GRUMPY BEAR GAZETTE
**After moonset, before
blue-up time, coyotes across the valley, up the Camel Humps, gave a
counterpoint concert.
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MORNING SCENE
Sun just rising to burn off the dew
glistening on new burnt-red fir-tips. Three Tom Hawks flappin & sqawkin
around with 3 girlfriends (From Colorado Women’s College?) Silver-Streak Freeman bending over the
campfire stirring and cooking his oatmeal breakfast. Pebbles on the ROCK (Oh,
haven’t you heard? Former Log-roller Morrow got a better Medicine Name last
night.) is licking his plate clean (better to have the energy food in your than
in the suds) while his brother Flying knife is washing pots: “Later this summer
we’re going down South to swim in the Gulf Stream Waters...Gulf Stream
Waters? Hey, that’s our song!” So
everyone bursts out singing manfully while continuing the work.
This land is your land, this land is
my land
From the California New York
Island
From the Redwood Forests, to the Gulf
Stream waters
Singin, this land was made for you
and me..........
Bald Iggle Wenholz,
sharpening Ivan The Terrible Axe...singing.
Magpie Bowman and Muscle Back improving the fireplace at their
lean-to...singing. Puffing-Ironsides
Grainger and Panther-Track Schware cutting kindling for fire practice...singing. The good Life.
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ESSAY FROM YESTERDAY’S
PHILOSPHICAL DISASTER
What Does It Mean To Be A Moral Man?
I thought hard about this. It seems to me
that a Moral Mountain Man is the one who doesn’t harm another man’s property or
hard labor even if no one is there to see you do it. When you take away Beauty, Money, Happiness
or Life, you not only take from the person it belongs to, but from your own
personality. When you poke fun at Beauty or something that is dear to someone
else, you not only hurt the other person, but you make yourself look
small. And you make an enemy for
yourself. Remember, the best way to get
rid of an enemy is to maek him a friend.
Take time out to teach him with love and understanding. When you are
moral, whether others appreciate you or not, you are a good man to yourself
and you can hold your head high with anybody in the world.
Chattering
Magpie
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MAXIMUM SURVIVAL PACK: Minimum Survival Pack, plus: Food, Jacket,
morale book, and flashlight rolled inside of sleeping bag tired into a Hot
Torpedo Roll; then tied onto pack-frame. Axe and frying pan on outside of pack.
Reported by
Pebbles and
Panther
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Beginning to integrate
all our axe, knife, fire, food, shelter and sanitation Reasoning &
Technique into a smoothe running Mt Man Camp!
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Written Note from
Pebbles: “Lingo, I think I better not have a medason name because Magpie and
Musles keep calling me Scotty.”
So the two named
culprits stood in front of Lt. Beerbottle, saluted and repeated 25 times, “Sir,
I must not forget the proper name of Pebbles-On-The-Rock.”
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“If you’re going to
bother to do a thing at all, you might as well bother to do it well’ and if you
bother to do it well, you might as well bother to do it PERFECTLY!” Ben
Franklin
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