Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners our trip was to last at least 30 days maybe 40 we would not see any other human being nor find any place to replenish our supplies till we got back to civilization with our pack horses a already overloaded our daily ration of refreshments was reduced to the minimum and all hanis hands duly notified of how homr much they could eat without bidding for trouble but we were all kids otherwise there would be no story to relate we were jut just at the age when we figured that what little we know count at the very fir first s t camp one of our hearty appetites suggested well eat the best first and then well have the best all the time another festive mf member aber admonished us not to worry but to live our days as thley they come and cross the bridges when we reach them that doctrine found ready acceptance cep tance being ravenously hungry from long days in the heat and the wind we ate always with vigorous relish we lived each daywitt day with a gusto and lost no energy in worrying that is no one arranged to give any appointed time to the worrying business till we had been in the wilderness somewhat more than two weeks at which time it began to filter into our awareness that some of our most toothsome lines of chuck I 1 was completely exhausted we began a mild system of rationing tio ning but after five days more necessity forced the limits of that ration to terrifying restrictions we had less flour than was in the bin of the widow of Zere phath when elijah came to board with her and we had about enough bacon to grease the dutch oven half a dozen times we ate a porcupine and called it good but it I 1 hesitate to tell all the tricks to which we resorted before we came straggling back to the haunts of men but we looked like the crew of the ancient mariner especially like those of the crew who survive continued on page 12 the old settler continued from page 1 I 1 I 1 needless to relate that I 1 starve quite to death but that I 1 came within a gnats heel of it is about all that makes that trip still of any value if it had not been for the enlightenment elligh I 1 got on I 1 that trip I 1 would have burned up IMY my supply of gasoline and been I 1 now with my T model way back down the road 1 the fitness of a man to suey survive ke is proved by his wisdom a an self control to sacrifice fic e the pr it for the future if he sacrifices the f future for the present it is but a matter of time till he finds himself without any future at all 1 in the vigor of f youth he may irmagine imagine his supply is able so he eats it up drinks it up smokes it up and dissipates it in every extravagant form of foolish indulgence when he discovers it is gone it is too late he may begin to eat porcupines and may go pensively into the regretting lusi business and life presents a scene empty and desolate like the great masses of drift on a big stream there is an endless lets multitude of men and women who in their riotous yesterdays imenes have burned up the preci precious Z u merits which were intended inte aed t toj otal ply the vital needs of their today and theres mighty little that can can be done about it ALBERT R LYMAN |