The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-28

dyin'. He'd got over his weak feelin, and that shows he wasn't starved.
 Anyway he went off down that trail like wild man, huntin' for eatables with his mouth open, and he hadn't gone moren half mile fore he smelled roast pork. That brought him up all standin like he'd been smote fin the face, as the poet fellow says. He didn't waste a min ute. It came driftn' up from hollow down amongst the hills. and he followed up that scent like a hound dog after rabbit.
 He couldn't wait to get his teeth in that pork. He was more'n half loony by that time from wanderin' round alone, and he went as careful as though he was on eggs for fear that roast pig would hear him comin' and sneak off fo he got to 1t. He wasn't far wrong about that, either.
 '"rhe last part of the trip he went on his belly through the grass stallxin' that pig like 1t was alive and kickln The smell of it as he come closer drove him wild, and when he got within sight of it nothin' could "a held him. If he'd been in his right mind he'd a backed off into the brush and made long, healthy tracks i in the other direction, but by that time, with the hollow in his stomach and the long crawl through the grass. and the smell of the roast pig he was plumb nut ty and didn't care.
 Down there in the hollow was a little fire, and over it hung the little pig all brown and crisp and sizzly, with the juice runnin out and spittin' in the flames, and around it, waitin' for it to get good and done. sat five little devil niggers on their ham bones.
 'I don't believe Kitson saw a livin' thing but the pig. Anyhow he jerked a cartridge into his Krag, meanin to shoot the animal if he made any break to get away, an givin one scandalous yell, he come out O them bushes like a full blood buck on the warpath He had his Krag his hip, and that side-of-a- house face O his was all tore open with hunger and eagerness. and I'm willin to bet he was some furious lookin
 "lf they'd left him the pig, all five O them little brown boys might a slipped into the jungle and he'd never bothered 'em But he had the drop on 'em clean. and they didn't take any chances. They just hudded together in bunch, sur prised clean off their feet.
 That seems to be about the first time Kitson took any notice of 'em at all. Bunched together, they sort O made an impression on him, and he got sudden idea they was aimin to e.chre him out O that pig
 "I bet his language that mornin would 1 a burnt holes in a hemlock board It's a wonder he didn't pump them insurrec- tos full O lead. He had 'em good and plenty skart him wavin' the muzzle of his Krag round under their chins. while his fingers worked careless like about the trigger guard. They was pleadin' ptiful for mercy, and he was a bullyraggin' 'em outrageous both in languages the other didn't understand. x.nd whilst he kept 'em covered with the gun in his right hand he was a-hookin' the pig off the fire with his left
 "It had stick run through it length wise, and he damned one end O that in the ground and dropped down cross legged contiguous to the pig.
 Sit down" he wells to them poor little devil niggers, motionin' with his rifle, and they squatted down. blue-gilled and obe- dient, in front of him. Then he digs out his clasp knife and digs into the pig.
 Well. 1t happened that the company was a-hikin' back that mornin. still fol- lowing them fool guides. Wed come ten miles since midnight, and was humpin along the trail half asleep and swearin, when we got the order to halt, and quit talllin and keep quiet. We didn't know what was doin for minute, and then from down the hill on our left come up horrible streak O blue vitriol language. It seemed to come from a hollow a ways below us, but the jungle was too thick to see anything. so we waited, kind O speculatin in our minds. while Chislett and a couple O guides slipped down to investigate.
 Directly the cataract O cuss words sort O died out in bubbles. and every thing was quiet Then it begun again. but seemed a little bit damned in its flow.
 Then we got an order to deploy and