Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-21

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denly looked up and really saw the
house just ahead.
1 kept rubbing the girls limbs ant
telling her we were there and encour'
aged her until we reached the yard
There was a light in one Of the win.
dows / staggered up to the door of the
house, fell down on the steps and rap
+, ped The door opened and man ap-
peared. l could just talk, but could
not stand.
Take this woman into the house
and the horse into the stable" gasp
ed "Bandage up his legs and stop the
blood. Don't ask me any questions
I'll tell you later"
The girl was quickly taken into the
house. l felt relieved. My job was
done / relaxed.
| The man began to ask questions.
Don't ask me anything. Leave me
alone for an hour" I begged. I did
not want them to touch me at all.
Wont you have a glass Of cider?'
the man asked quietly.
1 didn't answer, but he disappeared
and came back shortly with a dipper-
full of the sour stuff. 1t was big two
quart dipper and it was full. 1 grab
bed it from his hand and drained it tc
the last drop. The dipper fell from my
hands to the floor, and 1 sank down ir
front of the fire.
We had reached that house after
seven hours of torture and cold
| While the girl had frozen the side OF
her face, one hand and the sides of heI
feet, she recovered. She was covered
with black and blue places where had
beaten her and dragged her about.
The horse came through all right.
With the exception of badly cut uI
pair Of legs l was as we'll as If nothing
had happened the next morning.
When l entered the wilderness or
Aug. 4, 1913, l placed entire depend
ence upon my knowledge Of the woods
which l had gained from practical eX-
perience In the preliminary cate
chizing of myself l could think OF
nothing that would block me in the un
dertaking.
l had never read any books on the
primitive man or the primitive life.
simply knew what l had been forced
to do in the past. and l felt that such
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proved to be the case.
A knowledge Of woodcraft can never
be gained through the reading OF
| books. While certain methods can be
described in this manner the reader
will never grasp the true spirit of the
| subject unless he has the practical eX-
perience to go with it. A little Of this
practical experience goes long way
If a man is really interested, his
year by year contact with the woods
will aggregate a considerable amount
Of knowledge. While he is in the for
est man is not making a study Of ma.
ture through the medium Of type SCI
pages, but he is gradually absorbing
the real fundamentals through th'
| great big open book Of nature-the ont
natural textbook, written on the noun
tainsides, the trees, the surface Of tht
waters, and in the thicket, by tht
greatest author of them all--the AL
mighty.
In attempting to give you a little in
Il ci. ;,,tn hn g
craft 1 will begin by touching upor
the various trails which are to bt
found all over the woods
There are many kinds of trails-nat
ural game trails and those made b!
man. However, all trails are very mucl
alike. In every instance a trail, wheth.
er it be made by man or animal, fol
lows through the wilderness, ovel
streams along the line of least resis
tance
When a man builds his camp in {
virgin country he makes his trail to tn,
spring along the easiest way. If al
animal had come there years before
and started from the site of this sam,
camp he would have made q trail t
this same spring exactly the same a!
the man made it-simply because i
was the easiest way to make it.
The spotted or blazed trail, like tn,
others, follows this line Of least resis.
tance. The blaZed trail is not a tram.
pied trail. 1t is trail made by spot:
on the trees with an az
Swinging to the right or left as the
land may go, but always keeping one
point of the compass in mind, the mar
in making a blaZed trail marks a spo
the last blaze he looks ahead, singles
out another tree, and when he reache.
it makes another blaze there. On hi
goes through the forest, making a spo
here and there in this manner
| Even the amateur can easily follow
a blaZed trail. When he comes to 6
| spotted tree all he has to do is to lool
ahead to the right or left until he sees
another blaZed tree Upon reaching
that he goes through the same per.
formance. Thus he goes from tree t.
tree all the way along the trail
To return to the natural game trails
These trails are worn through the pro.
cess of one animal after another drift
ing along over the same ground. They
use the same route through the fores
because that is the easiest way to go
The woods are full of these trails.
| (To Be Continued).
- William A. Deford, the assistant
district attorney, of New York, who II
conducting an investigation Of the rise