Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-08-07
GIRL SCOUTS WRITE FROM CAMP

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Payette, arriving at our camp OF
Payette lakes about a. m. We Sc
up camp and in the afternoon wen
swimming. Monday we had our reg
ular flag raising exercise the frs
patrol cooking the meals, the sec
ind washed the dishes and the thirC
got water and wood. We hiked t
Mccall in the morning and had sig
nal practice and went in swimming
during the day. Every morning we
have tent inspection.
i An original poem written for a
surveying camp by c. E. Redfield
head surveyor, and re-arranged for
a scout camp by Dorothy Redfield.
A Bear In Camp
We were camped in valley not
very wide,
Steep high mountains on either side.
Scouting was our work.
Our girls were Of the scoutly sort,
To nothing low they would resort :
Or any duty shirk.
A long and slender footlog did span
The clear stream that by our camp
ran,
Well filled with mountain trout.
Our supper DER when work was done
With hook and line it was rare fun
/ To throw the fine fish out.
One evening as I went to fish,
Effie Pitts expressed the wish
That I should meet a bear.
mo fear" said I, 1.-The frequent
signs,
OF late I've seen mid frs and pines,
You need not have a care.
For while we know that bears will
fight
Ferociously with all their might, !
When wounded or brought to bay,
Yet they will flee at every sound,
Not even stop to look around
When startled night or day.
1 had caught nine fine MOUNTAIN
trout
When, as CHANGED to look about,
What think you / did see?
A bear as big as any COW,
At least, he seems so to me now,
Eyeing me eurieusiy.
Despite my recent reasoning wise,
He looked at me with longing eyes /
Nor ran one step, the scamp, =
And was 1 scared, expression mild, |
was simply terrified and wild,
For he stood twixt me and camp.
He started toward me after time;
looked about for a tree to climb, |
But no tree gould see;
When a happy thought came to my
mind
And I decided that l w9pld find
His ebjeet, fish OF nae: /,
I threw him one of the largest trout, 7
He ate it and liked it without doubt, /
Then locked at HE demufeiy. |
threw him the rest of them one by
one.
They pleased his taste, as the first ,
had done.
Fish was his object, surely.
Meanwhile. had managed to walk
around
AS he ate the fish from off the
ground IN
To point between camp and the
bear,
Wk9 thinking bad more fish,
To get which was 9is ardent wish :.
Advanced with determined air. i
turned and fled, well was my need
And Fan for camp al tspm9st speed,
The bear close on my track. =
reached the camp somehow at last.
And sioutiy wildly as I passed; T.
climbed tamarack. sell.
Shoot him, boys. I've broughthi v
in" l cried. +
He pressed me close, though hard t
I've tried f
To outrun the savage beast" IL
ellen Coblentz shot, wild was ,fher
aim, 4
t stopped him not and on he came, f
Nor checked him in the least. Fl
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ND Ellen then SHOT At him fwice =
more = IL
nd each time missed him as Hefofe +
Yet drew the bears attention..
nd Ellen, tho brave as she could be o
hen dropped her gun and climbed Il
tree, III
But this I should not mention.A II
- ti''a -hee Ia al
eth JeweiFs FRANC &itf legS9r e.
shook, s.
sfuge in the mess chest she look, =,
With a terrifying shout.
! but her feet, tho she's so>spry, Or
e wears six the same as h g.,
So had 60 leave them out. -,
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ice athis across the foodoa ran, pu