[Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookRoy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp CHAPTER XIII 2/5
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. They've got cushions with buckskin fringe--presents from Dearie and Sweetie, I suppose, and they've got a cedar chest with brass hinges. Regular modern Daniel Boones, they are." "Oh, me, oh, my!" Westy whispered; "have they got jackknives hanging from their belts ?" "Right the first time," Bert Winton said. "And leather cases of writing paper ?" I said, just for fun. "Everything except a burglar alarm and a telephone," Bert said; "but they're not half bad chaps.
We'll row over and see them some day.
They have wild times around their camp-fire, telling yarns and watching the roaring blaze in their oil stove.
They've got a fancy Indian blanket, you ought to see it.
One of them paddled over to camp one day and wanted to buy a fishing rod.
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