. The Saturday evening post. gully right neah, we lay still asdeath. An luck was with us. When night came twas faiahlypeaceful thah bouts and we reckoned wed bcttah move. Musthave made a couple o miles or so that night though we keptright close to the ground, not taking any moah chances than wecould help. And all next day we lay quiet mong some bushesright close to the rivah. I>ong toahrd evening it seemed like ouah men wuh gainingback, judgin by the noise. But we knew we wuh back of theenemy line. Things wuh pretty blue. That second night, keeping close to the rivah, we madebettah progress
. The Saturday evening post. gully right neah, we lay still asdeath. An luck was with us. When night came twas faiahlypeaceful thah bouts and we reckoned wed bcttah move. Musthave made a couple o miles or so that night though we keptright close to the ground, not taking any moah chances than wecould help. And all next day we lay quiet mong some bushesright close to the rivah. I>ong toahrd evening it seemed like ouah men wuh gainingback, judgin by the noise. But we knew we wuh back of theenemy line. Things wuh pretty blue. That second night, keeping close to the rivah, we madebettah progress; got along right well. But we did have acouple 6 narrow ones—a sentry, Ah recollect, took a whackat us. Good guessah, he was, too; just a trifle high on hiselevation. An once we wuh headed right fo a group of emasleep, when one of em coughed. That sho was fotunate. WELL, mawnin was comin again, and the lack of foodwas tellin on ouah strength. Just at the break o daywhen we thought wed drop from tiahrdncss, we came across. For twenty long years he had remembered W a little path from the rivah. It led to that cabin, pointed it out on the Louisiana shore. Fine place for a sco of guerillas to be stoppin, Ahthought. But mah awderly reckoned wed find friends in theold cabin if anyone was theah. So we crep close on yondahside an hid. Gentlemen, Ah cant express mah feelings of that mawninwhen out o that cabin came the sound of a mammys voiceand we heahd er say somethin about huh chilluns havin anevahlastin appetite fo pancakes. We could hahdly believeouah eahrs; it seemed too good to be true. But we wuh notime at all in gettin to that doahway. The mammy seemed to guess ouah story ami hahdly be-fore we knew it she had us down at the table with big stackso pancakes in front of us. Just pancakes —thats all she had— but such pancakes they wuh! Nevah befoah had I tastedtheir equal—and nevah since. We leahrned aftahwards that the mammy was AuntJemima; befoah the wah coo
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