The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-01

| Santa Rosa Sound
! We had a nice little run Friday
morning around to Camp Walton, the
water smooth except for about ten
minutes on Choctawhatchee bar. There
| big Jumps Of water rose and subsidized,
without apparent cause, and I watched
the Missus apprehensively.
We found lots of friends at Camp
Walton and passed a very pleasant
day, mostly on the hotel gallery and
under the shade of the great live oaks
We are having two or three of the
hottest days of the year just now,
otherwise would have re-explored the
large mound northeast Of the hotel.
The wind blew hard from the north
west, but it was land breeze and not
refreshing like the sea breezes that
makes up 80 per cent of the summer
daytime breeze in this country.
/ lounged around The Store for an
hour and heard some things that I con-
slider should be noted in this log:
l heard about a big deer that a. man
saw at a. nearby branch head a few
days ago. The man said it was so big
that at first he thought it was horse
with a. rocking chair tied on his head!
heard about a man that has a repu-
tation hereabouts of being a sorry
trader. 1t was remarked that If this
man started to hell with a carload of
ice, that hell would freeze over before
he got there"
place that married a Pensacola widow.
A friend asked him if the lady was "a
grass widow or a, churchyard widow"
The reply was that he didn't know,
and that he thought so much Of her
that he wouldn't ask!
And some one told about a Camp
Walton lad that is rated as something
of a mechanical genius. This boy was
oiling a wheelbarrow and a man came
along and criticized the way he was
y,I Fr-ov hi
work and scornfully asked, What tn
hell do you know about machinery?'
We had a good dinner at the hotel
and at night went to the big dance.
Most of the dances We're two-steps, |
a fool dance that was invented just
about the time the Missus and 1 stopped
dancing. We waited and waited for |
good old waltz, and when at last a |
waltz was played no one got up and
could not induce the Missus to get up |
and break the ice, SO we sat on, doing |
our best to pacify the children who
came to us on an average of every two |
minutes with a demand for lemonade, |
ice cream, or peremptory, L want to |
go to bedi"
Finally a square dance was an |
noun ced and we broke in. The figures |
were strange to us, and we had to take |
it out in Swing yo' pardnah until the
Missus and I were too dizzy to walk
straight. That settled it. We had ice
ice water to go with our grape juice
the next day on our run down the
Sound, and turned the bottle over to
Dorothy to carry. The M1ssus took
the baby and I took Charlie (Which
two had meantime gone to Sleep and
we started out for the ship.
Dorothy turned the bottle over to
Marjorie to carry and Marjorie turned
1t over to Dick to carry, and about
half way to the beach, Dick dropped it
;-,%N MIC
Clearly 1t was not the fault OF the
Mfssus or l. so we scolded our three
eldest, and they felt so guilty that for
once they didn't sass" back. L told
them it was most fortunate for them
that I could not mend the bottle by
whipping them, otherwise sometime
between then and daylight the bottle
would be mended.
Dancing don't mix very well with
rearing a family Of six.
The champion fisherman of the Mar
rows, Allie Riera, promised US q, mess
Of trout for breakfast. About three a.
n heard the hotels fishermen guests
getting under way for the fishing
grounds a little way up the Narrows.
they made as much noise as I heard
ng out to find Railroad Bill, a dead
shot outlaw of twenty years ago. [
wondered, sleepily. if the result would
pc the same-no fish.
was up at SIX anu 6ISdSSd 1Oul ! .
iozen hot biscuits from the hotel.
Stragglers commenced to come in
rom the front" No fish" Sorry
lost so much good Sleep" etc BY
80 they were all back, except Allie.
rhe Missus said bacon I said mo,
Allie promised u.s." At a. m Allie
,ame in, and the snapshot shows what
he brought I had hard work 20 keep
lin from giving us more than the four
zig fellows on the left. If we had
aiken what he wanted to give. would !
AVE been cleaning fish until noon. =
rhe rest he divided up among the diff .
erent fishermen. Beauties, where did
.ou get them, A1lie?'' they all asked.
Right up yonder," he replied, point
ng with outstretched thumb and four 4;
pgers to eastward. :
Saw, but it was fine eating! What
ve couldn't eat for breakfast 1 sailed :
own and we had for breakfast this ,
morning. :
At s.: 80 a. m. we got under way and ;