Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-01-07
VICTORY OVER THE BLooDuouNDs.

VICTORY OVER BLooDHoUNDs.
DO. but We alto our breakfast IN a back kitchen.
and then went into tho large house to get oYf
talked a little time about the weather ami
They as!,ed US il We had not broken 1sil in A..
advised us to surrender. saying that the ferries
and roa 8 were all guarded. and that part Of our
comrades had been shot down IN the woods. and
that they had come to take US. Brown said: mo,
we won't; now you see II we do" We jumped
out of tho back door and made for the neizhbor.
ing wood, |nmpin: the fence aad running like
round the end Of the house, calling, Halt, hait:''
but we did not halt. We had no choice but to
aD,s same e day. We Ven i,n De- ooE'1 to cut cut a % Hs.a the
road to cct in behind them, as We feared to cross
,ss q s2S ,a.gr l ant 4;s9;;; S ~. o Ss , tai5sd r sRS
Whom We had stayed turned bis hounds loose
and put t 'em on our trail. We had q big hill TO
go down and then one n To- go up before We could
could hear the hounds coming their best. We got
down the bill and across the fiat, and were climb
lug The hiY, when VIC saw that the hounds were
by stopping In q stony place and getting a pile Of
rocks ready. We waited for them to Come close
ss.% az, down ,a' H. .h n,H' and ss s shens a asn sIe so %a s9'esa
but We s7aacuated tic ground for BY this !ins:s
road near BY. on horseback, 70 get ahead Of W.
We got TO the woods as soon as possible. and
when We were out Of sight changed our course 30
part Of their hounds rallied % that they would
Foil " along and howl on our track, but they
could not be made 70 close up OF us any more.
ing US Oh again. and then we would cut in On.
otter direction, and the hounds would give them
our course sgain. ABOUT noon We came 70 q small!
w was.1 and drink Is We ran :. Va k Kept i IL tie bed
Of that stream, r, inf. for e = couple n Of h .t1a,: and then lasot The
Stone mountain, about eighteen miles east Of At
ianta, and went on the north side Of IL and con-
picked out the norti, star t and Travelled BY It.
hid By '" day: Escs Day. for SEVERAL RI " days, ". We
f s"l 4. a. day s0s sf,e sr ws i ss; ' %ason We weas a @isS:
on, . bite 70 eat save what the woods furnished.
such as nuts, bark, buds, etc, On tho seventh
willows on both sid's, and which ran through q
held We Wished 70 e1oss, as there were mountains
on tho other side, I'd We thought we could get
on their slope and b travelling In tho day time.
We had great good fortune here, for We. found
two ears Of corn on :he bank and q dock OF geese
IL The The e sora: '. sn' s e yh sstti Nc i ssn' sse m By mean:
even picked : goose without seaidins. they kno!:
We took esch . !ieg sud pulled it in two! then We
ssss Il si L, shs sa. II or ~. 1 Tsssk sesss i i:ssea . eTss s
On the tenth day Va reached the chattahoo-
ehee river. There .ass rail fence alongside Of
ths woods, and We took two large rails. crossed
them near one end. dashed them fast with bark,
and putting our clothes on the highest end, We
6oated at the other ill we got across. We took .
good sleep in the thick cane break on the other
side.
The next evening We came TO . drove Of snail
piss and began to figure for one. Finally I stood
behind a tree with Q club: Brown bit of little
pieces Of apple and pitched to the pigs; and soon
then Brown kept working backward till he passed
the tree where I stood. and when the pig followed
up I shot him with my stick: Previous to this we
found e iron strap that had fastened q shovel to
This was rubbed up q little on stone and 1t made
very good butcher knife. We split the pig, and
with zach a half ran up tho side Of the mountain,
and waited till dark for a wonderful f~ast: We
could see over the farm where there was q fire
burning out in q back field. and we went there
and roasted pig most Of the night Then We had
oae of tuose feasts you read about!. That pig
listed u. IN We truck the Hiwassee river in ths
10 could run . boat dow BY night and hide in
tho day time. But when we saw the river No
changed our mind, for 1t was Q swift stream, full
Of great rocks, whsse We could not have run .