Christmas Dinner by Toboggan Express By ALVAH MILTON KERR (Copyright, iyu». by W. U. Ch&piu&n.) Donald Saunders had his first great adventure up in the Long's Peak country, a region famous throughout Colorado for heavy snows and ava lanches. Donald came over from Den ver, after graduating from high school, to spend the summer with Sumpter Saunders, his father's youngest broth er. Sumpter was a very young uncle, indeed, being but 27 and not very long out of college, while Donald was 19. "Uncle Sump" was a big-boned, strapping fellow who had played cen ter in his college football team, a man with laughing blue eyes and "teas ing" ways but entertaining serious dreams of owning a great mine, if strength and pluck and persistence would bring one to light. He was run ning a tunnel on what he believed to be an excellent gold-bearing prospect, up in the Long's Peak country. Don ald went out to help him. The tall boy had notions of becoming a min ing engineer, and here was experience that migiit prove of value when he should be ready to enter a technical Bchool. The world is very much in confusion up In that country, the earth having been flung about at all sorts of angles, heaped and ragged and tumbled. Streams sprawl in foamy * K&t Donald's Gray Eyes Dilated with Sud den Fear and Horror. abandon through the canyons and the clumps of pines on the soaring steeps sing cheerily in the wind and sun. Donald found it all quite magical. He had purposed returning home to Denver in the autumn, but Sumpter having offered him an interest in the mine, should they succeed in striking quartz, he concluded to remain at least until Christmas. Donald's fa ther, knowing the value of practical experience, thought it quite as well that his son should stay and rough it for awhile. There were deer and bear and mountain grouse in that lifted, broken region, but the two young fellows had little time for hunting them, being intent on driving the tunnel as rap idly and with as little delay and ex pense as possible. Sumpter had built a cabin close against the base of a perpendicular wall of rock at the side of the canyon in his_clajjp lay. In this caliin they lived very snugly, going down to Ward occasionally to bring up supplies. Donald had come up to that country over a little rail road that runs from Boulder to Wa#d, a bit. of track upon which the snow rotary plows are busy most of the winter. Towards Christmas the young min ers began to grow a bit lonesome and restless; they especially grew weary of ham and tinned meats and longed for venison, bear, beef, or almost any sort of flesh food that was fresh. Snow was heavy on the mountains and they could get about but little save upon snowshoes. Donald wished very ardently that he might go home for Christmas but made up his mind that to leave Sumpter in that white, lonely world would be selfish and cowardly, so he remained. Christmas morning Donald put on his snowshoes and, Hinging Sumpter's rifle across hi» shoulder, he declared he was going to look for fresh meat. His uncle laughed' at him but the hardy Scotch youth was resolute. "An old hunter," he said, "told me at the hotel down in Ward, the last time I was dowa, that a lot of deer wintered in the big thickets just baitk of us here; he said they were hard to get at but he'd found them there twice. I'm going up to see." Sumptor assented reluctantly, caution ing his nephew not togo too far away. The day was soft and mild, the white world all egleam with sunshine. Donald put on a pair of smoked glasses and started up the canyon. A half mile away he found a little "draw," up the slope of which he climbed until he came out upon the gleaming side of the mountain; thence he made hie way slowly west ward, passing around upheaving masses of dark stone, across slopes that were smooth as white satin, and, still further up the mountain side, found little hollows, evidently lined with brush but now filled with Bnow, simply big, glistening dimples in the mountain's fat face; but he saw no deer. Finally, being weary of laboring through what was very much like an infinite bed of glittering down, he reached a point on the steep slope apparently a quarter of a mile or so directly north of the cabin. As he stood there debating If he should return to the "draw" or attempt to find a more direct route to the floor of the gulch, he suddenly felt himself moving. His first thought was that an earthquake was swaying the mountain or that he himself had been seiied with vertigo. Then with a wild thrill he perceived that a strip of snow 200 feet wide and perhaps 800 feet in length was moving down the mountain side! Donald's gray eyes dilated with sud den fear and horror. He was thrown headlong in the snow, hearing as he fell the crunch of stones that were being ripped out of their beds and the crash and rending of stumps and roots as they parted from their sock ets in the earth. With every pulse leaping in alarm he got to his feet, toppling and reeling and shouting for aid as he