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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1887)
634 THE WEST SHORE. take to haul bo far, when the way was bo He threw his axe over to the other rough. As it fell at his feet, and its side, dragged the hemlock to his cross, glossy, dark boughs lay quivering like ing place, and lifting it with a Hercule. gome living thing, it looked bo very beau- an effort, stood it almost straight up. It tiful, that lleinrich felt he might carry was not quite close enough. By a great it a hundred miles. How it stretched pull, which sent the blood tingling to all out as it lay there 1 Heinrich loved his parts of his frame, and puffed out his home dearly, and as thoughts of how cheeks till he looked like a stuffed Dutch happy they would all be there when he man, he managed to get it nearer with came tramping up to the door with his out danger to himself, and let it drop prize, bringing sweet visions to his moth- cautiously, however, measuring before er of her old home in the fatherland, he hand the distance and direction to let it was inspired with new and fresh vigor, fall. Crash I and it rested securely up. He fastened his aie securely in the on the opposite bank. He tugged at it branches, and merrily trudged his way to be certain it was lodged welL It around the mountain, as he must reach seemed so. Only a step or two now and the other side before he could get home, he would be across. This was finally accomplished, and he What a splendid bridge ! He took a was down nearly to the canyon, and the step, then another, and still another, three miles home he was pretty well ac- What need was there for fear ? Yet, as quainted with. But as he looked across, he looked down into the awful abyss, and ho more than ever before noticed how remembered how frail his structured much more level it was. Several hills he wished he were back and had gone were on this side; on the other it was the longer way. He stepped again. Hor level and more easy to get home, were rors 1 Were the branches on the other hoonco across. Heknewthere was no side giving way ? They had slipped just bridge bu then the canyon was only a little-enough to make color leave poor ten feet wide, and he might lay the tree Heinrich's face, and to make him clutch across and go over on it It looked al- desperately at the tree, as with the clutch one it?) Tit TuP aCr68- At f a Iasfc hPP' SliPPiQg Btill 1 and with tn.1 hecowWiP a plunge, boy and tree went down in the tt 2t b?.re ye6TdfalliDgt0 darkness,awailof distress rending the the Wjelow, a distance of several hun- air of that silent dungeon. A sudden lln .i..i ,. halt they struck something. The tree cfa l L.7,, T from the WM " 4 wedged between the jot &2l I J6,'-'- tfog banks half way down. Heinrich Wed LT kad8Wim9he and "mon8 the soft boughs, (rem- he said to M J, . IMrhap8' He WM 6afe from 6oiDS farth now-48 wJSf, 18 beCaU8e 1 th held fastfand he was too own K5X EOl,80.Tery deep mmh eihted at became of for m me " 8Tlipn,Wllich Um- MinDte9 tours. The 5 JStoB by thi9 lieht alwe Md dn8k " It will ran .n i ,. coming on, and Heinrich began, littleby Heinrich .load 7t Wal1" 6aid ""l to collect himself. Was itproba- jutap across. Fad I it , "n ?,8t tle tha' te should be compelled to stay "Jge I It is all right I" all night in such a lonely place ? Must