It was years later when I ceased to have recurrences of those cramps.
In the light of what I heard later, I blame Willie for two things—first for trying to show his superior traveling [traveling] ability and second for leaving me. The latter is never done when two men are out under those conditions—unless there is something wrong.
Suffice it to say—cramps or no cramps, we took the supplies through to Pine Lake. A nights sleep and a couple of shots of painkiller in my tea- patched me up more or less. The trail was by no means perfect, but being in timbered
