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Updated: June 12, 2025
I really can do no end of things, you know, if you'll try me. I've done some camping-out, and can cook as well as the next man." The two women made a movement of smiling remonstrance, half coquettish, and half superior, until Mrs. Bradley, becoming conscious of her bare arms and the stranger's wandering eyes, colored faintly, and said with more decision: "Certainly not. You'd only be in the way.
But why compare them? There is no need to do so. Each is supreme in its own right; different yet compelling, unlike yet equally engaging. Then there are the ineffable climate of summer, the sunrises, the sunsets, the Indians, the flowers, the sweet-singing birds, the rowing, in winter the snow-shoeing, the camping-out, and, alas! I must say it the hunting.
"Of course it's a bit rough and all that," Clay would say, "but they have only to tell us what they want changed and we can have it ready for them in an hour." "Oh, my sisters are all right," Langham would reassure him; "they'll think it's fine. It will be like camping-out to them, or a picnic. They'll understand."
Any number of young men were eager to enlist for a brief camping-out expedition, and small private companies were formed, composed about half-and-half of Union and Confederate men, as it turned out later. Missouri, meantime, had allied herself with the South, and Samuel Clemens, on his arrival in Hannibal, decided that, like Lee, he would go with his State.
One was so bright that it let fall a slender golden track of light on the river. Mary Beck thought that she had never been so happy. Camping-out had always been such a far-off thing, and belonged to summer tourists and the remote unsettled parts of country; but here she was, close to her own home, with all the delights of gypsy life suddenly made her own.
You know the carpenters left a lot when they fixed over that burnt part of the Hall." "Hurrah, an ice-boat!" cried Dick. "Just the thing. Let me help, you, Frank. Perhaps the captain will let us have an old camping-out tent for a sail." "Yes, I've asked him about that already, and he told Mrs. Green to get me one from the storehouse." "And what about nails and runners?"
Hume looked at them out of calm yellowish eyes as if he were studying them. "We should," they said eagerly. "Think it will turn out a picnic a glorified sort of camping-out, with black fellows to wait on you, and a lot of shooting and fishing? Is that your idea?" "We were talking about that this morning," said Compton, "and we came to the conclusion that exploring was hard work.
A fire was burning merrily in the stove, which stood under a tree; frying-pans and baking-tins, dippers and dishcloths, hung on the outer wall of her little house, and the whole had a camping-out air that was captivating, and possible only in a rainless land. I longed to linger and study this open-air housekeeping; if that woman had only been a bird!
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