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Show YOUNG HUNTER SPENDS NIGHT IN WILLOW TREE Memphla Youth It Loit In Mlitltilppl Cane Dottomi and Haa a Terrifying Terrify-ing Time. .Memplil Tenn l.ot for twenty-four twenty-four hours In a bleak Mississippi canobreak, and for over twelve hour In u tree seeking safety from numerous numer-ous wild beasts which besieged him, llert Ijincniter. of Memphis, hnd an experleuce which ho is not likely to forget !.aniatcr, together with n companion, compan-ion, Hilly Slim, loiently returned from what Is roluinonly termed a "pleasuru outing trip" However, thoy do not refer to their escapmla In thn mnio happy phrasing, particularly Uincnter who was mado n victim hrcautu of his Ignnrantu of woodcraft wood-craft Ho Is exhibiting to friends myriads of inoiiil(u bite, and em phntlcnlly dlsioitruglng hunting In the land nmdo famous by I'roslitynt Itiumevelt u few years ngo l.iitunttir und Shea nought the Mississippi ranebrake for several daya pliatnro in hunting and fishing, unit lucldi mally lo recuperaln from thn stern realities of hutlues Thoy went with nil thu necessary paraphernalia, und heiaute of Iho wlldnesa and woollne i of iho itglun. cn-rli'd-nliinR lu addition a uldu L'al..;i wau pltl'.lix! they were fairly siiccesaful hunting and llthlng, and everything wont nliiug siniHith until the fourth day rolled around und lompletely altered all their plans It wns Into In Urn iiflirnoon of that day when Hurt Mummer diildod to go Mltilrril hunting Accompanied by hi guide. IjincHHer walked about llireo mllek from Hie cunip. when the guide left lilm. nfter admonishing him to kwi close to a largo Inko In tho vicinity, which hud been llxeil U)n by all u u giHid lumluurk I'm ,mie time the umliltlau nlm rum obeyeil Instruction, but btlug lieckuned on by good luck, nnd bag glug many squirrels, lie went further from the lake than he Intended When ho started lo return Ihe shades of iilglil o ' beginning to thicken, nnd lie waa nit enllrily sure of his way Ihe In t of the perverse 1 hanged hi course and he begun walking In a elide 'I hi maneuver he continued until he cume to u complutv realltu Hon of the situation To be list In a Mississippi bottom nfter nightfall Is enough to glvo thu most stout hearted rigors I tears there are and planty of catamount! In Ibis territory, anil everyone no-qualnted no-qualnted with the latter knows lilm to be n most formldahlo feline, par-tlcularly par-tlcularly nfter dark v The lost man took to a treo. 1 In confesses that he heard soma blond; curdling scream that Immediately brought Ids decision to climb to 11 head Into nn old willow treu ha quickly climbed nnd tbeie spent thi night In considerable irtpldntlot. Tu, The Loit Man Took to a Tree. mill 10 Jils tirrors, 11 terrific thunder-t'oi thunder-t'oi in rami up during the night, anil the wayfarer was exposed to Its full force i-inuwur was found tho next day by n negro on n mule, who was ona of n party of thirty engaged In tho search for the missing hunter. Tho finder of the lout man wns liberally rewarded |