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"Why did you choose this lonely place way off from the Lodge?" she asked, slowly. "I wanted to be by myself," he replied, briefly. "You mean this is a sort of camp-out place?" "Carley, I call it my home," he replied, and there was a low, strong sweetness in his voice she had never heard before. That silenced her for a while.
One day while a party of hunters were on their journey to camp-out for the purpose of hunting, the party consisting of four, they came to a very large hollow tree where they noticed quite a number of great marks of claws on the bark of the tree. Supposing it to be the lodge of bears, they laid their bundles down and made ready for their game.
A camp-out on the shore of then unnamed Brammo Bay a holiday-making party and the result of the first day's exploration decided a revolutionary change in the lives of two seriously-minded persons. A year after, a lease of the best portion of the island having been obtained in the meanwhile, we came for good.
"Camp-out?" "Ay, beside the bear keep it company all night with a big fire to scare away the wolves. We'll put everything into the hut, block up the door, and kindle a huge fire outside that will burn nearly all night. So now, let's go about it at once."
After that, he set the cushions from the buggy, covering them with the rug, at the head of the couch, making a bolster, and, over that, the one she had had at her back. 'No down pillows or linen sheets allowed in a bush camp-out, my lady Biddy, he said with a laugh, a half timorous glance at his wife, but her answering smile reassured him.
"So'm I," agreed Flossie. This was something new to think about. They poked among the things in the balloon basket. There were funny objects, the uses of which they could only guess at, but there were also some crackers and sandwiches, as well as a bottle of milk, and some water. "Oh, we can have a regular camp-out!" laughed Flossie. "We'll make believe we're on a steamer."
Instead, she found him playing camp-out Indian, as he called it, with her best bed by way of wickiup, and the wickiup was provisioned lavishly and stickily from the resources of the closet where she kept her jams. Prudence and frugality demanded that Mrs. Brenton should remove her best clothes, before she essayed to administer justice at short range.
They had often been taught how to do it by Cousin Walter and Larry O'Dowd, and had made "playing at camps" their chief amusement in fine winter days. When, therefore, they found themselves compelled to "camp-out" from necessity, neither of them was at a loss how to proceed.
For instance, every student of God's handiwork should go up to Deer Park, camp-out at Five Lakes, and study the evidences of lava flows at the head of Bear Creek. Go to the Lake of the Woods and spend a week there, tracing the glacial movements that made Desolation Valley.
This was a perplexing state of things, for Roy had observed a wolf-track when out, and feared that nothing but the bones would be left in the morning. "What is to be done?" said Nelly, with that pretty air of utter helplessness which she was wont to assume when she felt that her brother was the proper person to decide. Roy pondered a few moments, and then said abruptly, "Camp-out, Nelly."
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