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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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22 was making away with my breakfast. I repelled the boarder; then I got out a cookie, broke off a piece, and put it down in the moonlight where I could watch it. Presently the marauder came hitching along, and carried it away. So I gave him another piece, and he carried it away; and so on until I finally went to sleep— —if I remember rightly, with about half of the cookie in my fingers, in which event he must have taken liberties with me, for it was not there in the morning. That was a fine night, there on the south side of the stack. I had pulled down enough alfafa to make a soft bed, and rolled up in my blanket on this. The night was perfect; the moon almost full and very brilliant; the constellations Scorpio and Sagittarius, which I like more than all the rest, showed clearly in spite of the bright moon. It was great; the beautiful night, the comfortable bed, the wholesome fatigue, the profound sense of physical well-being, the companionable mousie, all. I have previously mentioned my mosquito hood, but only incidentally, and it certainly deserves a few words, since it is indispensable to one’s comfort on a trip of this character. It is a contrivance of three flexible steel hoops, sewed parallel to each other four inches apart, on the inside of a cylindrical bobbinet hood with a closed top, sixteen inches in diameter and two feet “high.” The steel is so flexible that the whole may be folded in small compass and put in a pocket. Getting into this affair and tucking the skirts into the top
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Rights
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