The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-22

and carefully noting the direction indi-
Gated: That's rather more to tho left
than would choose, but if you say so,
it goes"
Without delay, but without haste, he
made his preparations for the great eG-
fort. Before deciding on course he
had whimpered little; the shock and
pain had unnerved him. There was
now no more of that. He had a purpose
and meant to execute it, With BAN
dages made from portions of his cloth
ing, he bound up the leg to give it some
support. He set his teeth down hard in
strip of leather cut from his shoe,
then fixing his eyes upon landmark in
the distance, which should remain in
view as he moved over the plain, he
pulled his freight"
1t would fatigue you to follow this
mans trail, as foot by foot and hour af-
ter hour he painfully progressed to-
ward the er-holes-tortured with
thirst, beset by doubt whether he
should not find them dry. Upon the
desert man, for lack of water, may
perish in few hours. In the cattle
country they can and do live and suffer
for days without it. This man did. He
was only common forty dollara-
month man. If he did not get through,
another would take his saddle and his
bunk. To the company it mattered not
at all whether the name on the payroll
was John Doe or Richard Roe. He had
lived meanly; not always temporarily.
But he had a trait common to cowboys,
a splendid American grit, and he got
through. On the third day he dragged
himself to the first of the water-holes.
1t contained small amount of brack-
ish and muddy water. Beside il. grew a
stunted willow bush. Beneath the bush
lay sleeping calf Here were all the
elements necessary to insure his safety.
To work it out was a matter of detail
The man does not remember whether
he first shot the calf or first slaked his
thirst, nor when the idea occurred to
him of the perambulatory splints. But
by the time he had eaten his second
meal of veal-which followed very
closely on the f1rst-his plan was COM
plete. He thinks he devoted about
twenty-four hours to refreshments
During that time he kept the leg in
wet bandages, greatly reducing the
swelling
1t was a work of time to cut down
the low-branched willow with his jack
knife and to have fashioned a cane
from the stoutest portion. From small
er branches he made a number OF
splints, and these he bound about the
broken leg by rawhide thongs cut from
the salfskin and we'll soaked in the
pool. The contraction of the rawhide
in drying made a very strong and rigid
support, extending from the foot to the
knee and upon this, with the help of the
cane, he would walk 1t was hot
springing, it was slow and painful mo-
ton, but by contrast with the three
miles achieved in three days on hands
and knees it seemed both rapid and
easy. He covered the distance to the
ranch in one day and night, coming in
just when the foreman was calling
Roll out!''
The first thing he asked, after the
boys had put him in bed and cut off the
rawhide, was for somebody to shave
him.
He had hard enough time for seve-
raj weeks, but the doctor did not ampu-
tate the leg, as he at first threatened to
do. We never convinced this sawbones
though we showed him the rawhide
splint, of the fact that the man walked
eleven miles on broken leg,
''Humbug!" said he. mo such case
on record. The thing is preposterous "
-Argonaut