The Pulaskian., 1918-10-11

that whole day, and would scarcely get settled into comfortable position and doze off for a few minutes when, startled by some sound in the woods, would suddenly awake.
 After what seemed like a year or more, night fiaally came, and with q "dud" sky, low-hanging clouds and still more rain. There was not star in the sky, of course, and that made it very bad, because without the aid of the stars had absolutely no way of know ing which direction I was going. It was just case of taking a chance. probably would have been better off if had simply picked out a place and stayed there until the weather i'm proved, but naturally was impatient to be on my way when each day with out food only 1essened my strength and my ultimate chances of reaching the frontier.
 So I left the woods and struck off in the direction which I thought was north. I hadn't been at all sure of my bearings the day before, and as it had rained the sun failed entirely to help me out, but I was almost sure had the right direction and trusted to luck. That night I found more rivers, canals and swamps than I ever found in my life before, but I had the good fortune to stumble on to some celery, and after my diet of beets it surely was treat. Perhaps it's unnecessary to add that l took on good supply of celery and for days I went along chewing celery like a cow would cud.
 Along towards morning, when I SUD- posed I had gotten in a fairly good lap of my journey-perhaps seven or eight miles-I began to recognize certain obs jects as familiar landmarks. At least, I thought I had seen them before and as travelled along I knew positively had seen certain objects very recently. CT at my right-not over a quarter of a nile-I noticed some fairl y good sized woods and thought I would go over there to hide that day. because it looked as though the sun was going to shine and I hoped to get my clothes dry, and perhaps get a decent sleep. had this celery and a large beet, so knew I would be able to live the day through.
 Finally I made my way over to the woods. It was still too dark in among the trees to do much in the way Of selecting my quarters for the day and I could not go step farther. So waited on the edge of the forest until dawn and then set out to explore the place, with a view to finding some nook where I might sleep. Imagine my dis gust, and Encouragement, too, when an hour or so later I came upon the exact place where had spent the day before, and realized that all night long had been circling the very woods l was try ing to get away from. think perhaps had gone all of quarter of a mile in the right direction, but then had lost my bearings entirely, and daylight found me with nothing accomplished.
 The sun, however, did come out that day, and I welcomed its warm rays, as they, perhaps, have never been well comed before. was very tired-just about all in-but I spent better day in the woods than the previous one,
 That night the stars came out; I tried to make up for lost time. But when one is making only seven or eight miles a day, or rather a night, one night lost means a whole lot, especi- ally when each day keeps him from freedom. Such i'll fortune and dis couragements as this were harder to endure, I believe, than the actual hunger, and the accompanying worry naturally reduced my weight. At times 1 was furiously angry with myself for the mistakes I made and the foolish things I did, but I always tried to see something funny about the situation. whatever it might be, that relieved the strain of habit and helped to pass the time away. I think if man is overburdened with sense of humor and wants to get rid of it, this trip I took would be an excellent remedy for it. Right at this time I would have welcomed anything for compan- ion. I believe even d snake would have been Godsend to me.
 With name as Irish as mine, it is only natural that I looked for goats along the way, thinking that I might be able to milk them. There are very few cows in this country, and the op- portunities for milking them fewer than the cows themselves because they are housed in barns adjoining the homes and always alertly watched by their fortunate owners. I did hope that might find goat staked out some place in the fields, but in all my travels I never saw goat or pig, and only few cows. Several times I searched nests for eggs, but somebody always had beaten me to it, as never even found so much as nest egg.
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