Eloquent Orator's Clan - 28/29 JUL 62

Sat-Sun 28/29 JUL 62

The F R E E L O A D E R S   F O R U M

BEFORE THE FEASTING-STORM

Saturday: Straightened up Base Camp. Removed bodies, whiskey jugs and chaw terbaccer plugs. Went thru clothes washing drill. After blue jeans, shorts and sox washed, each man, wearing web-belt, knife and hat, stepped into suds pan, scrubbed and rinsed with buckets of cold water.  Castanet teeth. Formed up Full Field Packs for overnight hike.  White Belt Point-Man; Timber and Trapper Scouts. Two exhaustion collapses: Cut Finger and Pebble. Set up Line camp at Akropolis Hill.  Yarning: Jim Bridge in the buffalo during blizzard and Charlie burning the hypo-needle doctor. Coyotes in the distance. Thick dew: went surfboarding in our sleeping bags.

Sunday: Hiked Vallies of Truth and Goodness to Rebuild rock flower cairns.  Held military funeral for the unknown soldier found in the road. Breakfast of adhesive scrapings in the pan and titanic aced.  Push back up to Base Camp ahead of the firs wave of parental attackers.

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Like the Airline Pilot sez over the P.A. System before landing, “Ladies and gents, youse is about to begin da mostest dangerust part of yer journey – duh trip from duh airport to yer hotel!”  And so this was the most dangerous part of our week: Surviving the presence of untrained guests in camp. All kinds of tummy-aching goodies. Cigarette butts in the sterilized water. Rocks sailing down from Hawk Cliff. Gay, delightful running downhill.

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My mooch record by Shivering Tall Timber

     2 Hot Dogs (2 with Bun)

     1 hamburger teak and bun (Baba Yaga’s cow hiking by)

     3 pieces of chicken (not counting that south end of 
       north bound bit)

     Fruit juice from 4 family encampments; 1 lemonade(I think)

     Potatoe chips (Who keeps an accurate count of these!)

     1 ½ stacks crackers and peanut butter

     Many ginger snaps

     Gum

     Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Sweet Corn

     Martini

Went to bed early for some reason *STT

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-       Two Major Hikes up Hawk Cliff

-       Duet Bugle concert impresses City folk

-       Imp (Impy) crawled into camp; identified, named.

-       173 kinds of cookies and brownies

-       12 kinds of pickles

-       Trapper’s Dad out-hikes Mt-Men to Crest

-       Is that a folding chair next to that lovely log?

-       “Why not that you do mention it, Ma’m yes, I am an Orphan, and, No I haven’t had a bit to eat today. “

-       “Alright, rough and tough Mountain Men! Let’s show the folks how we talk rough and tough Mt-Man language.  Ready now? Ok, now one, Two, Three:  OY VEY!!

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Camp Rabbitt (rabitt ?) named “Hassenpfeffer”

Dry Milk Powder: Kosoisuzkowy Koprowych (Cozy-Us Cow-y Copper Witch)

URGENT – WHITE BELT BROUGHT TO DENVER FOR OBSERVTION OF SEVERE ABDOMINAL PAINS. DOCTORS LOEFFLER AND LARIMER, VISITING CAMP, OBSERVE NO APPENDIX REACTION.