The Pulaskian., 1919-07-18

] his fish at the beginning. but caught fso many that he did not have time to keep count by reason of being so busy batting up He hooked" a large one but was unable to land, he said, on account of it's size. Later on. Beans caught the same fish" which proved to be an old rubber boot. Beans lad excellent success in his "fishing." He caught q large" one, so large that 1 Il Beans pocket had been a shade" smaller it would not have held the fish. The creek being shallow at the
 camp Beans beat" for deep water" but was soon back at camp When asked the reason of his quick return, ne said that he had been sitting on an old black log about three feet in diameter, and had just loaded up his boiler" with three twists of "Cotton Boll' tobacco, and had begun to enjoy his smoke when the log began to move. Beans thought that the log was not lying securely on the bank and might take a notion to roll into the creek and get his blue serge" suit toveralls) damp, so he removed him. self from said log Just as he did so, the log "crawled" in the creek. The log was nothing more than one of the small Maumelle moccasin snakes About that time we heard a noise in the woods. Beans saw service" in the German-Ameriean war, and is very heroic, so investigated the quickest and shortest route to the camp" He came across Perch, who was in quite rush" himself. Upon inquiry, by Beans, of his hurry, he said that he had gotten sleepy and had laid down upon the creek bank for a siesta. but about the time that he had got stretched out" he heard noise some what similar to an aeroplane, and was gazing" skyward in an effort to spot the machine, when he felt some thing crawling into his pocket. At about the same time he felt rifle ball penetrate his clothing. He arose quicker than he thought was possible, and was endeavoring to place the di- rectiOn of the one who had "shot at him. When he placed his hands in his packet after his trusty automatic he got "shot" about a dozen times on each hand-by yellow-jackets. Perch thought then it was about time that he moved elsewhere. In his hurry to leave the yellow-jackets he ran against gum tree six foot through. The tree now looks as if it had been struck by lightning. Perch said that it probably had, as he was certainly lighting up his fit when he hit the tree When he ran into Beans he was certainly .go- ing some" Beans said if Perch could have kept up the rate of speed he was going when they had the collision, for three minutes and quart" that Perch would have been down about Ar genta, twenty-six miles away
 Beans said that he never came nearer starving that he did while on Big Maumelle after the fish, He said that he was feeling bad' and had no appetite whatever and had only eaten small dinner-thirty-si half-pound perch fish, not Perch Lockert, two loaves bread, six pounds chocolate cake, twelve slices of pie, a gallon of pickles, two pounds of chicken (feathered) and topped off with three gallons of "bootleg' coffee. Thirty minutes afterward ice cream was manufactured and after Beans had eaten three plate fulls, and while no one was looking, he "copped' the whole freezer. and made off with it.
 He was found eighty minutes after
 wards Ticking" out the bottom of the freezer He had already swallow cd the inside machinery" of the freezer could have been found. Beans says that he will soon leave the Steps and get into the "DevilDogs." or the "Khaki- ki-Stretchers" where he can ges all the beans and beef that he de- sires. when doing "The Last Long Mile" H. l.. Garner
 June 2, 1919.
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