New Mexico state record., 1918-09-13
CHAPTER X.-Continued.

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The knaCk of making fire with two
pieces of dry wood | had often read
about. but had never put it to II test
and for various reasons ! concluded
that it would be unsafe for me To
build fire even If had matches. In
the first place, there was no absolute
need for it. ! didn't have anything
To cook nor utensils 10 cook il in even
If | had While the air was getting
To b" rather cool at night. | was usu-
ally on the 60 nt that time and didn't
notice it. In the daytime. when |
usually out.
To have borrowed matches from Il
Aelgian peasant would have been feaS-
ible. but when | was willing to take
the chance of approaching anyone, it
was just as easy to ask for food as
mntches.
1t the second place, 1t would have
been extremely dangerous to have
built II fire even If | had needed it,
You cant build n fire in Belgium.
which Is the most thickly populated
country In Europe, without everyone
knowing it, and | was far from anX-
iOuS to advertising my whereabouts.
The villages in that part of Bel
GUM through which was making my
course We're so close together that
there was hardly ever an hour passed
without my hearing some clock strike.
Every village has It's clock. Many
times | could hear iii" clocks striking
In two villages ut the same time
But the hour had very little interest
to me My program was to travel a>
fast as | could from sunset to sunrise
and pay no attention To the hours in
between, and in the daytime had
only two things To worry about keep
concealed and get as much sleep as
possible.
The cabbage that | got in Belgium
consisted of the small heads that the
peasants had not cut. All the strength
and they would be as bitter as gall. |
would have 20 he pretty hungry to-
day before | could ever ent cabbage
again and the same observation ap-
nile, to carrots turn,ns and surnr
beotS-eSppcially sugar beetS.
II is r,tbor , re,n,rl,,hI, thing that
tod.v oven i, small ,f ,uruins rox ar
cookod rn,l.s mn. sict and vot 4, favv
short months ago my life depended
upon them.
Niybt ,ft.r nipht os 7 s.,rcb,d for
fo,J vos oIu.,v, i, h,,,, ,h,t
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al,rv-v,gat,lIas which I r.,Irv
Iit,d hut ,vith ,b. ,vc.n,ion of ,ncn
whom I found .o,,,. c.,..y u,s ,o,.,r
ca fort,,u,to I ,t, =, muc,, of tho
c,lerv Pho picht cam, imam II thar
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and # w,s useless ia fish for m. s,l,e
,f !,
nm. ,,cbt +, por,ipu my courso
tont, mo throu,h =, dnsnIn,o r,ratch of |
oarn,n, ,h;oh .,o,,od ,n n. ,hso,rtoIv
u,crIti,otod I mus, have covorod |
traIyo niIos durinr m. ni,h, u;thor,
noss;nc sinrIe farm or cr,,ivatad
an,d Nv stock n, turnins vh;oh 7