Douglas Island news., 1911-04-05

in the good old days. 1 saw two that would weigh over 300 pounds and seven or eight that would go over 200. A cat ap0lt that could have thrown one of them could easily shoot man few hundred feet. The village people told me that they had fought during the siege, but Barney Mcguire told me that they did nothing of the kind. may be clannish, but believe Barney is right. I crossed over to Catenas on the ferry. The Black Count used to have chain tied across the river here. When moneyed man came sailing along and struck the chain he generally stopped long enough to make small loan to "His Blackness." walked down the bank about three miles, village suc- ceeding village so fast that they seemed to be all one. All at once found my way barred by locked gate. Nobody in sight. 1 kept down trail by the side of the railroad. It led through burdocks, milkweed and thistles. The railroad was fenced off so that l could not cross it. Every few feet man peeped over to see me and each time asked to be put on the main road. No good. They nearly all said something to me, but their remarks did not make any perceptible improvement in my education. At last ran slap. bang into an old castle courtyard from which 1 could ses no escape. tried couple of passages; one took me into coal house or woodshed, the other into cellar. At last young woman ap- peared. asked her if she spoke Eng | fish or French, but she shook her head indignantly. l told heY that l wanted to get out of the castle. She talked loud and fast and pointed back the way 1 came, but did not want to go back miles through those burdocks again and miss my train. She left me and brought out a lot more young women and girls with large bosoms. l said, 4 want to get out" They all shook their heads and pointed to the inside of the castle 1 asked, 'Do you want me to stay here2" "Ja, ia, ja, jap they all yelled. I looked around at them and said, "Ill be damned if do; 1 am try ing to be decent" They all talked at once and apparently talked we'll. There was templar's tower behind me, but it did not interest me- cannot tell now whether it was stone or mud. The The thresher was going on the other side of the river; it was evening and it was tired. The TailiDg moan of i tired threshing mill always depressed me. but this simply demoralized nc. 1 made disgraceful, shameful, cowardly | retreat and went back the trail about 1 200 yards when ! saw railway officials 1 head peeping over at me. told him that l was all tangled up with burs, women and German red tape. He went | back to the castle and l at last made them understand that did not want the castle; that ! hardly ever used them but did want to go to CoblentZ. He went off again and brought back three or four young soldiers. They all talked, but l did not understand word. I said, "Coblentz;" then wrote Coblentz station. By and by they grasped some- thing, and, flashing off, beckoned me to follow. We came to the railway; they crossed the iron fences and signal wires and told me to do the same. Idid, and yet if they had seen me do that without their instruction l would have been in iail yet. We passed two more castles, but why bother about them? We were in sight of the station and said to my guides or gards tthere were now six), "L thank you, boys, for your trouble, and if you come in we will have mug of beer" do not know what they thought | said, but they disappeared as if the ground had swallowed them. There are two things that will always worry me: 1st-What did those boys think said to them? 2nd-What did those girls say to me in the castleF
 (To be continued.l