May 3, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
579 
to put up the swim of my life. Rut the best I 
•could do did not make much headway against 
that current. One of the fellers that had been 
a little more chummy than the rest came closer 
an' tried in every way to encourage me. 
" 'Try an' make this rock, Ben,' he said, ‘an’ 
I'll try to hold you there a minute till you 
breathe a spell. Now a little further; quick! 
Now you'll make it,' but here I happened to git 
my eye on my other self jest in time to see him 
startin' to roll over the ledge into the water. 
I forgot to wriggle. My pard shouted: 'You're 
lost, Ben I Good-bye, old boy !' 
“Splash came the body into the ice cold 
water, an’ I was back in my old frame ag’in, but 
still had the problem of savin’ myself from goin' 
■over the falls. I tell you, gentlemen, it was a 
close call; nothin’ but those slippery rocks to 
Told to an’ the falls only ten feet behind me 
an’ a sight of rapid water ahead. I was five 
minutes makin’ that swim of one rod. It seemed 
like five hours, but somehow I could see Jane 
before me all the time lookin’ more anxious than 
I ever seen her. Waal, when I got out an’ 
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wrung the water out of my clothes an’ got in 
the warm sun, I felt like another man. Some¬ 
how', I knew that every bit of laziness had left 
my system, an' it really had. 
“I walked straight back, found my axe an’ 
went to cuttin’ harder than I ever did before. 
That night when I come in dad an’ ma looked 
at each other, but never said a word. Next 
mornin’ I was the fust one up, an’ done the 
chores ’fore dad got up. Mam looked surprised 
an' worried like. Didn t say a word to me when 
I shouldered my axe an’ went out. They could 
hear my axe ringin’ all mornin’ an’ ’bout lo 
o’clock mam come out with a lunch an’ set 
down on the log where I couldn’t chop. Said 
she; 'I've brung you a little lunch, Ben; can 
you eat it?’ 
“ ‘Guess I kin,’ says I, an’ begun eatin’ like 
a wood chopper. Mam kept eyein’ me all the 
time. Seemed as ef somethin’ was on her mind. 
Finally she said: ‘What's the matter with you 
Ben ?’ 
“‘Nothin’, I said; ‘why?’ 
“ ‘This change,’ she said. 
“’What do you mean?’ says I. 
“ 'Why, all this work inside twenty-four 
hours. Are you real well?’ 
“I jest busted out into a shoutin’ laugh. 
Mam she jumped as ef she were afeard of me 
an' kind of sidled away from me. Then she 
said : ‘I must be goin’.’ 
“I watched her till she was out of sight, 
then went to my choppin’. At noon dad says to 
me: ‘Ben, you'd better not go out ag’in; you 
don't look well.' 
” ‘I never felt better in my life,’ says I. T 
done more these last two days' than I ever did 
in a year afore.’ 
“ ‘'V\’c know that Ben, an' that' what's a- 
worryin’ us.’ 
“'VVell, that tickled me. To think their 
worryin’ 'bout me for not workin' for ten years, 
then when I did begin, they’d worry 'bout that. 
So I jest give another laugh like I did down in 
the woods. They both looked at each other 
jest the same way as ef they understood. Dad 
whispered to mam. Then they both got up an’ 
dad said: ‘Will you stay here five minutes, 
Ben ?’ 
‘ I said I would. They went out an' in less 
than no time got back, both of them a-holden 
to Jane. 
“She looked at me quite curious like for a 
minute, then said: ‘What's the matter, Ben ?’ 
“ ‘Why, nothin,’ Jane, only I’ve been workin’ 
an’ what’s more, I intend to keep a-workin'. 
I’m a-goin’ to clear this ten acres for dad, an" 
then I’m a-goin’ to clear ten more an’ build a 
cabin ef you'll take care of it for me.’ 
“This last came out afore I knowed it, an’ 
all the time I was a-sayin’ it I was a-lookin' 
straight into Jane’s eyes, as I never had afore 
When I fust commenced talkin’, she looked 
kinder surprised like. Then as I kept on, her 
eyes begun to brighten, gitten’ brighter an’ 
brighter till I finished, an’ then I realized what 
I had done. I wished I could have slunk out 
where dad an’ mam couldn’t hear me git re¬ 
fused. 
“But they didn't hear it, for she walked 
straight over to me an’ took my big hand in 
hern, an’ said: ‘Ydu'11 do it Ben, I know you 
will, an’ what’s more I’ll help you ma'xe the 
cabin a home.’ ’’ 
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