The Frontier Kid

The Autobiography of Glenn J. Smith

Another excerpt was Rainey and I, when we were about 13 or 14, decided to camp out. So we went in back of Cub Lake, we had to swim across the lake to get there. We took some field corn from a farmer's field to eat. That's all we had to eat was field corn. Boy, did we get sick. We hardly made it home. Until we threw up… After we threw up, we felt a lot better. That was kind-of an exasperating camp out. Also, Rainey and I decided to go to a sugar mill, which was on a farmer's land about two miles from his house, cross lots… So, we started out one Saturday morning, and caught two small flying squirrels on the way to the sugar shack. So, we took our hats off and put em under our hats and put stones around the edge so they couldn't get out and went on the sugar shack. We got about a quart of maple syrup and drank it all. (laughs…) And, brother did we ever get sick. We threw that up, too. But when we got back to our hats, to take the flying squirrels home, we found that they had chewed holes in the hats and got out. So that was a little bit for nothing. (These excerpts will have to be put in their rightful places, but I thought I'd better get them in before I forgot about them.)

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