Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-21
AsHIABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY MARCH 21 1879

grow Sleepy. To keep me awake
cooked bear meat and eat it until
couldn't swallow q morsel more. I
found it was almost impossible for me
to keep awake. Maybe it was the cold
that vas benumbing me. I rubbed to-
baceo in my eyes 10 keep them open.
! But il was of no use. Do what could
I went to sleep, and when awoke nv
fire was nearly out and the pack Of
wolves not more than three rods from
me, their tongues a lolling out and
their green eyes blinking at me. l saw
my danger and seized my wooden poker
in one hand and a limb of the tree in
the other, expecting to draw mEseh up
the tree il the wolves triad 70 lay hold
of me- My IRE, luckily, began burn
ing, and no sooner was it in 9 blaze
than away scurried the wolves, making
a terrible snarling and bowling. The
chances would have been dead against
me if I had been asleep five minutes
longer! Then, perhaps, soIqebody else
IN another country would have done
the fish-hatehing. You may bet I
didn't go to sleep any more that night,
Tor it was nigh on to morning before
'aAAOSS " O4h SADaAA O0b-
1 started again for the clearing, which
expected to reach By that night, but I
was mistaken Now, hsdn't single
drop Of water since the morning of the
day before, save the little had licked
of the leaves gof the trees, when
slight rain had fallen. My tongue Just
stuck in my mouth, and was as dry as
my hand. / travelled along until three
o'clock, when struck little stream
of pure, cold wster. never was more
tickled IN my life. l was very much
Pleased when I saw my first shad wrig-
gle in the eggs, and hatch out, at Holy
eke, on the Co1necdeut River, but it
was OF small account when compared
with the sight of that pretty stream. /
thought, when lay down to drink, I
would fill my mouth with water and
just spit it out butt could not, it went
down too quiols9 l took & dozen great
gulps before I was through Then ]
made the woods Just ring with my
laughter. Then tried the water again,
and must have kept up drinking for
about an hour.
After that started on, and had not
gone far before killed yearling buck.
1 cut off as large piece as thought
would last me to eat while was in the
woods. 1t was big chunk of venison
you may be surs of that. Soon it
was tight again ! built me another
fire, turned ID had a good sleep, with
nothing to disturb me. Next day
Travelled until three o'clock, when /
heard the sound of an ak. followed
that sound and found man cutting
wood, to burn and make ashes. The
man told me 1 was nine miles from
the road. HO started me right, and I
lfoundit atlfVs twas night then. and
raining. rolled myself in my bear
skin, and went to sleep. About three
q 'clock il the morning thought I
heard 9 wagon cCming along, and so it
turned out. 1 did not see anybody in
the wagon guiding the horses, so I
stopped the team, and, as it was going
my way, got, in. To my surprise, in
the bottom lof the wagon lay big man,
sound asleep. The large man was fun I
of some kind q LIQUOR. and as be was !
liable 20 sleep some time, took the
lines and kept the horses going. Ihad
as much IS sixteen miles to 60 ret.
Now, thought Z L ean . 10 1pE.
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