Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by American Museum of Natural History Library.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
160
Joy----
Tuesday, October 13-1914.
And full it blow!
(Fourteenth round)
Today was a day of misfortune. This was
to have been spoiled with such a number attached
to the date (13th) as badgered the same chance
just over the hill for a few moments. Then it hid
away among the collection of foggy sketches that covered
the study.
At two o'clock we put out the kite, just
as it left the arch a gust of wind seemed to offer
sticks against many children and mine had me
twenty minutes later, within an account of the
broken stick or the high wind. The kite climbed
and landed among some debris about 30 yards away.
The landed in a mess of broken sticks and other
miscellany. This misfortune is indeed discouraging.
While Jerome hurriedly in the kite a duck
came towards our point and I shot him with
my T.T. He put out in the electric but did
not reckon on the strength of the wind. Before we
got the duck we saw our danger and started back.
My hands became numb; I later found they were
frozen. The young craft was us and many
gust threw our Row R. By the merest chance
I was able to pull well enough to carry us
into the arches for almost half before the adde came
against me. Don't we more now to try anything so risky
again while we are at free. It does not pay.