Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

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like to go in the surf 1t Asbury Park,
! but Inc at Aunt Nets again for the
: summer and they dont have any salt
: water out here, so I have to be salts
t Eyed with conditions as they are.
t Anyway we had an adventure yes
terday that you might be interested
7 to hear.
My cousin Ned has two chums that
come out to stay on the next farm
Jevery summer. Their name is Robin
son, VIII and Merrill. They all ways
get up lots of fun when they come.
Yesterday Will came over to ask Ned
could he, go up the river in a row
? boat, up as far as Onondagua, over
two dams. Gee, blu / wanted to go
to, but 1 knew their wasn't any use
/. asking, because l was a girl, and this
was going to be a boys party. But
/. | can row pretty well and take my
turn, and the more Will talked about
; it to Ned the more | wanted to go,
naehralIy. Will is awful goodheart-
ed, and he saw how 1 wanted TO go.
I so he said, "You come on to, Mat.
: ThatIl give us two shifts on the ors.
It's upstream all the way, SO four viii
; be better than three"
! Well, you know, Mary G. how
crazy l would be, now that the spark
of hope was kindled in my brest, but
! there was Aunt Net of course.
! Mother wouldn't let me go on such
I an czslrzion in a million years.
, But Will asked Aunt Net, and
{ glory be, she said yes. So she packed
us some lunch and gave us each ten
cents. and we started fourth. We
: all knew the first mile up the river
> pretty well, so we dident get stuck
on but one rock, but being exper-
fenced we knew enough to get all in
! the stern and float off insted of
: standing up with an OIL and pushing
: ourselves round and round. Only
. awful tenderfeet do that.
| We got up to the Smithville dam,
and that was some fun, it was so
: shallow and so full of rocks and
!. swift water. But there was a kind
: of slide on the left side of the dam
4 so we could push u boat up over
: the dam. 1t vas some push to. |
could see why viii was so anxious
to have me go. Just three couldn't
possibly have done it.
4 It certainly was funny scenery W
s over the dam. Lots of trees were
n standing in the water, all gray ano
dead, and the water was deep, way
. over my head. I>dident like it very
e much. But I kept thinking to my
e self buck up Mabel, be a sport OF
h you wont get asked again." Which
a Is true, Mary G.
So we kept on, this time Merrill
and me rowing the two pairs of ors
g and VIII steering the rudder, and
g calling out starboard and port, and
o specially hardastarboard. He likes
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something thrilling was going tc
happen right off. But it dident. We
3 Just rowed and rowed and rowed un.
til 1 thought wed die, but at last
VIII stored US up to shore and We
lchanged ors, and Merrill sat in the
0 back seat cooling off. By this time
e the sun was quite high in the
e hevens and it felt like dinner time
Z But Will looked at his Ingetsol ano
: it was only ten o'clock.
But soon we came to another dam
+ THIS was at Kinneyvllle and II vas
y mt very high, so we could all jus
u get out an sort of drag the boa
y around. BY this ting we had oul
!, shoes and stockings off, SO it wa.
y FUN.
While we were pulling the boa
around Ned saw a store. "Hooray.'
8 he shouted. IT see land" We al
looked, because the river is SO mar
? row that you can throw n ball acr1st
: But what he saw Was a general store
: and we all felt that vas the place to
e spend our forty cents. So we land
: ed our boat, took in the ors as a
seman should Chat was what Will
always said) and we went UP to the
store. We figured out that we could
get a doz. bananas and some gum
for forty cents. So we did. Then
q we all sat down on the shore under
. a nice big tree and ate the ban
n nanas. The gum W. kept for cur
!, luncheon.
We felt much better after eating
2 a little somthing and had lew cour-
age to go n After rowing for
hours and hours we finely saw land
S again, as Ned would have said if he
{ hadent gone to sleep in the bottom
of the boat. And that was Ononda-
n qua. / couldent see anything but
a store and a blacksmith shop and
two houses and a cow and a Ford,
But Will said he knew it was Onon-
dagua, because it couldent be amy
thing else.
So we landed, and Ned woke up.
r and we went and got drinks at the
pump III front Oh the store, ana tnen
we got out our dinner basket and sat
: down in the shade near the boat. 1T
| was now twelve o'clock and seemed
much later.
:, Eating never seemed so grand be-
, fore. Lots of sandwiches, and a can
of milk, and some devulled s and
raddishes and cookies.
= After they were disspached there
b.. wasent anything left to feed the
. mudturtles with. But / guess they
. weren't hungry, they looked so peace
. full sitting on there logs, basking in
/ the sun.
We cought a few grasshopers, and
through them in the water for the
fish, just to find out if there were
: amy. There were. Punkin seeds,
Ned said. When 1 said it was Pump
l kin, they all laughed. Then Will
said the right name was sunfish.
they were so golden in the water. l
, thought that was a much nicer
3 name.
: All this time, VIII was trying to
unite the string that was tyed
! around the sandwiches. n when
| he found a pin / groned because 1
i, knew he was going fishing. line not
l strong for fishing myself, but L
thought as long as he'd asked me to
; go lde better not say anything, or
he'd a what nusances girls are ny
l way, you never can have fun when
girls are around. / don care much
for that kind of talk about girls.