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Title: Bushy : a romance founded on fact
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Cynthia May Westover, 1862-
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountains -- Fiction
Publisher: New York : Morse
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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swing-ing back and forth, would not keep warm, and herfeet were now so cold they pained her every timeshe moved them. At last in the distance she sawa faint outUne of the camp, for the moon was look-ing out through the heavy clouds and gave adim light. Next appeared the gHmmer of thecamp-fire. Oh, how far away it seemed to Bushy,now crying in earnest ! Her feet had grown numband her eyes so heavy that she thought she wouldnever get there. She was about to sit dovv^n again when shethought she heard her fathers voice close besideher say, in tones of reproach: All depends on you,Bushy. She started on again, but how she madethe last few yards she never knew. Next day Mr. Robinson, whose camp she hadgone to, told her father all about it. You see I was waked up by hearing a kind ofthump against the cabin. I thought it was our olddog Spot. It was such a tarnation cold night thatI hadnt the heart to keep him out. I got up to callhim, and there lay your Bushy in a heap in the snow.at my feet.
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SHE THOUGHT SHE HEARD HER FATHER SAY, ALL DEPENDS ONYOU, BUSHY. THE NEW Y PUBLIC lib: AS-TOR, LTiLDEiN fL BUSHY 43 I knew something must be awfully wrong. Iwas skeared out of my wits, and gave a halloo thatraised the whole camp. We soon had some brandydown her little throat, which brought her to herselfa bit. She said Padre ! Great Pine Mine ! Snow-slide ! Great guns ! It took the boys just twominutes to be on the way. One of the men rubbedher hands, gave her more brandy, then wrapped herup in a blanket, and with the help of another fellow,carried her back. They found Ned where Bushyhad left him tied to a tree, after which it was easyto reach the camp, and your Tom took care of her. He brushed his coat-sleeve across his eyes as hesaid: Shes a kid in ten million, she is ! The relief party soon had the mine opened andthe men rescued, but had it not been for Bushysbrave little heart they might all have perished be-neath the snow-slide. CHAPTER VI Some time after Bushy had helped save the

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