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his desperate situation. he looked about near him Soon over the wreckage of snow, rocks, in the slender and broken treetops,
faced
but
covering,
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WILLIAM
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his from the snow, gun out Pulling himself over he dragged painfully the the debris and along slope until an of he reached overhanging shelter Here he resolved to hold the ledge. out while he might. were and There scrub-pines the base of thickets of aspen along He had still his pocketthe ledge. a a box of matches, lunch of dirk, and boiled meat. He hard biscuit a bare sheltered of scraped spot then worked, painfully ground, and cutting off pine boughs breaking himself a bed arid kind of to fashion
camp passed miserably, then shot. and a single
heard
heavy
tain
slopes
wind
was
slides" above. "
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on
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and famishing, he sat for a Gaunt at the of time that opening long day the rock, his back against his shelter, time for the thousandth wondering could be en how long such misery dured. All hope of rescue had fled. Sometimes the woe of his situation would possess his mind as if not he, were starv other hurt-man, but some there in loneliness the upon ing and out of a boundless mountain, tears would sympathy for that one, in rivulets his face stream down Then to the real situation,, rousing he would brush away the salt drops in manful shame. den His of brush and rock had come to have a worn, inhabited look, In all this like the lair of a wild beast. not terrible time he had seen a nor had he heard creature, living the rush of slides, the aught save roar of floods, and the occasional howl of wolves upon the mountain below. At midday, on the tenth day after the sun his beat warmly accident, that of the in side mountain, upon the was the air of early languor and the occasional of chirp spring, mountain birds began to be heard. the full Bisbee To sunlight get his dragged himself pulling gun of habit out a few along from force the from and lay on a rocks, paces his back. dry hummock upon
of
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only.
stayed
fell
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sound
of
awakened by B'hhr-r-'hrah :
hours,
sensibly
strength,
until
from which he a loud guttural The wild !
ut familiar strangely two three was or repeated followed times, then by a noise of a creature himself." rubbing his eyes to the rocks Bisbee raised Within feet of him and above. fifty a almost buck overhead, bighorn stood a narrow shelf of rock upon his shoulder industriously scratching
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grown almost Bisbee had now quite lost daytime. hope of rescue by Shoshone Joe. On the fifth day the water began weather
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TYRES.
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body
die.
—
—
and
Durability,
Comfort,
.
wickiup. he had in succeeded .By nightfall of against the rocks a shelter rearing and had a brush, heap of gathered Here wood for a fire. he thought he could " hold on," with what food he had, for a few days, unless the weather should turn cold. bitterly During the latter part of the night he slept often fitfully, awakening of his from the chill damp bed, and on fresh sticks the fire. But putting for the under heavy flannel clothing his suit he of canvas could not have Even at all. a chinook wind slept warm the night cannot air of a snowmountain. covered In the morning his hip was swollen and the About pain great. greatly, the middle of the forenoon the gnaw him to eat half ing of hunger drove a biscuit the and a morsel of meat mouthfuls he had first permitted he left himself since The day camp. and pain, in weariness and dragged in he barely succeeded gathering wood enough for the night. was The next day his condition worse. He again confined still his and a food rations to a half biscuit He fired his gun mouthful of meat. or of three four hours. at intervals fourth The day since his leaving
For
rocks,
the pangs of hunger. with which to quench his Snow thirst still lay under the edges of the is snow not food. He but rocks, the ends of the bracts chewed inner or of and seed-scales cones, pine some him nourish they gave perhaps
!
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and
Retail
ST.,
KALGOORLIE.
Fruiterers, |
or
his
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ledge of rods
forty
cover, rock,
.
-
a
better
awoke left
days
.
for
to
of food, after This and the of fasting. renewed his strength temporarily, more now he suffered frightfully his
ADELAIDE.
seen.
Peering fell upon the slope,
his
if
several of buffalo and now
He
had AND
the
of
1
at
SYDNEY,
MELBOURNE,
be
:
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he heard the nights wolves the among the brutes he wished pines, and make a speedily might come But none came. The finish of him. was and uncommonly warm, night of exhausted he lay in a stupor sleep the next forenoon. until far into
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must be seen and lay down found,
were
Depot
in
it
On howl
"
hope of finding
.
book
where
would
a wait in camp couple of probably to ranch return the and days, then in his laconic, matterdead report the Thus hunter of-fact fashion. "
.
Me
where
of
PARTAKE
and
as ninth he day, as near reckon afterwards, he, being ana weakened, emaciated woefully a naturalist's note took starving, from a pocket of his book and pencil his last will and inner coat, scrawled the fly leaves, tucked testament upon
the
On could
MERCHANTS,
& COCOA
COFFEE
in
run
with
GRIFFITHS BROS.,
when Bisbee Joe, that to camp night,
Perhaps not
W.
and Bisbee, burn torrents, fever induced ing by his injury, the almost to listened deliriously a below. of floods in canyon uproar he kept his senses, and ate his Still morsels of food. to
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WEATHER.
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