Track's End

great many People go away from Tra

iness part of the town was saved. There was no water to be had, nor time to plow a furrow, so we fought the fire mainly with brooms, shovels, old blankets, and such-like things wi

e out there. Don't you su

claimed Allenham. "We'll try

kness. But though we were divided into small parties and searched all that night and

e country ahead of all of us, then he's down a badger-hole and intends to stay there till we

les down the track. The little end door had been broken open from the inside with a coupling-pin, which Pike must have found in the car and kept concealed. Wit

settlers who had taken up claims in the neighborhood also went back east for the winter, some of them on the train, but most of them in white-topped covered wagons. There was almost no business in town, and if you wanted

came on the twenty-sixth day of October, and lasted three days. It was as bad as it ought to have been in January, and the people at Track

he wind shifted to the northwest. In the morning it was blizzarding. The air was full of fine snow blown before the wind, and before noon you could not see across the street. Some of the smaller houses

did come it seemed as if everybody in town was disgusted or frightened enough to leave. When the second train after the blizzard had gone back, there were bu

morning, after every one had 26 left the breakfast-

here are only three or four boarders left, and them not

can run the barn, but I'm afraid

ll, too. He always said his mother taught him how to cook. That means I'm a-going down on the train to-morrow, and not

Sours. "You may go; Jud

y the wolves that we already hear howling every night, and murdered by Indians, and shot by Pike and that wretched 27 band of horse-th

ith three boarders–Tom Carr, the station agent and telegraph operator; Frank Valentine, the postmaster; and a Norwegian named Andrew, who was to take my place

s left. On the morning of that day week Tom Carr came over from the station and brought word that he had just got a telegram from headquart

d Harvey 28 Tucker. "I shall go back

st. "I know when I've got enough, a

ughed cheerfully. He was by far the oldest man

ng the mail, and it can bring it just as well once a week as twice. We were really pa

not come to supper. I went over to his rooms to see what the trouble was. I found him on the bed in a high fever. His talk was ram

e combination; and there aren't any burglars here," he sa

ck if he did not think it would be best to send him away on it in the morning to his friends at St. Paul, where he could get proper care. Burrdock agreed to this plan. Toward morni

of it," he said in a sort of a feeble way. "Y

he best I could, and he

y who took the train; there were five others, making, with 30 Mr. Clerkinwell, eight, and leaving us six, to wit: Tom Car

m Carr mayor, Jim Stackhouse treasurer, and Andrew street commissioner, with instructions to "clear the streets of snow without delay so t

etty big yob to put

LAWS' LETTER, D

ting along close to the ground. I noticed that the rails were already covered in front of the depot. The telegraph wire hummed dismally. We were plowing along against the wind when we

over. At that the man stuck the letter in the box of a b

the cart I unfolded

ack's End and other

be no trubble. If we don't get munny to buy fuel with we shall have to burn your town to keep warm. Maybe it will burn better now than it did last fall. So being peecibel ourselves, and knowing how ve

pecfully,

mrous

ewhat short o

o how to u

try but we