Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02

i they erected the fly in the form of a tent, fitted the sides to the same, and used the short poles as braces and stays, leaving three long poles which they did not use at all. It was a rather dubious looking affair-but then, it was a shelter after all.
 All ot the time that they were work ing making the camp they noticed what a lot of mosquitoes there were, but they all said: ''Aw, few mosquitoes won't hurt you" After supper it was decided to have a night guard, the same to change every three hours during the night. The purpose of the night guard was to maintain a small camp. fire. and Incidentally 10 keep a strong smudge going to ward of the hungry mos quitoes.
 The night guard went on duty at 9 o'clock sharp, and all was still. But who could sleep? The novelty of the situation. and the hard ground for a bed drove sleep away till after 10. By that time there was such coughing, sneezing, skipping, swatting and scratching that sleep was impossible. There was but one boy who slept at all, and he snOred. That noise continued till about 1915 and all the boys were just beginning to get accustomed to those cratic nocturnals when somebody said: ''Listen!' Sure enough, it was beginning to rain. Well, that seemed harmless enough inside of the tent But half-hour told the story. The fly-roof to the tent was leaking like sieve. At l:l5 the place which they called camp was flooded, and there arose cries in the night of: Gee. I'm get ting wet, '" Can't we find a dry place i'll this bloomin' old tent ?'' "I wish l was home.' etc.
 At 2:40 there was a unanimous vote to retreat to the barn, which was near by. There the tired and touchv boys proceeded to find the most comfortable place available to rest their weary and mosquito-biIten bodies. Some tried tte floor, some slept in managers, some the foorbeams and braces, and some went to the trouble to climb up ten or twelve feet over head, and there roasted on some of the 2x4 coss- pieces till dawn, with one exception--he fell off.
 It was a cross, scraggly troop of Boy Scouts that turned out for breakfast that morning at 3 o'clock, after the rain had stopped. What a cheerless, worthless breakfast that was.
 It was decided right then and there that it was impossible to inhabit the tent any longer, especially. if it was going Q rain every night as it had the night before. The boys were not er- tirely berefG of their enthusiasm over camping, but they wanted drier quarters. So the Scout Master thougl that the best thing to do. after count ing up the cash resources, was to take a cottage for the remaining time of five days, at the rate of $2 co day.
 A schedule was then made out, de- tailing the duties of each boy for each day while they were in camp. the work being divided as equally as possible. That covered everything but the cook ing. That fell to the duty of the Scout Master Il, task which he enjoyed with exquisite pleasure and patiencel
 A Barn Dance was given by the neighboring camp "Owaisa, a camp of Brooklyn. N. Y, girls. The Boy Scouts We're invited to attend. And all went. to a boy. There their laggiug spirits were revived.
 The rest of the time was spent in swimming, fishing, rowing and Scout practice. The dull periods were livened up with occasional pillow fights at bed- time.
 The boys returned home on foot Mon- day morning at about II o'clock. The trek was drawn home by Chas. Laf- fargue's auto at lively rate of speed, much to the merriment of all who wit messed its transit. E. R. L.