Saved with n Lariat.

Lake County Press, Issue 905, 5 April 1900, Page 7

Saved with n Lariat.

“ You were asking me a while ago abort the lariat and i.s uses,” said a Wis.riu man, "and it reminds me of a time on one occasion when it served an excellent purpose a.s a life-preserver.” " it isn’t always used for that, is it ?” “ Well, no,” laughed the Westerner. ” l’ve seen it do prompt service when there was no other rope bandy and the less thief was. P.ui this time was different,” lit 1 went on. ” I know, because I was the one preserved. We were up in the canon country looking for some cattle, and one of the hoys and I had gone off the trail to a stream to take ;t hath, as you might call it in the East; for ir was hotter than blazes, and shade was not plentiful. We went into the water some distance above a turbulent rapid and a waterfall of 25ft. or 50ft., and as we didn’t go to swim so much a.s to get cool all we needed was enough water to cover ns, and that’s all my coinpan i :i took. “ 1 was, however, more ambitious, and having been a line swimmer when I was in the East I thought I would brrnoh out a hit. 1 was soon branching out extensively. and the first thing I knew the swift water caught me. and down I went towards the fall. I .tried to pull for the shore, but it was no good, and then I set up a yell that made the canon echo, and my partner came after me along the shore. I was 50ft. out in tile stream, struggling, and there wasn’t any more sign of salvation for me than if I had been in mid-ocean.

“ Down I kept going, whirled and turned upside down, and fired around pr miscuonsly, until about a hundred yarns above the final fall I caught on a rock. It was just high enough to keep my head out of water, and I hung to it until my finger nails seemed to be embedded in it. M, partner at this Juncture showed the kind of fellow he was in an emergency, for he appearm on shore with our two lariats tie" get her, and just as I was about to ami be smashed ou the rocks beh. swung that lariat as cool as he . did from the back of his mustang, ami it dropped square over my head. The rest of it I am not very conscious of, Itecanse by the time he had pulled me ashore by the neck I was about as near hung as I ever want to be, but he brought me around all right in the course of half-an-hour or so, and I was quite as good as now again.” “ That was a narrow escape.”

“ Ami that was an odd fellow who saved me,” added the Westerner. “ for he was so mad about the scare I had given him that I’m be blamed if he didn’t turn to before the day was over and give me the worst licking I ever got in my life for scaring him so.”-» “ Washington Star.”