of popular free speech and
of public popular discussion.
shore. Before I could give the alarm th
man had been discovered by others and,
THE NEWS SPREAD DAPIDLY.
Who the man was or how he oazne to b
in his perilous situation no ono ever knew,
but it was supposed that he had been rowing
across the river somewhere above, the night
before, and, losing control of his boat, had
been swept down into the rapids and the
boat striking the tree trunk, he ad by some
miracle gained a foothold upon
As soon as possible after the discovery of
the man was made word was telegraphed
to Buffalo, aud a party of life savers came
on a special train to the Falls to try an
rescue hitn. Before 10 o'clock thousands o
persons were gathered at every &vanish'
spot where a sight of the unfortunate ma
could be obtained. The railroads ran sped
al trains, and people came in conveyances
of all kinds frona the surrounding country
No one seemed at first to know how to go
to work to be of aid to the man, but he
clung to the tree, watching every move
that was made --how anxiously he watched
may be imagined. It was of courseimpossible
to make hit» hear anything that might be
shouted to hirn, and there was no way to
give him any directions. Finally a. lifeboat
was attached to a cable and let down the
rapids from the bridge towards him. Guide
ropes were tied toit, by which it was direct-
ed toward the log by men on the shore ot
the island. The plan was well calculated,
and the boat made directly for the spot
where the man was hanging between life
and death. The assembled multitude began
to feel that in a few minutes the poor man
would be safely drawn ashore. Suddenly the
oat was caught by a swirl of the rapids.
The cable parted like a weak kite string.
The boat rushed past the man like a flash
nd was carried over the Falls.
"This sad ending to that effort to rescue
he man showed the life savers that there
was no hope for the man in that plan.
Several others were suggested, and finally
one was adopted which it took until late in
the afternoon to get in readiness. • In all
those long hours of suspense I don't believe
one of the spectators moved from his tracks.
Everything else about Niagara Falls was
forgotten except the terrible scene Of a fel-
else would like me better. Perhaps this is
a piece of vanity, but I should try to make
her, you know, and I won't fall into absurd
superstitions that a woman must hate her
mother-in-law. I can't remember my own
mother, and Gregory's certainly would seem
to come next to her. Now you have the
story, Mrs. Switzer."
" I am sure it ctoes you credit, and the
old lady ought to be ashamed of herself."
I wanted to get up and kiss my daughter.
in-law then and there'but that would have
• spoiled my fun, so after that 1 ewed hard
and didn't say much, and tooether we
finished the pretty silk dress, and had inst
finished it when a key in the door caught
both our ears.
"That is my husband," said my daugh-
ter-in-law ; and I knew it was Gregory. Up
stairs he came, two steps at a time, opened
the door and looked at us with a bright
smile on his face.
" This is as it should be," said he,
Fanny, I shall kiss mother first, this
time."
And he put his arms around us both, but
Fanny gave a little scream.
" Oh 1 Gregory, what are you about?
This is Mrs. Switzer, who is making my
dress. At least, I have thought so all day."
For you see I had burst out laughing, and
had kissed Gregory back, and then kissed
her.
" My dear, said I, "I've played a little
trick on you, or rather, let you play one
oh yourself, but you've turned out as good
as g Id. I could not got you to say a word
against the old lady. T sin Gregory's
mother, My dear, and your's too, if se
call me so."
"Indeed 1 will," said the dear girl • "but
I heve kept you sewing hard all' day.
You see I etpected a Mrs. Svvitz.r, and
'-f-We've been all the more sociable for
dear," I said; "and Pm glad it
tei I've been very foolish all the
•',Grego±y into chosen a better
than t could have done,"
+o -clay, for I believe there
woman than Gregory's
that's worse than dime novels, and don't
you reacts any of it here.
"Then I see in the next district they
raised $20 off the taxpayers to increase the
Felicities of their school, so they said. Now
we don't want you to use any Felicities in
this school; If you've got to use anything of
that kind take a rattan, but I tell you pub.
lie opinion is against corporation punishment
in any shape, and though the taxpayers may
stand a rattan they'll kick if any of their ,0
boys is whaled with a Felicity. The only u
kind of punishment tbat is allowed in these 8
times is moral swearin', it hurts ths boy just a
• as much as rattans and it don't leave no
marks on them.
ow being hanging
ON THE VERGE OF DEATH,
nd patiently waiting the success or failure
f the efforts that were being made to rescue
km The plan adopted was to fasten a
trong cable securely to the American shore,
ttach a stanch raft to it, carry the loose
ad of the cable over to the island, awl let
t belly down with the raft to the tree trunk.