glanced about him. The next Instant he was again thrown headlong. He was upon the back of a steed beside which the fabled Horse of Death was as an insect. Something went through his brain like a sheet of flame, in it a picture of Sumpter sitting by the open fire of pine loga down in the cabin, a book in his hand, undreaming of this ruthless monster rushing down to crush him. The next moment Donald was again upon his feet, pitching and clutching at the air and shouting. In that mo ment he saw a very amazing thing, though everything was both amazing and not amazing as in some sort of in describable dream. A hundred feet to the rear of him, almost at the up per tip of the avalanche, he saw a bear rolling and tossing on the hurl ing mass. Thrown out of its hibernat ing bed among the rocks or decaying tree-roots, the animal was pitching about, now upon its fefet then upon its back, helpless as a fly upon an ocean surge. Donald never knew why, but he shouted at the bear, and he never could recall afterwards exactly what it was he shouted. He says now that he thinks he commanded the bear not to roll down upon him, which was certainly absurd. In his mind were many glancing thoughts. In such moments the men tality of man sometimes seems as a diamond with many facets. He thought of the Christmas tree to be lighted in the parlor at home in Den ver, of how tired he was of corned beef, of where they would bury him when they took him crushed and dead from the snow at the bottom of the gulch, whether or not his school fel lows if they now saw him would shout "Slide, Donald, slide!" as they used to when he was running the bases when playing ball, and many other things, all, seemingly, in a single moment. It must have been a very short period in which he was leaping and tumbling and whirling about on the mighty toboggan, for the avalanche ran down the mountain side like a swiftly hurrying snake, save that Its undulations were up and down instead of sidewise as with a serpent. It seemed to Donald he had scarcely drawn six breaths before the snow slide shot from the precipice above the cabin. Swift as was his flight he was conscious that the slide had leaped from the canyon wall, for throughout a few seconds there was no noise and he seemed being borne upon a bed of feathers through space, then there was a roar as of muffled thunder and he was wallowing deep in snow The mental picture that had flashed through Donald's mind of his young uncle sitting by the fire engrossed in a printed romance, had been true to tbe fact. Sumpter had awakened to the coming of the avalanche only when It peared the brink of the wall, 70 feet above the cabin. His book dropped from his hand and he made a leap for the door. The next moment a bear crashed through the roof and smote the floor in front of the fire, leaving the luckless animal lifeless. Sumpter's face blanched as he stared »t the strange object, then he thought of Donald and hurriedly pushed his way out of the door. The snow about the cabin was up to his neck and the roof was piled deep with It, but the bulk of the slide had leaped clear over the little house, heaping the bottom of the gulch to the opposite wall, some 600 feet away. The bear had dropped from the tail of this rushing mass di rectly upon the cabin. When Sumpter had got his fright ened nephew out of the smother of stuff in which he was floundering, the two young fellows stood with pale faces staring at each other for a little space, then both, seeing what they had escaped, laughed joyously. "Come into the cabin," said Sump ter, "we will have broiled bear stoak for Christmas dinner! Too many snowslides around here now; to-mor row we will pull out for Denver. In the spring we will come back and tunnel until we strike the vein." Ail of which came true. Bad. "Did you enjoy the play last night?" "No. It was awful. I could write a better one myself." "H-m. Then it must be Dad." —De- troit Free I'fess. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER *4, 1908. YOUTHFUL MONITOR AT WORK.! Little Sister's Error Corrected by Six- Year-Old Authority. Six-year-old Marjorie and four-year old Josephine were making their first transcontinental trip frofai New York to San Krancisco —and, of course, en countered new marvels at almost every turn of the trip. But the cre scendo of their ecstatic outpourings was reached when they saw their first Indian families —braves, squaws and papooses. "Oh-h-h!" sighed Josephine, gazing wild-eyed at the moccaslned, gaudily blanketed squaws, "ain't those ■quashes just splendid, though!" Marjorie's equally deep admiration was momentarily quenched In her feel ing of responsibility as elder-sister monitor, and she eyed Josephine «e --verely as she admonished: "They ain't squashes, Josephine; they're squabs." INVALID'S SAD PLIGHT. After Inflammatory Rheumatism, Hair Came Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed Sores Developed—Only Cuti cura Proved Successful. 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