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They knew as well as he that they were returning to the waterhole. As the campers again sat down to their supper Isobel paused with the coffeepot upraised. "Genevieve," she inquired, "did you put cream on the list?" "Why, no, my dear. It did not occur to me." "Nor may it to Yuki. He will be sure to send eggs and butter, but unless he thinks to save tonight's cream I'll run and tell Kid."
It seems that there are some bungalows or cabins in it that can be hired out to campers. Now if " "Daddy, I've guessed it!" cried Grace, jumping up and putting her arms about his neck. "You're going to let us go up there to a winter camp. Aren't you?" "I was thinking of it," he confessed. "It seems to me to be a fine chance for you to get all the fresh air you want.
She said she was tired of hearing so much about the Adirondacks! She was coming this time to see for herself. You needn't have the least fear about having her along! She's as good a traveller as I am, every bit; I've had her in training at it for thirty years, and I tell her, old as we are, we are better campers than most of the young people." "That's so, Mr.
And long after the Second Garrote had become but a memory, the two octogenarians lived on in their little cabin, Chaffee seeking with primitive pick, shovel, and pan the more and more elusive gold, and Chamberlain contributing to the common purse by cultivating a small "ranch," the best crop of which was the campers who came to chat of bygone days with "the original of Tennessee's Partner."
Back in the cavelike hollow, under the rocks, the boys found a big, dry log, which other campers had put there for a seat. They rolled it forward toward the fire. Some flat stones were soon heated for the girls to put their feet on, and, warmed and rested, they began to investigate the contents of the baskets. "Oh, Rob!" groaned Lloyd. "What a lunch you did pick up for a wintah day!
The reader may be disappointed that Fred Ripley was not immediately punished for his meanness to the young campers, but it may be remarked in passing that fellows of Ripley's kind are always caught up with and punished sooner or later. Boys filed in from one coatroom, girls from another, at the stroke of nine on the following Monday morning.
Pretty soon Winton said very low, "They're a couple of millionaire campers young fellows. Their people are staying near Leeds and those fellows have got a tent right across there in the woods near the shore. They're having the time of their lives with an up-to-date oil stove and a couple of fireless cookers and some thermos bottles and things.
Going forward to enquire what was wanted, a man said gruffly, thrusting a piece of paper into my hand. "A notice from the chief of police." "For what?" I inquired. "For you, to vacate these premises without delay." "Indeed! Are they to open a street? Will the other campers about here move also?" I asked. "I don't know. My orders are that you shall move immediately.
As we drew out into the cold magnificence of Lake Superior, the receding woody shores were occasionally spotted with picnickers or campers, who rushed down the beach in various deshabille, waving towels, handkerchiefs, or garments. We were as friendly. The human race seemed a jolly bunch, and the world a fine, pleasant, open-air affair 'some world, in fact.
But at that time the European nations who held possessions on the Pacific coast were very suspicious of the Americans, and possibly President Jefferson did not like to risk rousing their animosity. The rain that now deluged the unhappy campers was so incessant that they might well have thought that people should be web-footed to live in such a watery region.
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