" These are all the rules and regulations 13
p
our next meeting we'll get up some More." °
, During October the Pablic debt of the
• Dominion was decreased more than a quar-
ter of a. million -
I It is customary in Sweden to hang the
'
door -key up outside the house to show that
the 'family is not at home.
we have drawed u for thep
y this tneane it was hoped that the raft,
fter reaching the log, and the man had
rawled upon it, could be steadily drawn to
small island between the man and Goat
stand, frorn which snuell island his matte
Would be easy. Some food and a glass of
brandy were floated on the raft, with a
rope and written instructions to the man as
to what was to beeclone and vehet be must
do. The raft moved down and readied the
tree trunk in safety. As the man dropped
rein his perilous perch upon the raft, lash-
ed himself to it with the rope according to
ustructione, and then ea,geirly seized. the
randy and food, such a shout as went no
resent but at a
While the relations between France and
England have of late not been se friendly as
could be desired, it is a pleasure to every , b
rom the thousands of people who had
etched the proceedings with beating hearts
nd bated breed' was never 'heard before,
t could be heard above the engry mat of
friend of peace and geed fellowship to know f
, that two bones of contention have been w
taken out of the way. The two powers have a
come to an amicable understanding in re- I
ference to the Suez Canal and to the New ,
Hebrides. Of course the cry is that France w
him got the best in both cases. It does not w
appear that she has, but even though this f
were the case, it would. in every way be bet- m
ter, cheaper, more honorable and in every. o
way more in accordance with reason than if , T
they had gone to war over either or both. w
The canal is to be open and perfectly nc-utral f
in time a war. This is all very woll, though g
Niagara, The raft was slowly pulled to-
ard the small islahd. Everything seemed
(irking to a charm, The tension on the
eelbags of the armee:a:we wee co great that
any fainted away. People were sobbing
n every side. Suddenly the raft stopped.
he cable, draima as it was, beneath the
ater, eaught on some obstruction. All et
orts to loosen it were unavailing. Oise
roam of agony arefic from the greet crowd.
the difdculty will be to make ouch engag- T
ope, but still it clung to the obstruction.'
/mitts respected in time of war. It is a r
great thieg at any rate for tilts great nations
of the eatth to get aectistomedtb such kind r
I of talk and settlement The Hebrides are h
to be absolutely neutral though both natione i
mil send to them ships of war to protect h
I thew individual interests.
he life-savers toiled and tugged at the
A Good Word for the Red -Headed
I notice from recent paragraphs and
articles that .are going the rounds of the
press that there are some people who think
a red heed, when the owner is a female,
needs an apology. Never was such a mis-
take made. The red-headed girl is the
cutest and most clever of her sex; she is
pretty, too. Her akin is always fair and
her eyes blue or blue -gray, and she needs no
one to take her part; she can do it herself. p
have had experience more than most men,
and I can say truthfully that for the other
half of a courting match nothing can sur-
pass a red-headed girl, except a red-headed
widow whose matrimonial experience has
not been too prolonged,
DEVO UREA BY WOLVES.
ThriNlYnoloAgilla''N'teettic°rfelalte'17:01:401e:lind, 1)1414:et 4t;tt !the
01 the otories told at the cabin fireside of
a winter's night, of the depredations of the
wolves, the following is amongst the sad-
dest and most thrilling
On the removal of the seat of Govern-
ment from Niagara to York, in 1790,
amongst those who fellowecl in its wake
were Corporal Crawford, his wife and two
children. He was a discharged soldier, hav-
ing left the British army a short time be-
fore, on amount of the loss of an eye,
through an Decedent He was a, very fine
looking man, athletic and well proportioned
and standing over six feet in heient.
His 'wife, Mary, whom Crawford had
married six months before, was the widow
of a deceased moldier-, and her two children;
a girl and a boy, four and six years of age
respeotively, were by the first husband. She
Was A tidy, clever, hearty young 13ritishwo-
man of five and twenty. Crawford, who
was about ten years her senior, was a
Scotolunan, He was much given to hunting
and fishing, spent a good deal of his time
in the woods and was a most successful
sportsman. Although he was privileged t
take up 400 acres of laad, and might hay
done so almost anywhere, in the front alon
the lake shore at the time, he was careles
about selecting his location. In campan
with a friendly young Indian, of the Mill
sissagua tribe, for whom he had done som
friendly office, and who was very much et
twilled to him, Crawford Spent days an
Weeks camping in the woods, and trappin
fur bearing animals, whioh were then s
numerous in the unbroken forest.
