The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-11-24

gents you are no doubt aware of
che fact that when hooch begins
to exhibit the aforementioned symp-
,om< time for man, DESTROYS OF
ontinuing his pleasant sojourn on
mis- PLANETARY demonstration of the
laws Of miscalculation, to get busy
With the construction of some kind
Of wind-break or the equal thereof,
Tor the innocent little zephyrs that
20 rambling through the sparkling
Jnowflakes sometimes produce a
lad effect upon the human anatomy,
so Frenchy and gently sprints
bout and find a place we coincide
viii do for few days camping
ground, arect an unpretentious edi-
flee of spruce boughs and other &C
cessories, and commence to play at
/ keeping house.
We had stayed at this summer
resort some five or six days, a
musing ourselves with such harm
less pastimes as chopping wood and
performing unclassifiied war dances
TO keep warm. when Frenchy, who
was holding down the job of head
chef, comes to the fore with the
pleasing information that our com
missary is getting depleted TO
that extent whereat 1t is uneces-
sary for us to elevate our corporal
systems to a semi-reclniing position
and engage our several intellectual
titles with the problem of our i'm
mediate future subsistenance, and
we Jointly and severally decide that
we must leave our happy home in
he morning and proceed toward our
destination, which we id, seeing
,hat the weather had moderated to
that extent that it was only
about As degrees below nothing
and that our supply of dog fish
and bacon moderated to about the
same joyful extent, however, we
sambled sispatoriously along in
the direction of the indian viii
lage, Notwithstanding our victuals
were somewhat gnawed by the pangl
OF an awful hunger due to the short
age of bacon and flour, and the nal
amute CANNES that furnished the
motive power for our luxurious con-
veyance were reduced to that con-
dition of abject humility, caused
from living on ozone and copious
md judiciously administered doses
II raw-hide, that they refused to
be insnlted none-whatever even
when l resorted TO the extremity
If twisting their respective caudal
lppendages, hoping thereby to ac-
;elerate their gate to at least some
hing resembling the dead-march.
When we finally arrived to with
n one days much of the indian viii
age we were hungry enough to eat
he harness right off the dogs
)acks without even waiting to
make a stew of it or raise any
| question whatsoever as to its val
.e as dietory appurtenance.
That night after we had fixed up
he camp to suit our fastidious
iste, we looks over our supply of
lalicoius eatables and Frenchy de-
ides to make hammock. flour and
,aking powder mixed to stiff
ough and cooked in frying-pan,
# the entire stock which consisted
ccording to inventory, of huge
lab of bacon almost as large as
our finger and one not overly
arge handful of flour with all the
inow-water we what for filling. Sc
rrenchy losses the above mention
d articles into skillet and sets
he same on the fir eto cook, while
mount guard thereon to keep the
nalamutesf rom committing grand
raceny with II and thereby depriv-
ng us of our sumputous repast
which will be our last until next
lext night or later if we don't make
he village Ms per schedule.
Now. Frenchy was very nice
elbow all right. and l have nc
| grudge against him, but he had one
ernaeious habit that was his only
failing as far as am able to de-
ermine with any degree of accura-
". His objectionable fault was
hat he didn't seem to pay any a
lention whatever TO the hardships
IF the trail or the condition OF the
weather. when he should have
been feeling subdued and respectful
ne was inyariable jubilant and friv-
ilous, which never was after
breaking 80 miles of heavy trail
with my belt took up three holes
EAST the last one, and just at this
important time he didn't seem in
no great hurry to satisfy the urgent
demands of the inner-man by par
taking of the luscious half-cooked
yiands sizzling in the skillet. Ha
tJa he gigplAs watch mo do 20 one