The daily worker., 1929-06-18

! august Ia.
II HAD some interesting expert
ences last night. About ten or
eleven, when we were already asleep
there was a terrible noise next door.
We simply could not sleep, so one
of our boys (the girls sleep up
stairs) knocked through the thin
wall and asked them to sing "pianis-
simo." A minute later came depu-
tation and expla: ID to US that a
group of Georgian foresters and
students, who were studying the
forests, came down the hills today
after long absence, and are hav-
ing a party to celebrate that occa-
sion. They are willing to "shut up"
| if we want them to, but suggest
that we join them, try some Geor-
gian wine and exchange songs with
them. After a long discussion we
had to accept the invitation and had
a really mad" Caucasian night.
They were splendid and beautiful
fellows. We went to bed about three
a. m. Fortunately there is rain to-
day and we have not got to march
early. The girls are preparing a
"civilized" breakfast, real butter,
new laid eggs, coffee, cheese and
Russian toasted bread.
Usholta, Aug. Is.
ALL our experiences were a para
II disc and our mountain climbing
a promenade, in comparison with
our yesterdays, or rather last
nights adventure. In spite of the
rain and foretold bad weather and
bad roads, we decided to move for
ward. All was well until dusk. The
mountains did not frighten us, as we
were already used to them. l must,
however, mention that this road is
impossible by cart or any wheel at
all. Our belongings were carried on
horseback. About half way to our
place of destination, it became sud-
denly very dark and in addition to
that one of the girls gave way It
was too late to turn back. We tried
to put her on horseback; but after
one or two miles she nearly tainted.
We had to take her off the horse,
make an improvised stretcher out of
a raincoat and carry her slowly up
hill for soma hours
Finally, we began to feel our
strength was coming to an end.
There was on one or two versts to
Chkmeri, the place we were going
to. But we decided to stop at the
first village we came across. The
team, instead of resting every eight
to ten minutes, had to stop every
three minutes and even more often.
Fortunately for us we heard the
barking of dogs. We strained our
eyesight and found something that
looked like a village. But it was
across noisy river and we coulo
see no bridge. My torch light serv-
ed its purpose and very poor
bridge-like structure was found. But
the bridge was so narrow (only two
logs) that Nina could not be car
ried across. Finally Sasha and 1
walked across and began shouting
and screaming, but no reply. It
seemed as though we were in dead
village.
At last we saw a light, and then
a young woman and a young man
appeared. We tried to explain to
them our position, but they could
understand no Russian. Luckily
they understood the word "excurr-
sanity" which made things palmer.
We then managed to make her un-
derstand that we wanted place
here to sleep and some boiled water
for tea prepared and also some
means by which we could bring
across our sick person. All our re.
quests were granted and in about ar
hour or so we were sitting round Q
fireplace warming our feet and dry.
ing our Clothes. l caught slight
chill and had to take aspirin. A huge