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Herbert lOrris
task Lngtom
-ell, that vaz tIA longest sunter aoent L, the mountains. Jefferw.
ecn County it was. ivialdn1t have been so bad if iv didn't have t tunnel
throuch the drifts to the peak to ,:et our bearings. 1 it wee, 004e Juni.
dey, regular ae a cloci., them we woaJ be, La the edge of the wind, die-
ginz may. "i'enny adav that. }lade us laugh, thomflh me were 'ED n serable.
C.old enough to freedse the Taarrow in the bone, yet were burning up,
epecial4 our :aces: jut nly in certain places, It the .;.roper anl
uas a rift mart pale. Mt it wasn't the wind that bothered us much.
Aatter of fact, Vnt's s;at we were after vied.
lo, it waen't the wind. It war, them 2seley wood ticks, curs misery,
they are. I'iret of you i,nd to find tl-ern then, "east out. Nicked riur
a,me 31-xab to hell. honed ti.,en till thtre vas othin left of aur hones.
40re leel to slUr re. Coultimit ehewe then. ,soeT
that vas al:. virjn country. !ertil soil. ins just shot up. :axst
with ,,avwera, And uten our hones clime °It ot o, a fcllew
eouldn't even seratcli. Not to o aIy fV41:, that Tale e -t ao thick.
Yo' l couldn't see the seollinge en -.:ur racer, but you Imew they were there*
s•-burre_ng away 4, just barrtinr and bums ag 4. 4.
_10 tad wart as they ;Ailed fran Plebe, Nebramka,
*Locke, here,' be said. "Mere ovafro., roA bele an old Indian custom.LI
",And what ed4rht that be," said i,
ell," 17:e said, °Oen whieers iiAsc-la get to be rail unmanageable,
t1emauffllk stick their .saces mund a street earner and let the northert
1.1:rn 'en off. 'Course, the indians had an easier time than white Mks.
They just went ta 7isee nrmix ca,:p, caught the edge of a norther and let
it atm, off thcir ICiaAere merely by turntr17 alx,at to kc-oledate the blade,
as it Isere* Now thArre are Afferent back hone, *ore houses than -eoole;
more street corni-re than a wine 'f.norir -eat to do with. IT you want a e-.71.
plate ths, you rot to catc1 e il.rther. at tlic rie.A. angles 411, gents,
heard tell SPONO flon, special the eider ones, ?et plumb wore out chaster
fry- one corner to another t t a ..7,roper einzet:17,•"
that's ITe:,* 1 r,cidi, "It ainq io Nebraska only people ret
their whiskers ?tinged off by the northors, dad nivd to ret a nretty good
Atom In Jhiespo, jut by sttrr on the ehore lf a lake there. Alet's am
lind, b4,111
*Ivan thinkift74" he saLit "sup:-Fooe naw we -lets VAe *lrth And to do
'at little chore rnr u.s."
t•bit got us. Bore we mew, getting feweriaber an fewerisher
every :dilate witl! all that loisg:in from the arodtickE *cause ore had no Imes.
to t•-,,arrwoe our aacee wit anz: oat thrysrt t--45 rInderbrust and tfet at Seas And
if that North And would do that little ;!ob Omr 119., why, er ri-vred, ala had
no cell not to takf a vanta-7e f hitt efer, in a manner fz,..peeking• tbat.te
where tit the r'ar tr 1:1 the MienCO of Ai1.r w. hae been doing would
come in rit !aadyjp I tbouelto C,o we ifeaded 'or t e71en17. of Mount 0.4MpUB.
TM rt.rer believe what Vitt Sorth gind *mad do wtnn he set Unwed! to
rase hell. Once he tore I:, a *AAA emntaileide• 3ut that URA before my
ion :7 before erlei -mansöbies alas settled, l:rv- before av TedJae
over thnt of 7ettir.g a
St1 41D tJtvTe1st ecr Taki- to t.he the small, it blows so
hard 7ie have to laeL lureelver to a boulzior to from 'wine blown away.
ake it easy, eent:s"tli t7,Amarkan. qt .tting straight on, malt
ti -1 it etartr _.7.11 aver the peek.'
no we huddles, there matching Old North hind lifting his tail over the
peak. Most fearmaAs siFht you or few. To let that -leak he had to circle
and circles easing up to the stares now baekin a bit to let the tail clear
a ledges now flicking it to stml7bten it out. That tail met
hwee been as as from herc to Almelo. It was leeteht up there an the
peak. If you loOked closes you eculd see a Pillion nick. in that tail.
,!Thatis :«hf.rf,, the :)aphaane hal reaped its" said the Nebraikan in a
kiAd of an awe, rty 60/1 Newer knew 5rietles could be so touthr
ell, ..hen it ort-sestmesS 1P conLiet stand it any nores we took a
chime sticking our *teem aver the boldder to get our whiskers Ringed.
