The Black out
... ax, $40, some flint and steel. He saved his money from selling magazine subscriptions. Sam ran away to the Catskill Mountain wilderness, and had to make a life of his own. Sam stays in a hemlock tree which is 6 feet in diameter and many people pass and don’t know .He has a bed made of deer skin, keeps the date by counting the notches on an aspen pole, and his lamp is powered by deer fat poured into a turtle shell with a strip of hi “city” trousers as a wick. Now that’s creative and smart, I couldn’t think like that if I tried. This is his 8th month that he’s been living in the wild since he ran away. He eats acorn pancakes and turtle soup, and keeps his supplies in wooden pockets in the tree. He got to Catskill Mountain by a train and caching rides, he was in the car with a truck driver when he saw the woods and said “ this is as far as I am going” he also said this is the kind of forest he always dreamed to run away to. One day in the summer Sam was taking a bath in the spring, cold water he met Jessie Coon James the bandit of the Gribley farm. He jump right in the water with Sam, the one thing you don’t know is Jessie is not a man it is a raccoon that Sam is acting like is a man. One day Sam got a friend who is a hawk. He named him Frightful. One day as Sam’s pet spun up in the air looking at a Falcon a boy about his age came along and said I saw that, he also ask if he was a wild boy, Sam said no but was so amazed that he saw a human that it seemed like he really didn’t care. By April he was no longer living in his...