Moonshiner's Clan - 13 JUL 62

Fri 13 JUL

CREPE SUZIE SENTINEL

MOUNTAIN MEN EAT THEIR WAY TO NEW RECORD

It all started when Ka CHEENA came up the trail to Base Camp with a replacement sleeping bag for Firebug Hater’s civilization trading post.  Partly to help morale and partly out of the goodness of his black heart, Lingo let loose with his ultra secret private formula for Mountain Crepe Suzies with Home Made Preserves! Casting up a cloud of sulfur smoke, Beard Jaw plunged in to the billows with arms and brains flailing, emerging a quarter hour later with a dripping pot of popping good. This he ladled out on the griddle to produce an almost never ending production line of Suzies for the circular chow line…trotting between the fire and the table with 4 quarts of his last Fall’s peaches, 1 jar of his peach butter, and 1 jar of his Strumberry Jam.  The orgy began calmly enough. Apparently, besides shovel-fulls of cinnamon and sugar, he also adds a shot of Novocain or opium or home brew because soon the wide-eyed giggling effects began to spread thru the whole clan. Buckskin got that glassy-eyed look on his mug, and with a silly grin, couldn’t stop asking for “More! More! More!!!” Even the staff of The Daily Mountain Man, furiously laboring over their whirling presses, even they paid graft to hire slaves to keep bringing them loads of Suzies smothered with the jarred goodies.  The eating feast kept up for a solid hour.  And here is the official tally, toted up on the outdoor green-board exactly as listed by our Statistician, Panther Track:

Firebug – 8	Quiet Deer - 3
Panther Track – 4	Possum - 3
Buck Skin – 17	Profeser - 7
Silver Striek – 7	Squrral – 6
Burning Sands - 3	Falcan – 5
Muscal Back – 4	Iron Jaw - 3
Lingo - 3	Dead Wood – 17
Ka-CHEE-na – 1

Grand Slam total: 92 Sewer-cover-Sized Suzies!                (Urp!)

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ESS – ARE

In an America educated by its Advertising Industry to consume immediately Stimulus and delayed Response is a lesson learned by fewer and fewer and needed by most.  It is very important as a Teaching Mechanism;  as a Learning Process.  For Instance, Food.  At home, the Stimulus is child hunger. The Response is mother preparing and giving food. If the mother feeds the child right away, the child accepts the food without thought and no character development takes place.  However in Camp, when the child has to prepare his own food, he appreciates its preparation more, especially afte a long hike.  On the other hand, if the Response is stretched out over too long a period of time – as in Europe during the War, or in Forced Survival Hike with no food – the Spirit may be broken or warped. A person’s character is best developed when the Response-Reward is delayed almost to the breaking point before getting that reward. This type of stretching of the self forces growth of character, does not break the sprit, and matures the child. 

     S-- >R   Little or no character growth.

     S--------------- X X X X ----- >   Spirit Broken

     S------------- > R  Solid Character Development!

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YELLOW WINGED SPARROW eggs finally hatched in the Medicine Lodge!! Falcon first to discover the babies, therefore he is Papa (with Mama Bird’s approval.)  One more egg out of the three to go. Buckskin and Panther Track to be camp Zoologists.

- 30 –

Firebug – 8

Quiet Deer - 3