Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-01-31

his whistling yet, SO Slim looked to be
the right name for him.
"Slim, what's that big cupboard
for?"
How'd / know? Nuthin' in it"
"Slim, that would make fine box
for coal or wood, wouldn't it?'
"Um. Whar de coal an wOod?"
I'm going out and take observa-
tons, Slim. Take the wheel while I'm
gone, and keep your eye peeled fol
U-boats." So / sneaked out the door
and began looking around.
If you look at the sketch have
made, it will not take you long to see
that next to us was vacated Russian
barracks. And it did not take me
much longer to see it, too. Back to
the hospital and Slim.
"Slim, what barracks are next to
us?"
Russian burrucks. only dey amt
dere now. Been sick"
"And you mean to tell me you don't
know where to get woOd2'
"Sick men been in dem Durrucks."
"Sick men mere, aren't there? Let's
GO"
That did the trick. The black boy
would watch from the hospital win
dows until he saw the coast was clear
then we would slip into the barracks
next door, and he would watch again
When there was no sentry near
enough to hear us, crash! and out
would come dividing board from the
hunks. When we had an armful
apiece, and had broken them up to the
right lengths, all we needed was a lit
tie more watching, and then back to
the hospital and the big cupboard
Later on, our men told me they used
to watch the smoke that poured from
the hospital chimney all the time and
wonder where on earth we got the
wood.
We got the same kind of food in the
hospital that was served in the Other
barracks, and / would not have had
any more than / used to, except that
sometimes some Of the tWenty-six pa
tents could not eat their share, anc
then, of course, it was mine. One day
though, we all had extra rations.
Two Russian doctors came to visit
us each day, and once they were fool
ish enough, or kind enough, to ask il
we had received our rations-we haG
received them earlier than usual ant
they were finished at the time. Oh
course, / said no, so they ordered the
Russian in the kitchen to deliver
twenty-eight rations to us, which was
not quite three loaves of bread. VIZ
were that much ahead that day, but il
would not work when tried the trick
again.
One day a German doctor came tt
the hospital barracks He would not
touch anything while he was there
not even open the door. All of the
patients had little cards attached tt
their beds-charts of their condition
When the German wanted to see these
charts the Russian doctors had to hole
them for him.
I was having great time at The
hospital, wrecking the barracks mex
door each day for wood, along Will
Kate, and getting little more fooC
sometimes, and was always nice an(
warm. thought myself quite a pet
Compared to what / had been VI
against, it seemed like real comfort
But the more food got, the more
wanted. And it was food that brough
NO doxxyv1 oftovs oil
Across from us was a barracks ii
which there were English officers, ant
somehow it seemed to me that the.
must have had drag. Every once il
while / saw what looked like vege
tables and bags Of something that wa
a dead ringer for brown -four. So
told Slim, or Kate, as was calling hin
by then, and with him on guard,
sneaked out.
After two or three false starts, go
wire, and in through a window.
There I saw carrots And graham
flour!
/ took all could carry, to divide W
with Kate, and then started eating
so as not to waste anything. 1t wa
certainly some feast-the only thinI
besides mud bread and barley coffe
and shadow" soup that had to ca
in Germany Then / started back t,
the hospital. I got over their barbe'
wire all right, and Kate gave me tn
go-ahead for our entanglements, blu
just as was going over them sentr,
nabbed me. At first I thought Kat
had turned traitor, because we hal
had little argument short time be
fore.
But later on figured that he woull
not have done trick like that, AM
besides, he knew ! was bringing hin
something to eat. So the sentry mus
have sneaked up without Kate seein
him. Who got the carrots and gra
ham flour that was carrying do no
know. The sentries booted me all tn
way back to my old barracks.
CHAPTER XIII.