Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-10-08
Alone In The
Wilderness
Chapter XI, continued

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
Pll tell you later"
The girl was quickly taken into the
house. / felt relieved My job was
done. | relaxed.
The man began to ask questions.
Don't ask me anything Leave me
alone for an hour" | begged. | did
not want them to touch me at all.
Wont you have glass of cider|'
the man asked quietly.
didn't answer, but he disappeared
and came back shortly with a dipper
full Of the sour stuff 1t was a big two
quart dipper. and it was full. | grab
bed it from his hand and drained it t.
the last drop. The dipper fell from
my hands to the floor, and l sank down
in 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 her
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 mp
pair of legs | was as well as if nothing
had happened the next morning.
When | entered the wilderness on
Aug. 4, 1913, / placed entire depend,
ence upon my knowledge of the woods
which } had gained from practical ex,
perience In the preliminary catechiz
ing Of myself I could think of nothing
that would block me in the undertak
ing
l had never read any books on the
primitive man or the primitive life
simply knew what had been forced to
do in the past, and | felt that such
knowledge would carry me through, as
proved to be the case,
4 knowledge OF wOOdcraft can never
he 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
Of knowledge. While he is in the for.
est man is not making a study OF ma
ture through the medium OF type set
pages. but he is gradually absorbing
the real fundamentals through the
great big open book OF nature-the one
natural textbook. written on the noun.
ta1ns1des, the trees, the surface OF the
waters. and In the thicket, by the
greatest author Of them alI-the Al.
mighty.
In attempting to give you little In
sight into the fascination of wOOdcraft
] win begin by touching upon the va
TiOus trails which are to be found all
over the woods.
There are many kinds OF nails-nat-
ural game trails and those made by
man. However, all trails are very much
alike. In every instance a trail, whether
it be made by man or animal. follows
through the wilderness. over streams,
along the line of least resistance.
When a man builds his camp In a
virgin country ne MAKES MS uan TO the
spring along the easiest way If an an,
imal had come there years before and
started from the site of this same camp
be would have made trail to this
same spring exactly the same as the
man made it-simDly because it was
lie easiest way to make it.
The spotted or blazed trail. like the
others. follows this line Of least re-