Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

thought five could handle him, but when, on investigating, we found out that his two elder brothers were with him, we followed out the old, old maxims of the fainthearted – “Discretion is the better part of the valor” and “He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day” and went home.

But to one more incident needed to close this chapter, which is a chronology of our defeats up to the time when things began to go our way.

This occurred on the following evening.  Day, Bill, Smith and I, met after supper and I proceeded to the building.  We did an awfully undiplomatic thing on arriving.  No one was there and we walked across