Life — January 17, 1907 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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t : The Stage Driver's Bluff S WE left Sandy Gulch for Rising Sun there were six male passengers to go by the stage, s over the mountains and full of chances of disaster. The driver came out from tas soon as the stage was ready, and g about on the passengers he selected a Il, pale-faced man and invited him to climb up beside him. While the pale-faced man was climbing up the driver whispered to the rest of us: “I picked him out in order to scare him to death. You fellows will see a heap of fun before. we've gone ten miles!”” Two minutes west of the gulch the roadway made a sudden turn, with a sheer fall of a hun- dred feet down to Wild Cat Creek, and the driver put his horses at the gallop and said to the man: “We may get around all right, or we may fetch up down below. Hold yer breath and say yer countenance, and, after making the course all right, the rider rather indignantly de- manded: “Didn't you see that the off wheel run within a foot of the edge of the precipice ?” “Tt ran within six inches, sir!” was the reply. Beyond the curve was a down grade of a mile, and with a yell and a flourish of his whip the driver urged his horses to a dead run. The five of us inside had to hang on for dear life and every half minute the stage seemed bound to go over. Did ye know that if we’d happened to have struck a rock we'd all been dead men in no time?” “Of course.”” “And ye pt at all.” Three or four miles farther on the driver tried his man with another curve. In his determination to make a clos of it one wheel ran off the edge of the precipice, and only a sudden effort ne horses saved the coach. We were flung in a heap and frightened half to death, but the nan beside the driver never lost a puff of his r. When things were safe the driver turned on him sit n’t prayin’ ?”” ssi quict rap. he closest shave you will ever hev until the | git skeart?” “Nothing has happened yet to scare me.”” “But mebbe ye want me to drive plumb over a precipice a thousand feet high?” “If you conveniently can. The fact is, driver, I came off up here intending to commit suicide, and if you can dump the whole of us over sonte cliff you'll oblige me.”—Adanta Constitution. Lucky 13 O* AN American twenty-five cent piece there are thirteen stars, thirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle’s beak, thirteen feathers in each of the eagle’s w thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel bars in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow-heads, thirteen leaves on the branch, and thirteen letters in the words “quarter | dollar." —New York Tribune. means of setylens yas. P The Harrison has the highest InOWe ality all several new features of convenience that other-high grade cars do not have. From the seat you can: START THE MOTOR — LIGHT THE LAMPS _ . TEST THE SPARK PLUGS TEST THE COILS CLEAN THE CAR OF DUST The tires are inflated automatically. Price. $5000, including full, equipment. Catalogue on request. HARRISON MOTOR CO. “"AXRiAgP® O LIBRARY should be without a complete set of LIFE. Bound Volumes of LIFE, Four Dollars each for the later volumes bound in red and gold, green and gold and full black. Prices of the earlier volumes and complete sets made known on application. The issues of LIFE for six months constitute a volume. To those who send unbound copies in good con- dition the price of the bound volume will be Two Dollars. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City comicbooks.com