February, 1918 
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drops pattered down. Once I went to 
sleep—and dreamed of somebody finding a 
gentleman’s skeleton in a hollow tree. 
The first thihg 1 saw when day broke 
was a spruce-hen on a bush out in the front 
yard of my residence. She sat there rub¬ 
bering at me. I clipped her head off with 
a bullet, plucked her dry, partially roasted 
her over a “wet” fire and ate her, pin¬ 
feathers and all. 
Then, by means of the broken twigs, I 
worked my way slowly back to where I 
had got into the first argument with my 
compass. I found the paper my lunch had 
been in and lunched again on seven cYumbs 
that were left. Next I re-consulted my 
compass, but it still maintained it was 
right. In reply to it I says: 
“All right then, you brazen-faced fizzle! 
You’re a liar and the truth ain’t in you! 
I know that well enough and yet I’ve had 
my way and now I’m gonna give you 
yours 1 If you think you know where the 
camp is, lead me to it!” 
With that I traveled northeast—by com¬ 
pass. If cock-sure compass was right I 
would hit that old tote-road either east 
or west of the camp, but I didn’t hit it 
at all—or if I did, I didn’t see it—perhaps 
I had crossed it without noticing! Any¬ 
how I was out of the burnt land. Well, if 
the compass was right I should, within a 
few weeks or months, splash into Hudson 
Bay or meet up with an Eskimo!—so I 
kept on. At four o’clock I hadn't got any¬ 
where in particular as far as I could no¬ 
tice, so I stopped going and collected fire¬ 
wood until dark and built up a roaring 
fire. Then I dined on a drink of water 
from a nearby brook. I made up my mind 
that about 7 P. M. I would begin to shoot 
my ammunition away in distress signals— 
Daye should be back by then. 
As I sat there before the blaze with my 
head in my hands I heard a crackle in the 
brush off to my right! “Deer meat!” 
thinks I, reaching for my rifle. 
But instead of a deer Old Dave walked 
into the light! His mouth was hanging 
open and astonishment was writ in big 
letters all over his face. Then he gasps: 
“Gawdsakes, what are you doin’ here?” 
“I’ll ask you the same question,” says I 
with a sheepish grin; “what are you doin’ 
so far away from camp?” 
“Far away from camp !” gurgles Dave; 
“there’s our camp jest a step thru the 
trees! I’m jest gettin’ back and when I 
seen this fire from the tote-road, I—” 
Dave stopped and began to chuckle. 
“Newt,” says he, “you’re lost!” 
“Npt now, I ain’t,” says I very cheerful 
as I arose and followed him a few steps 
to camp. Dave was still chuckling as he 
groped around for the candle. Presently 
he drawled, “Say, Newt, ain’t a compass 
a damnoosants ?” 
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