The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-07-27

lohAse OF tWo-hunureu-y year-Old pines 1
at the star-studded sky-why it would |
be foolish to try to describe it.
A bugle call in the early morning. |
and the routine of camp life began. |
The Wolves, under the direction of the |
grown-ups, were cooks for that day, !
to be followed by Foxes, they by the
Stays and then the Wolves again and
so on. But life was not all work
there. There was aplenty of fun. too.
Ii was a pleasant surprise TO find that
the pleasure and interests of campers
were protected on the lake by a splen-
did fleet of one man-power, non-sink-
able. fatbottomed cruisers, (guaran-
teed speed of one knot per hour) which
might be overturned in such "a way as
to catch and hold a layer of air and
then you could dive under and come up
with your nose in the enclosed air and
stay almost as long as you desired.
Or. you could run along the upturned,
unscraped bottom, slide the way you
do on ice, the last foot or two, and
drop, with delightful splash into the
water over your head-or. the boat
being righted, manned, and armed
with high-pressure spoons, or rapid-fire
flies. war could be successfully waged
against the unsuspecting but tasteful
trout, many of whom gave up their
lives with fight, 20 grace first the
frying pan and then the board, How
good those trout were when you were
trolling for them, and when you had
them hooked. and when you were good
and tired, and, most of all when you
had a hunk of one in your hungry
mouth.
Speaking of mouths, there is a class
of wordss which scouts mouth is not
supposed to utter, should scout $
mouth so far forget itself as to say,
for instance-well never mind, if it
should say one of these words, the
other scouts present seize the owner of
THE mouth. hold his two arms aloft and
gently, but firmly pour cup Of real,
nice cold water down his sleeve and it
trickles and trickles, and runs in un-
pleasant little streams down his arm,
along down his side and even to his
socks and it stays wet for good time,
too, giving evidence that il is a clean
ser of speech as well as of body. This.
however, happeed so seldom at Lost
Lake that it was something of a cere-
mony when it did occur.
Another otfense had to be dealt with
differently. One night when we were
singing around the camp fire some one
gave a rendering of 1.-THE Old Time
Religion. " II took, especially the
chorus,
1T was good enough for father
1t was good enough for mother
1t as good enough for brother
And it's good enough for me. T"
That took, like the measles and
promised-to run for nine days, Oh for
whatever time measles run. When,
next morning. one Of the larger boys
was shouting this out at the top OF his
lungs in nerve-racking reiteration, til!
the young men of neighboring camp
| fired off their six shooters in protest,
he was ordered to stand on top of an
old tree stump, and sing for half an
hour without stopping, the chorus, on
| pain OF havi6g every person in his
| vicinity fire blocks of wood at him
should he stop for minute. After
twenty minutes effort the balance of
the sentence was RENTED on promise
of good behavior. He tried, in the
evening, though, to get even by organ
izing bunch to sing the prohibited
song in unison. These criminals were
| instantly ordered to various stumps
and fallen logs, where they remained
singing, or rather bowling, to bliss
| fully unattentative world till the ex-
aggerated hilarity of the law abiding
group over story and joke drew them,
one by one, from their perches.
AS one great object of the trip was
to help the boys to qualify for second
class scouts. part of the two first days
was spent under the instruction of DIR.
Kanaga in acquiring the First Aid"
knowledge required for that grade.
Several of the older boys had already
received instruction in this from DR..
Malcolm Bronson, who from the first
has taken lively interest in the work
of the Boy Scouts of Hood River.
Most of the Boys, however, had as yet
had no instruction in First Aid. The
troop was therefore divided into two
classes. A short talk on what to do in
case of a certain injury was given,
questions asked, and then the boys
were called upon each to be either the
victim of a supposed accident or the
partner who had to care for him until
the arrival of a doctor. The victims
acted their parts well, those who cared
for them of course made some blunders
at first, but soon came to do the right
thing, a little rough, perhaps, but
nevertheless in the right way. Then
things would change; the victim OF
one time would be the helper next and
so all had a good chance and made
good progress. The boys of the TROOP
are now keenly anxious to be on hand
the next time citizen cuts an artery,
or breaks limb, or punctures his foot
with rusty nail or gets bitten by 8
snake. Perhaps to some our outing
lacked completeness because none Of
these things happened to any of the
party and no opportunity was giveT
for display Of real First Aid. In
fact from the standpoint of the grown
ups it was most fortunate in this re
spect; for no accident occurred othel
than slight alteration between on'
member of the party and pair o.
scissors, in which the scissors came
, out best, and night attack by yellow
J Jackets upon our guest from the East
. who after a long days tramp sough
| W COOi MS wear lCGb III buc bllShiihl
: waters of a ripping rill. Disturbed il
t their peaceful slumbers by finding th'
5 weihgty mass of human crushing il
e one corner of their abode, detatcl
e ment of the little insects was sent ou
, to do battle with the intruder, shrill,
S sounding the Y. j. war cry.
' wheeled into line, and with exquisit
( military judgment threw the weigh
t of the batallions against the unpro
e tected feet of the enemy, then by a
s upward turn they reached the cover o
g the tlapping trouser leg and ther
poured forth the deadly volley Q
r stings. The enemy was routed, horse
It foot and dragons. particularly foot
IS and fled in disorder, leaving as spoil
e of war his shoes and socks. To tn
: recovery.of the Ispoils came the scout
II master sure, that, calm and unafraiC
n no harm would come, secured the dt