The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-31

tue tuu bl ny l'u 'l lN'l'' '''' trail, or stumbled and fell against the sides. it would wake me up Ali ter one of these falls saw a light coming that 1 took tu b" a lantern. thot it was somebody searching for Us. tried to yell but could only gurgle Then the light began to jump up and down and sideways and towards me and back again. One second it would be right in front of me and the next second far off. tried to close my eyes but couldn't do it, so I would turn away from the light a minute and then look at it again. It would not be there for a second or two when l again turned toward it. but would suddenly flash up again in q moment or so. l had not noticed the noise of the wind particularly since l found Parker, but now l began to think it was sort of blowing words. l remember thinking of that saying l had heard somewhere about deep calling unto dcep,' and these words must have been from that language; but they were cruel and bitter and pitlless. The trees were cracking and snapping with the cold exactly like rifle shots, and in between cracks the wind would let out a long drawn deadly shriok that sounded like I've got you; I've got you: I've got you noW-W-w-W-W,
 "I went over to where Parker was, and after feeling around to get the lay of his body somehow managed to get my overcoat off of him. It was several sizes too big for him or | could not have done it. But it did me no good IL had frozen dry to some extent, but | could not get it on. could not hold it in position to star land in the sleeve.
 Just then l saw great big fat man in a silk hat coming towards me. He had one gold tooth. He be gan to dance backward and forward and in minute more there was a string of fat men in a row looking jusi alike and tapering in size from the big one down to q little fellow about the size of a gallon bucket They would dance up close to me and then slowly back off and come again. When | would turn away for a minute and then look again they Nould be gone, but would pop bac!, into sight in a second or two. Sudden ly the left legs dropped off of them and the blood gushing out from their thighs ran together and made little creek
 There were two elephants a short distance away that seemed to be tied tO a iutting rock at the top of a pre- cipice and hanging down so their feet just missed the ground. They were -crcaming and trumpeting and throw in" their trunks around like they were crazy with pain, and an animal with a head at both ends, looking about the size and shape of mink, was run ming over their bodies taking bit" out of them every second.
 All at once it popped into my head that these things could not be real for it was pitch dark and 1 could moi even pick out a tree at arms length
 An eagle about the size of biz kitchen range that had been CirCling around flew down at that minute and lighted on a tree that sprung up right iii front of me He hung onto a limb with one claw and was waiting 70 get me with the other claw and his brAk. noticed one claw was short and ttree prOnged fish hood with haIb~ Zigzagging in and out was fastened or where the claw was brokeQ off The other claws were about the size of pitchfOrk tines, but black and shiny. never turned away from him but walked right into that fellow, and as he was not there felt l had prov cd it was all imaginary
 "I remember it all just like was looking at it now, but it would take long time to tell about everything saw. What would have mortified me worse than anything, if l had seen T before | knew it was all imaginary, was an old man who looked exactly like the picture of Father Time, Sc}- the and WhiSkers and all, and an old hag without any teeth Whetting a butchers cleaver on a leather boot with a human leg prOtruding from the top The leg looked Ike it had been just pulled off, for it was still bleed ing and the torn flesh and tendonS were hanging down and the jagged end of the broken bone was sticking out an inch or two.
 "They were talking about me ana she would leer and grin and Snarl and then mnge towards me, but the old man would always catch her by her filthy. matted hair and pull her back.
 "E,Verything remained with me until dawn began to break and then grad ually grew dim; just like something