Roy Blakeley's roundabout hikeFitzhugh, Percy Keese
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Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike
Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Adventure stories; Boy Scouts of America -- Juvenile fiction; Hiking -- Juvenile fiction
I guess you’re in a hurry for the next day to come, but anyway you’ll
have to wait till after we’ve had our lunch because we were good and
hungry. Mostly I have eats come between the chapters so as you won’t be
interrupted. Oh boy, the things that happen between the chapters are
even more than the things that happen in the chapters. Between chapters
we have ice cream cones and everything, but they’re not a part of the
story.
It was nice and dim down there in the chasm. We couldn’t go down the
side, so we went to the end where it sloped down sort of and we went in
the way the brook does--I mean the way it comes out. Only then there
wasn’t any brook. It was all rocks in the chasm. I guess that chasm is
about a half a mile long. Where it’s widest there is grass growing but
everywhere else there are rocks. When there’s any water in there it kind
of wriggles in and out among the rocks.
Just like I thought, there was water in the Giant’s Basin. That’s a deep
pool made by rocks. It was full of killies, just like I knew it would
be. Because when the brook dried up the fish would have to go where
there was water. They were all crowded in it and we could scoop them up
in our hands--jiminies it was easy. We found an old tin dipper that I
guess used to be used to drink out of and we hammered it flat with a
stone so it was kind of like a frying-pan. Then we started a fire and I
fried killies and they were good. Sandy kept cleaning them with his
knife while I kept frying them and Dub kept getting wood for the fire. I
bet you can guess what Pee-wee was doing--honest that kid could cause a
shortage in the Atlantic Ocean. You have to eat a lot of killies but
that’s easy.
Afterward I took a long stick and felt around on the bottom of the pool.
There were other places like that pool, only not so big. There were lots
of crevices between rocks too. All of a sudden I began to think we did
stand a pretty good chance of finding that lost will. Because I’ll tell
you why. If the dispatch container fell out of the old man’s pocket into
the water it would have been carried along and most likely get wedged in
somewhere between rocks. Or else it might get into one of those pools. I
didn’t bother my head thinking how the wallet or whatever you call it,
got out of the old man’s pocket because I believed it fell out before
his coat was taken off. And I didn’t worry about how his coat happened
to be off, either.
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