The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-12-16

wagon asaip after they had nshed that out
riftacp'a experience was enough All the
other wagons were brought across ny hama
aud instead 81 starting from Pet Tsans ~
daylight 1, was well on toward noon b"for"
the train was on It, way.
The next stop was lang Tsun. where -FOUR
troops 81 the sixth Cavalry had u camp
and where Col Wint. who was In command
invited the guest, on the transport train
a. come NJ and make themselves ut nome
with him The Colonel trotted out ham and
eggs and vegetables and Jam enough to
feed an army Meantime the wagon master
the guide With the fur trousers ard the driV-
crs were la wing n hustle To cook they had
10 have n FIRE. for n FIRE they had to nave
wood, and In the length and breadth OF the
country around there wasn't n stick 10 oe
had They fOrnged here and they foraged
there and they came back swearina ana
empty handed They begged wood OF the
cavalrymen,w who told them they hadn't enough
for their own use. On In the distance there
was a little mound lie Of tho fur trousers
conferred with the wagon master. and then
they started of for this little mound and began
to dig and dig. By and by they came 10 a
box; they ripped on the cover. and they toted
il back and built a fire. So the supper OF
the teansters the second night out from
lIentstn was COOKED on n III iihue WIN ''V
cover Of a Chinese coffin
Pretty tough" commented the CORE
pendent when he saw what was being done.
Yes" said the guide. but the man that
had It had used it so long he didn't need 1t.
The next morning there was another hunt
for wood and wood was just as hard to ind.
IL was really necessary TO turn the occupant
Of the Chinese cof1n out entirely and TO use
the rest Of the wood to fry the bacon and
boil the coffee. while the hundred and ono
Chinese dogs that had surrounded the camp
during the night rcvelled over the bones
and fought and snarled and bit and barksd
in dispo ing Of them
~ CAMP BY THE RoADslDR
The next stop was 70 be Ho 81 Wo. where
there was q garrison. Whether II was the
excitement due to a horse trade he had made
ar not the man with the fur trousers got the
wagon train of the main road somehow
this day Ho 81 Wo was never sighted and
It came dusk with no garrison in sight. with
Ho 81 Wo evidently behind some distance
and Mathao evidently ahead some distance
Mathao being the first garrison after Ho 81
Wo. The start that morning had been made
with scarcely any breakfast. for somehow
or other with the snarlipg dogs auarrelling
over the bores Of n ~Chinaman, the bacon
and the coffee cooked over the fire made OF
n coffin hadn't tasted just right and nobody
had eaten much So at dusk everybody
was hungry and more or less out Of temper
The drivers didn't want 70 go on to Mathao
that is. they didn't when they oil began TO
howl at tho wagon master 10 atop. Later
on they wished they had gone there. The
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