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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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lonely woman; but herfaith and trust and courage did not eventhen forsake her, and at last her patientwaiting was rewarded. It was ChristmasEv^e when the storm cleared aw^ay, and agleam of sunshine broke at last throughthe long overhanging clouds. She wentto the window to watch the welcome light,and then she caught sight of her husband,struggling painfully through the heavydrifts on his way to the cabin. He wason foot, and only an Indian guide waswith him. Slowly he came on, but at lasthe reached the house, and, scarcely ableto speak, fell exhausted in the openeddoorway. The reason of his long delay was soonmade known to the overjoyed woman.He had no sooner arrived at his old homethan he was stricken down with a fever,the seeds of which he had carried fromthe malarial swamps of Conneaut. Assoon as able to mount his horse he hadset out to return; but the heavy snows inwestern New York had so impeded hisprogress that he did not reach Buffalo tillthe 3d of December. There, though scarce-
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TRAVELLING IN THE OLDEN TIME. 566 HAEPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. ly able to sit his horse, he liad halted onlylong enough to secure an Indian g-uide—for the snow liad obliterated the trail, andnone but a native could find the waythrough the forest in such weather. Theyliad set out tog^ether on the following day;■and thus he had been exposed, day andnight, for three long weeks, to the stormthat she had heard howl so furiouslyaround the little cabin. The drifts inmany places had been higher than hishorses head; in one of them tlie animalhad perished, and he would -have sharedits fate but for the fidelity of the faithfulIndian. The rest of this winters tale ma.y bebriefly related. The revulsion of feelingconsequent on the return of her husbandprostrated Mrs. Kingsbury. She was her-self now attacked with the fever, and un-able to give her child its natural nourish-ment. The life of the infant then hungupon that of the half-starved cow, whosesole subsistence Avas the small twigs of thel

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