The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-15
A MAINE ADVENTURE.
STORR OF 4 VEN7URESOME CON-
 NECTICU1 BOY.
Seeking to Become 6 Woodsman He Meets With Misfortune-A Tale From sSport Indecd'' D

In Sport Indeed" a fascinating
 book recently published on hunting ant
 camp life, engaged in principally 1T
 the Maine woods, by Thomas Martin
 dale, is given the following tale il
 reference to aventuresome lad iron
 the vicinity of Hartford, whom MT
 Martindale found in distress in the for
 est and assisted on his way to his
 home:
 When we reached the little hotel al
 the lake end of the Carry we had tC
 wait several hours for a steamboat tC
 take us to Greenville, forty miles away
 whence the train is taken for Bangor
 Here l noticed youth who looked fee
 ble and sick, as if nigh unto death. He
 was farmers boy whose home was
 near Hartford, Conn. The boy had read
 and reread stories of hunters; fo their
 happy lives in the woods and their ig-
 norance of restraint. and poured over
 them until his brain had room for noth-
 ing else. The reading of Coopers novels
 had so fired his imagination that he
 resolved to live the life of hunter and
 to do it he believed that nothing more
 was needed than to go into the woods
 with a rifle and a rubber blanket. This
 was no theory for him to dream over,
 but one to act upon. He came alone
 from his farm went into the woods and very soon stalked deer which he suc-
 ceeded in killing. Then his youthful
 breast beat high with rapture as he
 saw the noble quarry lying at his feet. But hunger must be appeased, and he was hungry, no doubt about that. He dressed the deer, cut a steak, still reeking with animal heat, built a fire
 toasted the venison eagerly on a stick and greedily ate it. Then spreading his rubber blanket on the ground and with out either a blanket to cover him or a sleeping bag to crawl into he laid him down in the frosty air and slept the sleep of youth and tired out nature
 Next morning he awoke with shiver- ing body and chattering teeth and q burning pain in the intestines. Hang ing up his deer in a tree as well as he could, he built a fresh fire and tried to warm his body and dispel the chill which at last gave way to fever and a splitting headche. The morning passed, noon came, and night, and there he lay. On the morning of the second day, prone upon the ground, with the red squirrels busy about him gathering their winter stores, the poor boy lay. Here, sick, far from home, from kindred, from mothers care, or doc tors aid he was found by party of lumbermen who carried him to their camp and nursed and fed him as we'll as they could for six days. Then as the winter was fast closing in they sent a man out of the woods with him to the Carry, and here I saw him. His att tendant asked me if I would look out for him as far as I went. told him could give me more pleasure than to do so. When the steamboat ar rived l tok him aboard got a sofa for him to lie upon, and then looked over my medicen chest. Picking out some tablets, which had very little morphia in them, I gave him one of these every three hours and made him drink hot milk with some cayenne pepper in 1t.
 We reached Greenville very late at night, left at the next mornig and arrived at Bangor at about noon, leav- ing the latter sometime in the early af- ternoon. At these places, and wherever and whenever I could get the hot milk. [ made the poor boy drink 1t. At Port land, I had a doctor examine him who said that the boy was certainly in the | early stages of typhoid fever and that | le also had intestinal catarrh, caused | ly eating of the venison before it had | parted with its animal heat. The doc- or also said that the tablets l had | ,iven him were right and that the | lot milk was right We reached Bos- on at o'clock in the evening, and l thinking that the train l was to take vas the same which was to carry the ,oy to his home, I took him to the depot, but found l was mis- aken, and that he had to go by the Boston & Albany railway. My time was hort and his to- Checking my own baggage I engaged my berth, then left nv son with the remainder of the stuff md started for the other depot. It was aiming heavily, and at that time Of light I could find neither carriage nor treet car, and so was compelled partly 0 support and carry and partly to drag he sick boy on the way. We reached he train with five minutes to spare. After buying his ticket l helped him nto a car, laid him down and then unted up the conductor--a portly, | beggaron-h horseback sort of
 fellow-and asked him if he wouldn't indly look after the boy to the end of is divison and then ask the following / onductor also to see to his comfort. lis reply was perhaps what l might ave expected. No, sir! l have no time ] lok after sick people. I've got my ain to attend to- and if the boy gives ,e any trouble I'll put him off at and send him to the hospi- H. A man was standing near him probably a railway officiaD who had stened to my story and request and to ,e conductors reply He returned 1ickly to the man of brass buttons and 1 yinsing lantern, and spoke with a own, The words were few and their 1rport I did not catch; but, whatever
 may have been the change was mag al. The conductor came forward to- ! ard me and in the most polite and 7 inging manner promised to look { ter the boy. Then the semaphore over e gate changed from red to white, the ss III rang, a shout of All aboard and $