Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-04

tloned-and which | cannot name for
rear of Identifying some of the peo-
PIE there who befriended me - |
would proceed with the utmost pre-
! caution. Since l had discarded my
| uniform and had obtained civilian
clothes, had not been quite as care
ful as | was at first
While l had done my travelling at
| night, had not gone into hiding so
early in the morning as before and l
mad sometimes started again before
it was quite dark, relying upon the
fact that l would PROBABLY be mis-
! taken for Belgian on his way to or
from work, as the case might be.
from now on, ! resolved, however.
l would take no more chances.
That evening / came TO a river per-
haps seventy-five yards wide ana |
was getting ready to swim it when l
thought ! would walk little way to
md, If possible, a better place to
set to the river from the bank. I
had not walked more tnan a few
hundred feet when I saw a boat. 1t
was the first time | had seen a boat
in all my experiences
1t was firmly, chained, but as the
stakes were sunk in the soft bank IT
was not much of a job to pull them
out got in, drank to my hearts
content showed over to the other
SIDE. got out drove a stake into The
ground and moored the boat. 1t
would have been a simple matter
to have drifted down the river, but
the river was not shown on my map
and / had no idea where it might
lead me. Very reluctantly, therefore,
l had to abandon the boat and pro
ceed on foot
Making Better Roadway
/ made several miles that night
and before daylight found safe
place in which to hide for the day.
Ftom my hiding place I could see
through the bushes n heavy thick
wood only a short distance away.
decided that | would start earlier
than usUa', hurry over to the wood
and perhaps. in that way, could
cover two or three miles i'm the day
time and gain just so much time.
Travelling through the wood would
be comparatively safe. There was, a
railroad going through the wood, but
| did not figure that would make it
any the less safe.
About o'clock that afternoon
therefore, | emerged from my hiding
place and hurried into the wood
After proceeding for half a mile or so
I came to the railroad. | took a
sharp look i'm both directions and
seeing no signs of trains or soldiers
] walked boldly over the tracks and
continued on my way
| soon came upon clearing and
knew that someone must be living IN
the vicinity. AS | TUNED q group of
trees | saw a small house and in the
distance an old man working in a
garden.
decided to enter the house and
ask for food, figuring the woman
would probably he old and would he
no match for me even II she proved
hostile The old woman who came
to the door in response to my knock
was Older than ] had expected. If
she wasn't close to hundred years,
miss my guess very much.
She could not speak English and [
could not speak Flemish, of course.
but nevertheless I made her under
stand that / wanted something to
eat. She came out of the door and
hollered for her husband in a shrill
voice that would have done credit to
a girl of eighteen.
The old man came in from his gar
den and between the two of them
they managed to get the idea that
was hungry and they gave me "a
piece of b-ead--a very small piecc-
which was quite treat.
The house they lived in consisted
of just two rooms-the kitchen and
a bedroom. The kitchen was per-
haps fourteen feet square, eight feet
of one side of 1t being taken up by
an enormous fireplace. What was
in the bedroom l had no way of tell