Nearly took oir bewde off I can tell y:. Slaved partionlArlz- had -Then
1* ,s swishing his tail. vv.! t,he coli nrose t woodtIckr wttff,
a5_, I was loving, it ins Tircin country then, everythtmg 1-ree
overni:ht. get 71re our vtleLcrs sere ar, lonr:.
And uek later ticz. .r.-,.2re a !Vat lceT. An.! than vaolticks had thawed
out and mere mkti7 n2 for beet We. Wells we kept singeine tIleato But
it was bard works can tell rm.
)rte it1 *Amy( oot to the peaks there wee thie Nebraskan p Wag
the finiehilu touches to the tilAtf., board walk you ewer :1,;. Nee. wm hadn't
missed 'In because we were 6set mi3erable wit all that bveatiek ,oisen
in Iles wC mo rrtra!
at thfrg he VBS. hammerinr agar at the
braces, and haulirw to test the strength of hie bomrdealk. Tan it
clear eryand the peaks with cable rails, it.e..ltrvin7 !,11 and Ivt like t'T..em
derbies t4fy Tictke for the kid tholnylands.
,e werc so astounded, we lust ctdood there. Up north we could hear
ad North And commeadlne. on his niuht/y rounde. As due tr., hit the peak
any moment. 'Cause am strmieht vo.ind North Windlass faster than greased
lightning. Valls the 34braakan threw off ais olot* s everithinc but his;
Icca socks, weinhted sea down with e boulder and got an bill board walk.
*Yin Tafru34oar it a halooli. if ron morons Ain or eerie* I Should
say, it leaked just like a wooden platform stinting rron a rook tower. Thew
curves were beilt awarding to the Imes of 9rber 212.e.olozy. Perfects Oast
an eil'hteenth of an inch Into tt,c '471ItIM t..-t7!r path, that is of
keeth And's tall. It had to he 001. If you blilt that Aatfrann ...eventeenth
of an inch it, the edge woald take your Okla off; an the other bends if
you'd pet no better than a rtnof volld have to de it ovr,r train next week*
Neil, 7,1r, that mind:maserovitnr awalloopiega we lalhed ourselves to a
sac t!)0 Nebraskan flaeten his rAf.7% Ilmer4s belt to the Gable
ralliar jest in tiuee The blow was. at first terrific. Then !Trthwind
started to slirel t the stern: to lAft9 tril over tho peak, we heard a
fenny slattiVing emend. *virie tter. me looked ever thn torailars there
was 'parks flyinr t at.Irre, C*.S1t.771.!..14. Nehrsakan was no coated
with rroA he loaked a riaTan r'10f't. wat%1:17 'CRIBS bc Ins movinc
wound, ;lam one ley new the ether1 ilwtnin7 a it Int, the 017e# tlIen j7inor
beak, like it was Nyttinr tee het. i-ron't1,10 to tile he wetld in beak
bard aYa;.nst the oliff,te shatter the frot. off Ntm, ar," then 7-7-1 el 1-.! see
hits of -In as oIman.and at V held born 3ast enntalered.
Afters *01;2 it Tot warner. i'elt 1.1.'st comin,-„fmo\ the mtr.'
tail. 4 ;!°2,1t r4! rA1 the hlardmal,c -110 started to mere/Pro f!7urimg that as
maws se the lelarm*An bed ipt 7 aft, Far,VAT lne *fun would step up
and the rewt mait 'It line nor their tarn.
The isibmakan laved us sew. lweat was 2ourin7 ri2rtr. bin -nr!
red all all aver like a beet. Clean shave -11 I'VerywhrreS nventrtxr t!!e air pits&
Then come the meet gosful scream yi:n ever did :wsar. Sou like the
world ms being torn apart in. ane rip. The North And's tail drosd so
fast, the head *as in eight before you could yell "Timber". Blood ran from
the dable rail about the baard walk and splashed all over the planking, Dowel
below, in the canyon, the sacs is turning red. e lc,oked to the met.
Merry a sign of the dawn. It me blemi Vait VIMO t4rniag the saw= erismans-
The *cloth kindless bleeding from all them woodticks that had dug into it as
soon as its cutting edge had warmed up on the. Nebraskan's beard, Tbat's Irby
Thom ticks ;nig in so ciee? they gave the wind a fewer. flly he's a sluggieh
creature1 is the t4arth Ibat's why ht took h17 se long to realise
what was hapAming to him. That wind is de long it takes hours for its
nervous eutea to lick. t wee it does,
ell, sir, the Nebraa.an rot the cleanest shave al; awrr any man could
pftflt The hest part was, his hair newer rev z1 n. Wiwi from the root*.
Now if I had thmcht of rig,: nf. that., Antierm, I miAlt be the cleanest
paramount shaved man in the tat e of Alehington low