Camp Venture

ion of the

ermanent winter quarters, building a fire in front of the door and ma

nd extending with a heavy incline for twenty yards or so over the steep brow of the mountain. It was supported by strong hickory and oak posts and braces throughout its length. Any piece of t

of the Doctor, but two of the boys had volunteered to strip off that valuable p

nday, was to be spent in resting. But Little Tom, as he lay there in his broom straw bed a

trary orders for me to lie still, I'd go out this afternoon and get something better than salt meat for all of us to eat to-morrow. Why don't some of you other fellows go? If you can't get a

m Chenowith acted upon his wise suggestion. A few hours later they returned to Camp Venture bear

he hog may belong to the moonshiners, and if so, they'll present

at war with those people, you know, and in war you capture all you can

an that he was, had only to glance at it in order to pronounce

ssed a week as a prisoner in one of their huts once, and I never dreamed of such poverty or such indolence. So long as they have corn pones or anything else to distend their stomachs with, they simply will not exert themselves to get anything better. They won't even go out and shoot a rabbit if they'v

that you learned al

e time I went hunting and di

but te

he sort of poverty that those men and their families live in. I don't know whether they are poor because they lead criminal lives, or whether they lead criminal lives because they are poor. But I do know that that fellow told the truth the other night

pose, but I don't think that's the bottom trouble. They seem to be people born without energy. They like to sit still in the sunshine, unless there is a reven

ke in Harry, "how did y

fellows, you can have no idea of the abject poverty or the inconceivable indolence of these people. The little energy they have is expended in making illicit whiskey and sneaking it down the mountain without getting caught. Many of them have already served long terms in prison, but they regard that me

and after muttering: "That's anybody's wild hog,"