The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-05
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Scouts Enjoy Indiar, Hunt
 During Summer Car7pings

in there to venture further alone, so l started back through the opening for couple of my friends. Reaching the spring l found Hugh with bucket of water l asked where the bunch was He informed me they were on the side of the hill, starting a fire, where Eddens had found good camp ing rlace. I hurried Hugh to where they were, hoping that no smoke had been created from the fire. for if 1t had it would be too late to get my friends and hurry back to the cave, for the rules were that but one of us could~eave the campfire at q time. Upon reaching the bunch I found, to my sorrow that the fire was started l found sailor demonstrating to the boys how to build a fire with pine wood I did not see him using an ax and asked him where it was. He told me that Hugh had returned without the ax. Surely then, if the bunch finds the ax. they will search this section until they find us.
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 Suppose you go find the ax," said Sailor, so I went to the place where thought Hugh had left it. As luck would have it, quickly found the ax and returned to the camp to avoid being seen. I returned just in time for good breakfast. After eating considerable grub we spread our blankets near the fire and soon fell asleep. We slept soundly until 20 minutes of 12. After cooking some soup and making way with it l told them how I fell into the cave. Sailor told me that it was well that I had not ventured further. for the cave con- taineG a still. After I pleaded with him. Sailor consented to let me re- turn to the cave. Two boys and my self returned there on our own risk. We were to return to camp in half hour. As we went down the side of the mountain talking Hugh and Owen ran into some buckeyes. We gathered pocketful of the good luck pieces and went out our way.
 Upon reaching the cave Hugh lit his lamp and lead the way. While crawl ing about we noticed that the cave had been freshly dug and repairs were still being made. The side of the walls were propped with large oak trees and the top was made of board. After 15 feet the cave widened and was high enough for us to stand up. Looking around we found nothing of interest, to our sorrow, for the cave had not been finished and. therefore, was not carrying on any business. We found shovel nearby and an old pick.
 well. there is no still here, but 1t looks as If there might soon be-" Hugh said. Then we made our way back to camp and gathered some more buck eyes. We took the wrong path and came out on the other side of the camp. We heard some nose down the hill frcm us.
 There they are" exclaimed owen, so we started down the hill. AS we drew nearer we heard the voice of MT. Wester. instead of our friends so we went back up the hill as fast as possible. When we reached the top we heard Sailor. so we hurried to him, and told him that we had heard Mir. Wester and that we had gone so far as to whistle to them. This was noth- ing rev to Sailor. for he, too. had seen MT. Wester.
 Soon we saw one of our enemies gathering buckeyes within 100 yards of us. Our smoke blew down that way and got in his eyes once or twice. but he merely rubbed his eyes and walked away.
 A half an hour later MT. Wester re- turned to Camp Andrews to cook dn- ner. When we were sure that he had gone we lay down and went to sleep. The enemy had left the neighborhood.
 About 6 o'clock that evening we were playing around camp when l heard someone. I cautioned the rest to keep quiet Finally Sailor had to sneeze. and putting his nose into the ground he did so. MT. Wester was up a tree down at the foot of the hill and was up in the air even with us He caught this sound and a few mia utes later we were discovered
 As we walked back to camp we talked over the events of the day and laughed at the scout for getting our camp fire smoke in his eyes-s/ When we arrived at camp we found out that Waffle Huck had gone to Carmichael1 to find us. We had one big laugh over that days sport--By Bill Godfrey. member Troop 1s.