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Title: Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
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Publisher: Chicago, R. B. McKnight & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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blamedef I can see what he wants with a cow. If you had aasked me how many cows mam had I could a-toldyou. In the neighborhood surrounding Henseleys Grove,a sleepy station on a Southern railway, in Arkansas,there was but one feature^ to attract attention and thatwas a young fellow with one leg. His name was DanPeters; and he had lost his leg one night while tryingto save a passenger train. There had been a suddenrise in Goose Creek and the bridge had been sweptaway. Dan had been to mill that morning and on hisway home he found that the bridge was gone, and heknew that it was nearly time for the north-boundpassenger train. He was on the right side of thecreek. He built a fire on the track and waited. Hethen tied his old mare to a bush, and about the timehe lighted the fire he heard her trying to get loose.He ran to her. • She had thrown ofif the sack of mealand was tugging at the bush. When he came backwithin reach she let her hind feet fly and kicked him. OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 71
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72 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. He must have fainted, for it was some time afterwardbefore he knew anything, and then there came the con-sciousness of two things; one was that his leg wasbroken and the other was that the fire had gone out.He was suffering intensely, but he knew his duty. Hedragged himself up the embankment, and with his be-numbed fingers he fumbled with a match. His suffer-ing was so great that it required all his strength ofwill to keep his mind on the work that he sought toaccomplish and he must have fainted again, for a newsensation of pain aroused him—he was sprawling onthe track and the match had burned aw^ay in hisfingers. He heard the train. He uttered a cry. Washis last match gone? He fumbled in his pockets. Onewas left. But the wood was wet and the kindling hadburned out. He saw the headlight. He snatched oft*his coat. He tore off his shirt, and struck the match.It burned. He touched it to his shirt, and then with astruggle he stood on one foot and high above h

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