White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-21

think of that night yet without laugh
ing heartily, the way his nohs crack.
ed his whip at the wood rats and
never hit one. Talk about fun. A
thousand baskets of monkeys would
not be a curtain raiser, for we in
wardly Were enjoying the discom,
fort of the missue, who did not want
to let us in out of the cloudburst,
was afraid we would share in the
heat Of her dry wood and selected
the place for our bed.
Breakfast getting time arrived. W.
cut off a great round steak from a
venison that comprised a part of our
outfit and gave it to the couple.
never saw n nicer, fatter deer than
that me-. The fat on it's rump was
over an inch thick. Never was there
"a more pronounced case of the wife
being the boss. While Mister was
eating his share of that steak Missus
said to him:
How do YOU like the venison7"
Don't bother me--Im eatin', -
was his rejoinder in tones of pre-
tended command.
At last we had won their fl len J.
ship-I should say her friendship,
for he was a friendly fellow. only
under the existing lineup he did not
count. The couple were from Med
ford and or their way for the frs
time to see Crater lake. AS we ad-
ranced to the summit tho Eeyt day
we ran into several inches OF snow.
Our friends were worried about how
they could make out to camp the
next night. not having a tent We
told them we would loan them our
tent as we would stop in the hotel at
the summit, bat suggested that they
would better do the same. TIE couple
had money, having just sold an orch
ard or a ranch, but would not con-
slider a hotel proposition. They
drove Off toward the lake with our
tent and We supposed they camped
close by, but the next morning when
they did not show up we concluded
they had gone to the Lake first.
Clouds had settled right down over
the mountains and We did not be-
;ieve it worth while to go up and at
tempt to see the lake, but felt that
by driving out in that direction it
would be a time saver N getting our
tent. Five miles out and about
a quarter Of 4 mile fror: the lake
we met them coming back.
ooh r,r,o& - -
sighed Mister, as we camc up to
II EN-. we never "var saw the
water"
A great cloud was clir eing to the
mountain top and had settled right
down into the great pit, 1900 Feet to
the waters surface. and they never
saw a ripple. All their h~ardships
gone glimmering-out and injured
AS long as we were 50 close we
thought We would take a chance. We
drove up to tie lake through eigh-
teen inches Of snow, waited twenty
minutes, then the cloud liftel enough
so thai we saw the Phantom Ship,
the outline Of the crater clear around
and the whole works But at that
it was too much of a pull an faithful
old Rowdy and we regretted it On his
account. But Rowdy was como horse
and that afternoon early he had us
in Fort klamath, twenty-five miles
on L road from the lake toward
! Tonopah.
No equinoxial storm passes with
ont talking over this experience, talk
ing all about it again, how the cabin
consigned to hogs looked more pala-
tial than the Waldorf-Astoria, how
the woman did not want us to enter
out of the rain and protested against
trying to burn green pine boughs,
I how she consigned us to the far cor
ner and they fought wood rats all
night while we Uttered, how he told
her not to bother him while he was
! eating our fat ven:son. how they