I just loved it! Thanks for posting it! Thomas Crane <[email protected]> wrote: As I slipped and stumbled through the darkness I suddenly felt myself falling. That is when I started to panic. I flailed around trying to grasp for anything that might slow my fall and then out of nowhere a hand caught hold of mine and stabilized what I knew would most certainly be my having been swallowed by the vast pit beneath me. My legs began kicking around as I tried to plant my feet on something solid and then suddenly my foot took hold. The hand held fast to my own and I clung to it praying that it would not let go as it drew me up ever so slowly and it enabled me to began to crawl out of what I considered would be my ever lasting tomb. Once I reached solid ground, a sliver of light shone through the walls of the cavern into which I had stumbled. That is when I caught hold of the shadow of the being that had held my hand throughout my whole perilous ordeal. As the words of gratitude began to stammer out of my trembling lips I tried to give thanks as best as I could to that someone who had given me such great assistance and brought me back to what I had thought would be my most certain doom. That is when the shadowy figure turned and began to fade into the darkness that surrounded both of us. As the figure moved away, I saw it's head turn and the words tumbled back to where I was left standing completely exhausted and shaking. "No problem, Mate. Always glad to help a fellow genealogist." Thomas J. Crane Copyright (C) 2005 All rights Reserved ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== Have you visited some of the surrounding counties? http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/#Surrounding_Counties To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/mailist.html#unsubscribe Sue __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com