Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-08-08

day or two later-at a time when
was so famished that I was ready T.
do almost anything to appease N,
hunger.
1t was about z o'clock in the even
. ing. I was expecting Huyliger at 8
but l hadn't the slightest hope that h,
would bring me food, as he had told
me that he wouldn't take the risk Of
having food in his possession wher
calling on me. / was standing at the
window in such a way that I could
see what was going on in the street
without being observed by those who
passed by, when 1 noticed my friend
the cat, coming down the steps of the
opposite house with something in his
mouth. Without considering the risks
l ran, opened the front door, ran
down the steps and across the street,
| and pounced on that cat before IT could
get away with its supper, for that, as
l had imagined, was what I had seen
in its mouth. 1t turned out to be
! piece Of stewed rabbit, which l confis-
Gated eagerly and took back with me
| to the house.
Perhaps I felt little sorry for the
| cat, but l certainly had no qualms
about eating the animals dinner. I
was much too hungry to dwell upon
| nicetes, and piece of stewed rabbit
was certainly too good for cat to eat
when man was starving. l ate and
enjoyed it and the incident suggested
to me way in which might possibly
obtain food again when all other ave-
nues failed.
From my place of concealment fire.
gently saw huge carts being pushed
through the streets gathering potato
Feelings, refuse of cabbage and similar
food remnants, which, in America, are
considered garbage and destroyed. In
Belgium they were using this SCAR
bage" TO make their bread out of, and
while the idea may sound revolving to
US, the fact is that the Germans have
brought these things down to such a
science that the bread they make this
way is really very good to eat. 1 know
it would have been like cake to me
when 1 was in need of food indeed 1
would have eaten the garbage" di- /
rect, let alone the bread.
Although, as 1 have said, I suffered /
greatly from hunger while occupying /
this house, there were one or two /
things observed through the keyhole 1
or from the windows which made me 4
laugh, and some of the incidents that /
occurred during my voluntary impris-
onment were really funny.
From the keyhole 1 could see, for in
stance, a shop window on the other
side of the street, several houses down
the block. All day long German SOL
diers would be passing in front of the
house and 1 noticed that practically
every one of them would stop in front
of this store window and look in. Oc-
casionally soldier on duty bent would
hurry past, but l think nine out of ten
of them were sufficiently interested to
spend at least minute, and some Of
them three or four minutes gazing at
whatever was being exhibited in that
window, although I noticed that it
failed to attract the Belgians.
/ have a considerable streak of Curl
osity in me, and l couldn't help won
1ering what it could be in that window
which almost without exception
seemed to interest German soldiers but
,afled to hold the Belgians, and after
'onjuring my brains for while on the
problem l came to the conclusion that
he shop must have been a book-shop
md the window contained German
which, naturally enough,
would be of the greatest interest to
he Germans but of none to the Bel
,ians. 4
AT any rate 1 resolved that as soon as
light came 1 would go out and in
eStigate the window. When I got the
nswer 1 laughed so loud that I was
fraid for the moment 1 must have at
racted the attention of the neighbors,
ut 1 couldn't help it. The window
'as filed with huge quantities Of
Nusage! The store was a butcher
hop and one of the principal things
hey sold apparently was sausage. The
isplay they made, although it con- :
isted merely of sauSages piled in the :
-indow, certainly had plenty of pull
lg" power. 1t pulled" nine Ger !:
lans out of ten out of their course and :
pulled" me right across the :
-reeti The idea of those Germans be-
lg so interested in that window dis .
lay as to stand in front of the win :
DIV for two, three or four minutes at :
time, however, certainly seemed
lnny to me, and when 1 got back to :
lie house l sat at the keyhole again :
Id found just as much interest as
fore in watching the Germans stop .
their tracks when they reached the :
indOw, even though 1 was now aware :
hat the attraction was.
One of my chief occupations during
csc days was catching flies. would :
tch fly, put him in a spiders web :
here were plenty of them in the old :
use), and sit down for the spider to
me down and get him. But always I
ctured myself in the same predica-
ant sind reScra5 tha fv inst aS tho