run-save

Updated: June 13, 2025

There was a strange, horrible, grinding sound, and then they saw the light of that one room move on, waving a little to and fro-on to the rapids, the cohorts of logs crowding hard after. Where the light was two men had started to their feet when the crash came. They felt the House move. "Run-save yourself!" cried the old man quietly. "We are lost!" The floor rocked. "Go," he said again.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

There was a strange, horrible, grinding sound, and then they saw the light of that one room move on, waving a little to and fro-on to the rapids, the cohorts of logs crowding hard after. Where the light was two men had started to their feet when the crash came. They felt the House move. "Run-save yourself!" cried the old man quietly. "We are lost!" The floor rocked. "Go," he said again.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v3