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Show SUFFERJNG FROM THIRST. illngH Rcucrlnori y a 'Wyoming Sinn with nn Kxporlnnre. No one. can conceive the tortures of n person v,ho suffers from real thirst-A thirst-A Wyoming man who was lost on the plains describes his sensations in a ivid mauner. It was before noon when lie began his journey over a desert strip, r.nd before- night his horse had fallen dead and he had drained his canteen. Then he laid down and tried to sleep, but. he soon awoke in the agonies of thirst. "I couldn't cry out," he said, "because my tongue was numb and useless from the paJn. When morning canio I just, beheld the. outlines of a wagon In the distance. With a superhuman super-human effort I gave a shriek and then I knew no more. When I regained consciousness I was on a bunch of hay near a lire, and two or three men weio looking at me. I learned later-that my scream had been heard by u party nf prospectors, who were skirting the desert in order to make a short cut to the Montana cattle tirnil, and that at first they thought it was some wild nnitnuJ. hut one of the party insisted on a search, ns he had heard a man make just such a noise before he died of thirst in the Mojnve desert. It was weeks before T recovered completely, and 1 haven't been more tJinu u mile nwuy from wuter, aud plenty of 1L, since." |