The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-01-22

wandered four days III the Woods' anu oh
day. We went on until dark and
made a fire. smoked two cigarettes
while we rested; so did Kloor. Hin
ton did not smoke.
"We did not eat that day; We car
ried the pigeons until the next day.
There was some snow on the ground,
80 we got lot of pine brush to lie
on and l picked a lot of rotten wood
with my penknife. We had no fire
arms-only the knife and the box or
matches.
Hinton went on q little TO find n
stream. While he was gone he laid
| off his flying suit to make better head
way and he could not find it on his
way back.
THAT night / slept next to Hinton.
He was next to the fire. / was on the
| outside. Kloor lay off to one side ana
slept. We got on fine together in the
forest. Hinton and I didn't sleep.
We got up at daylight.
They Eat First Pigeon.
1--WE ate a pigeon that morning, De-
cember Is. We cleaned a pigeon and
cooked It. We divided ii in three
parts. couple of mOuthfuls apiece.
We drank water out of moose tracks
and holes in the ground. That is
what probably made me sick the next
day. We started off, l carrying my
grip.
1--WE came to a creek that day (the
Indians call this stream the Nesco-
haga). Hinton was leading and kept
moving too far to the west.
II proposed to him to go southeast
: In 80 minutes we got to the creek
which was not frozen over, so we had
to follow the bank. We camped again
in good shape. /, for one, was moi
very hungry, but we were cold wher
we stopped walking.
1--WE had made fire and rested al
, noon, but we did not eat in order tt
conserve food. We argued abou
where we were. / figured Ii some
where in the woods in Canada, bu
wasn't sure.
How They Were CARRIED.
"At that time / was still in m!
flying suit. Hinton in uniform ant
Kloor in uniform and flying suit. W.
all wore flying boots. My grip KEEP
getting foul Of trees, so l threw
. away at ten o'clock, but took care q
nut 1t in a tree. Before that l go
. nv good English shoes out of the gril
and put them on and threw away m
fiying boots, which were pretty nea
gone.
az did not make more than fou
. miles the first day nor more than se'
, en- or eight the second day. Our nigh
camp was on the creek. We did nc
, eat. During the day we all nibble
, a bit of a kind of moss we found grow
ing around.
! ave we're not cheerful. We bega
: TO dread that this dog barking PROF.
) osition was kind of phoney. Ther
were so many noises. i figure now
e was a wolf barking. We saw lot
4 wolf tracks.
t Youngest Flyer Prays.
{ "Kloor told us he had been prayin
NOT out loud, but just to himsel
I'm not much on religion; / didn
pray. No more than made a prop
s sition they should dine off me.
Hinton and 1 discussed our cour'
while Kloor was praying. We had
I admit we were in q pretty serious ia
and felt pretty blue. But when
g omit we had bunch that the thil
q day was going to be lucky.
o 1--WE ate the second pigeon and kill'
the other one the morning of the thi
day-December 16. KlOor put I'll
d dead pigeon in his pocket. We did tn
o to do away with the cage.
re During the night Hinton and Klo
o got their feet in the fire. Now the
~ fiying shoes were burned and they HI
,e TO throw them away and walk in III
form boots. My shoes were In {
,e best shape.
to Hikers Growing Weak.
lie ave were all growing weak and 4
,e a lot in holes and over trees. Hint
D. was very weak. felt like vomitil
Hinton was nauseated, his stoma
he was very bad, but our heads were
TX clear as they are right now.
or "If we had had definite object
M could have gone fifty or hundr
ne miles without so much distress.
n saw so much of the same sort
gs woods that 1t appeared we were
he going anywhere. But we were
going in circles because we WI
steered by the compass zigzaggl
on through the wood. That count
ne against US.