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I'm just ripe for a long hike today, it's so cool and clear, but it's not nearly so pleasant going alone as it would be to have someone along to talk to on the way. Wouldn't you like to come along and keep me company? I can easily get permission from Mrs. Grayson for you."
It was plain enough that the girls were bent on following them, so no more objections were raised. "We'll travel so fast that the girls won't be able to keep up," whispered Tom Reade to Dick. "We'll lose 'em, and they'll be glad to hike back to the table." This, however, proved to be not quite as easy as had been expected.
We decided that if we worked on it for about three days, it would be ready. So we all started to hike it along the road to Little Valley. We had an adventure before we got there, and I guess I'd better ten you about it. I made a map too, so you can see the way everything was. It's about five miles to Little Valley by the road.
I was wearing my heavy winter clothes beside a heavy dog-skin fur coat. I left my grip at the restaurant and, walking across the street, found a long pole and started out on a thirteen mile hike. I would walk a little and then sit down, and even lie down a while and rest in the snow, and wept and prayed. It was about five-thirty in the afternoon when I reached Brother Geselbeck's pasture.
For a week it has rained, so that you, pushing through the dripping brush, are soaked and sodden and comfortless, and the bushes have become horrible to your shrinking goose-flesh. Or you are just plain tired out, not from a single day's fatigue, but from the gradual exhaustion of a long hike. Then in your secret soul you utter these sentiments: "You are a fool. This is not fun.
But they won't if we hike into the country. I'll wait for you by the elevator. Take as long as you want to oh, come quick!" "In a few minutes," she promised. She murmured, "I'll just talk to him for a quarter of an hour and come home."
But he kept on at the thing; and the minute he had half a drink in him which was usually the first thing in the morning he began to worry me to go out and find where they were cached and hike them out of it; and he kept at it all day.
"I haven't seen you since the war of the Roses. How goes it, lad?" Then, even in his heightened gaiety of mood, Thayre recognized the want and distress which had left their impress and pallor on this face, and his eyes sobered. With the other rules of the season he felt that forgetfulness of the past accorded, so he hastened to add, "You know these fellows. Fall in and hike along with us.
"It is the experience of every military commander, so I've read," Dick went on, "that a long march the first day of a big hike is no especially good sign of how the soldiers will hold out to the end. On the contrary, military men have found that it's better to march a shorter distance on the first day and to work up gradually to a good standard of performance." "All right," agreed Hazelton.
He wore the full scout regalia, including all sundries and accessories, and the sight of him as he came trudging up carried the others back to that day when they had taken their memorable hike to Woodcliff. For stuck under his belt like some awful document of authority was an envelope of goodly dimensions, and his countenance wore a look calculated to strike terror to the stoutest heart.
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