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we would depend largely on meat and had not provided 

 a sufficiency of other food. As a result we found that 

 after the third day rations were becoming very short. 



We camped that night at a well in a sandy river 

 bottom about ten miles beyond Ude, the halfway point 

 on the trip to Urga. It had been a bad day, with a bit- 

 terly cold wind which drove the dust and tiny pebbles 

 against our faces like a continual storm of hail. As 

 soon as the cars had stopped every one of us set to work 

 with soap and water before anything had been done 

 toward making camp. Our one desire was to remove 

 a part of the dirt which had sifted into our eyes, hair, 

 mouths, and ears. In half an hour we looked more 

 brightly upon the world and began to wonder what 

 we would have for dinner. It was a discussion which 

 could not be carried on for very long since the bread 

 was almost gone and only macaroni remained. Just 

 then a demoiselle crane alighted beside the well not 

 forty yards away. "There's our dinner," Charles 

 shouted, "shoot it." 



Two minutes later I was stripping off the feathers, 

 and in less than five minutes it was sizzling in the pan. 

 That was a bit too much for Mrs. Mac, hungry as 

 she was. "Just think," she said, "that bird was walk- 

 ing about here not ten minutes ago and now it's on my 

 plate. It hasn't stopped wigghng yet. I can't eat it!" 



Poor girl, she went to bed himgry, and in the night 

 waked to find her face terribly swoUen from wind and 

 sunburn. She was certain that she was about to die, 

 but decided, like the "good sport" she is, to die alone 



