The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-10

startled by some sound in the woods, l would suddenly awake.
 After what seemed like year or more, night finally came. and with "dud" sky, low-hanging clouds and sill 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. II was just case of taking n chance. probably would have been better of If I had simply picked out plac" and stayed there unfrl the weather i'm proved. but naturally I was impatient to be on my way when each day with out food only lessened my strength and my ultimate chances of reaching the frontier.
 So I left the woods and struck off in north. I hadn't been at all sure of my bearings the day before. and nS it had rained the sun failed entirely to help me out but l 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 had the good fortune to stumble on to some celery. and after my diet of beetS il surely was treat. Perhaps it's unnecessary to add that l took on n good supply of celery and for days l went along chewing celery like COW would cud.
 Along towards morning. when I sup posed l had gotten in n fairly good lap of my iourney-peThaps seven or eight mileS-I began to recognize certain ob- jects as familiar landmarks. At least I thought I had seen them before and as travelled along I knew positively I had seen certain objects very recently. or at my right-not over n quarter c: n mile-I noticed some fairl y good sized woods and thought would go over there to hide that day, because it looked as though the sun was going to shine and l hoped to get my clothes dry. and perhaps get u decent sleep. l had this celery and Il large beet. so l through.
 Finally I made my way over to the woods. IL 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 n step farther. So l waited on the edge of the forest until dawn and then set out to eXplor" tn" place, with view to finding som" nook where l might sleep. Imagine my dis gust, and diSCOurag"mrut, too, when an hour or so later I cam" upon the exact place where had spent tn" day before, and | realized that all night long l had hecn cirCing the very woods l WIS try ing to get away from. think perhaps l had gone all of quarter of mile in the right direction, but then had lost my bearings entirely. and daylight found me with nothing accomplished.
 The sun. however did com" ,gr th0t as Qe~, perhaps, have never been wei Anoffed before. I was very tired-iust ab6ft all in-but I spent better day in tlie woods than the previous one,
 That night the stars came out; l located my friend the North Star, and tried to make up for lost time. But when one is making only seven or eight miles n day, or rather n night, one night lost means q whole lu:. cSpcCi ally when each day keeps him from Il arrangements as this were harder to endure, believe. than the actual hunger and tn" accompany worry naturally reduced my weight. Al times WaS furiouSly angry with myself for the mistakes l made and the foolish things did, but l always tried to see something funny about the situation, whatever ii might be, that relieved the strain of habit and helped to pass the time away. 1 think if man is "ycrburdcned with sens" of humor and wants to get rid of it. this trip l took would be an excellent remedy for 1t, Right ut this time l would have welcomed nnrshng for Compan- ion. l believe even n snake would have been q Godsend to me.
 With n name as Irish aS mine, il K only natural that l looked for goats along the way. thinking that l 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 hcCauS" they are housed in barns adjoining the homes and always alertly watched by their fortunate owners. l did hope that I 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 l searched nests for eggs. but somebody always had beaten me to 1t. as l never even found so much as nest egg.
 There was no chance of getting away with any bullying" stun in Luxem- bourg. knew, because the young men have not been forced into the army and are still at home, and as they are decidedly pro-Germnn, 1t would have been pretty hard for me to demand in that part of the country.