Ls one of these excursions the soldier wa
taken to a "beaver meadow," on the bor
ders of a little stream flowing into Lak
Slam° (supposed to be somewhere near th
site of the present village of Beaverton
where the game was very abundant. Thee
were many delightful spots on the lake
looking out over the tranquil waters, an
to one of these Crawford was specially at
tracted, and had determined upon making
it his home.
He managed to build a hut, and made a
little clearing, and to this spot with the
help of the friendly Indian, the wife an
children were moved early in the spring
The wife was charmed with the beauty o
the place and its surroundings, and if th
hub was small, it was well provided. Ven
ison was plentiful, and could be had almos
any where in the woods with little trouble
and the most delicious fish might be taken
at pleasure from the stream and lake. Wild
strawberries also grew in great abundance
about the place. The wife was soon able
to manage a ea73,08 and paddled over the
waters of the lake with the delighted chil-
dren.
Summer and fall passed over joyously for
the cantented little family in the woods.
Therewas an early snow fall, and with this
intimation of the corning winter, the wife
wished to be nearer the settlement at York.
She had an addirional reason for this, being
near her confinement The Indians, how-
evenwere very friendly,and the Indian trail
from their village (now Orillia) to lake On-
tario, lcd by the hut. Thoir deparbure was
delayed, the wife was suddenly overtaken
in her confinement. Her illness brought her
to death's door, and her life would be en
danuered by any attempt of removed.
Winter, with all its severity, came on
apace, and this year, much earlier than
usual. The husband exhausted all his in-
genuity and resources in providing for the
wants of his family. Indeed, from the
ample means at command, he had no diffi-
culty in laying in stores of food and procur-
ing firewood. Bread, and flour to make it
with, was the only great deficiency, and the
little stock on hand was supplemented by
large gatherings of nuts. The mother :and
infant grew stronger. But by this time the
snow was so deep that a journey through
the: frost for a woman and young children
was out of the question.
That winter was one of unusual severity.
Towards its close, the howling of the starv-
ing wolves was incessant throughout the
night, and filled the poor woman and child-
ren with terror. Crawford had his gun but
only a scant simply of ammunition. He
was in the habit of making short excursions,
in order to get supplies of fresh venison,
-which he was always able to fetch to the
hut before night to the expectant family.
From one of these—the last of this tragic
story—he did not return as usual. Night
came on, and the uneasiness of the wife
grew to deem at her husband's absence.
She tooted the horn again and again, but
there was no answering response. Solitary
wolves were seen prowling about the hut
when the affrighted woman looked out the
door and tooted in the blinding snowstorm
which had come on. This became unsafe
for her to do any longer, so the door of the
hut was kept shut and barred.
l'ar into the night, the howling of the
aok, at first distant, came nearer and near-
er to the hut The watching woman heard
a rush past, and believing that her husband
was pursued, in her fond eagerness to give
him succor, opened the door.
Fatal step The ferocious brutes rushed
in, tumbling over each other in their bloody
eagerness', The women, with her infant in
her arms, was knocked down, and the sav-
age animals fought and tore each other in
glutting on their defenceless prey. A
child's crib, clumsily rnade of heavy timber,
was overturned in the dreadful onslaught,
and covered up in it was the little gid, the
oldest of the children. She was completely
hidden by the overturned crib, and render-
ed unconscious by fright, lever moved.
Daylight broke in upon this horrible
softie in the woods, when Crawford arrived,
to see the wolves, some of them with bloody
jaws, slinking away from hie wretched
cabin. Ile had followed too far after elm*
which he had wounded, and on his return
home night had fallen, the anew storm had
come on, and pursued by n hungry pack
which had got on the trail of the wounded
deer, he had taken refuge in a tree. This
Wag scarcely a, mile distant from his home.
While in this place of safety, the wolves,
which were howling and jempizeg at the foot
of the tree, suddenly followed the pursuit
of the buck, evhich nulucltily had taken a
course that led towards the hut. Crawford
could tell from the savage howling which
arose above the storm, that something ter-
rible was going on in that directiou. With
the first streak of daylight he made his way
for home where, frantic and heart broken in
hie agony, he encountered the tragic scene
described,
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