Camp Pasquaney - Annual Yearbook (Hebron, NH)

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22 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL down into the Hre and the warming plafce which c-onsisted of one small hole through which a p-late could be shoved w-ith 'the greatest difficult? To get the plate out without spill- ing half the contents or burning the fingerg was 21 physical impossibility. Therefore 'the oven was destroyed, much to the- dismay of its creat-ors. All the next day was spent lin pre- paring for the feast. Woeoicl was collected again, a n-ew and more practical oven was built, and every- body and everyth-ing was ready by five o'clock. At quarter to six the meal began. Creme dioini-on and soupe de potato started it off, fried Hamburger QGerman sty-le-D, French browned potatoes, and 'the most delicious corn and onions f-o-llowed. You can just bet I was hot and tired after cooking all this! Well, next came a mixture of choco-late and strawberry lice cream, aided and abetted by six dozen Ca-pe Cod cookies. We later adjourned to a campfire- and -t-he ever-presen-t coco-a and marshmallows. Statist-ics were voted as follows: Best Camper Tie, jack Ro-use and Fran Smith Most Cheerful jack Patterson Best Sleeper VValt Qunanimo-usj PFCVEB' Boy Tommy,' Hart Thus endeth the simple history of the camping party, and I, the hum- ble frying pan, return again to Nfemorial Hall to await another week of adventure next year. F. G. S., jr. A soJoURN IN THE w1Lo12RNEss QBeing the -account of the Belle Island Camping Partyj Chapter One 1. In the beginning M i s t e r Hinch-man an-d Mister Stanwood did sole-ct for 'their Camping Party bo-th great whales and little fis-hes QC1ar- ter Higgins and Ge-of Vlfhitneyj. 2. And every living thing that moveth after its kind such as Ben Townsend., Hugh Chase, Andy Davis, Dan Howe, Brooke S'tod- dard, juni-or Watsoii, Han-d Dick Prouty. 3. And Belle Island was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the earth Conly by nightl. 4. S-o 'they di-d efncamp upon- the island 'and pit-ch their tents. 5. And there was no- wood, so the children of B-elle 'did humble themselves and wore sack cl-oth and ashes, and did tear their hair. 6. But when they hunted upon the mainland, wood was found and 'they did cook, eat, and rejoice thereof. 7. And their counselllolrs sa-w it was goodg so- -the morning and eve- ning were of the first day. Chapter Two 1. And junior Watson and Andy Davis did evil, so while sailing on. the waters a wind did arise and blow them to 'the land of Goshen C Crescent Beachj. 1..- -,Nz ,,.,.... ......- ,,, , ,,,, . , , v ans- -as-also-as...., -nun.-4.4 - H 1-,4hLg,f.4.f-danny. ye... L. , . .-ov-an-an-4-'A,,,,, . . , .MU . A

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THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 21 And no-w com-es my big part .in the narrative. After supper I had been 'careful-ly pu't back in my cus- tomary resting-place fin 'the commis- sary tent and had taken a couple of cat naps C-or perhaps I should say frying pan naps!j, wh-en. -along abo-ut f-our o'fcl-o-ck in the morning I was aroused by tw-or people slowly approaching. Before I was thor- ough-ly awakened I was firmly .--1 , - '- ' ' -4':E::::-- 's5?HHSs!E':::':iE5Pii' .gistiigizlmfasa Z . K - R' x .. .L.'- 2 I - ef: Wogires -L ' f tariff ' 2 - RSX ' fe . I-. 12 i ,- A Q: ,ig-i 1-:A-izir 12215 Legg? ,fix -ie F 2 Tie 5'-fl?-1 I3'f'ff? if l , S3 .7 Sketch by J. L. Patterson, Jr. I WAS LIFTED FROM MY RESTING PLACE. grasped and -lifted from my resting place. I did my besft to cry out and awake-n s-om-evo-ne but the snores of 't-he 'nameless sleeper drowned out my futile efforts. I I so-on found myself in a cano-e and my captors were 'rapid-ly padd-ling away. We landed again presently, however, and it was not lo-ng before I recognize-d my sur- roundings. We were 'on Cl-iffe Isrlarnd fthe place I had been the year befrorej. ' We- landed and I was carried up the rocky l-ed-ge. just where I was plarced I'd rather not teill, but it was not very comfortable. And there I stayed until about two in the after- noon when I was r e s c u e d b y 6'Thrus and Phfil. They swore that Nordie -had kidnapped me. How I .longed to be able to set them straight, for 'the cu-lprit, as you may have guessed, was no -oth-er' than that inchworm Hifn'chman assisted by Dick Prouty. We returned to Crescent Beach via M a y b e t h ' s Pantry anbo-ut supper time. A short moonlight paddle ended another happy day. The next morning was sp-ent in l-oafing but during the afternoon the greatest CU feat -of the p a rty occurred. The tw-o Jacks built an oven-. At a distanc-e fit looked 3' over! , r ea W . ,a , ljfflwllg 77 A I , ' v'a1L .:1f' ' - Lg, - ----L - 4- ,? Sketch bv J. L. Patterson, Jr. THE. TWO JACKS BUILT AN QVEN like a jumbled mass of rocksg a few feet away from it, it resembl-ed a pile- of stones. Sand had been p-oured over it, and the heat Cwhat little there wasj had dried i't. VVhereupon the s-and came trickling

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THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 23 Z. And when a icertain Samaritan CMr. Mortonj did see them he had compassion upon them. 3. And pouring o-n oil an-d filling their cups with wine until they did run over, he bo-und up their wounds and sent them -home t-o- Pharaoh Stanwood. 4. N-or did he piasls by on the other sideg and th-e even-in-g and morning were of the second day. Chapter Three 1. On the morning of th-e third day tw-o sons of the prophet did descend from the Land of Canaan QBellej to the Land -o-f Goshen. Z. And while the Gos-henites yet s-lept they removed 'the incense pot Cfryuing panj and left it at M-ount Sinai fCliffej. . 3. So there was a famine because of the evil done in the sight of no one. 4. Therefore the p eo p le did migrate to the Pantry of 1Vfaybeth from whence they returned with gr-ain. 5. And it was go-odg so the people ate thereof. 6. And the evening and morning were -of the third day. Chapter Four 1. But again there was famine in the land Qfor the night of the feast was approach ingjr . 2. Ain-d it further transpired that Mount Si-nai's incen-se p-ot Qthis time a coffee potj had disappeared and had been found in t-he land of the Philistines QMayhew's I-slandj. 3. Wlierefiore 'a great plague bef fell the 'house o-f Hinchman, and ire came forth from the commissary but it consumed him not. 4. Again the Bellites did migrate to the Pa-nitry o-f Maybethg so f-ood was had fby all that n-ight. 5. And they did rejoice greatly thereofg a-nd the evening and the morning were of the fourth day. Chapter Five 1. Bec-aus-e great wrath remained upon the son of Hinchman there wa-s no water and great thirst pre- vailed throughout the land. Z. And the .children of Belle d-id pray that there might be rain, and the co-unsellors saw i-t was good. 3. And everybody pascked his duH'1ebag. 4. So endeth t-he fifth chapter o-f the acts Cgood and badj -of th-e un- holy apos-tles. Chapter Six 1. And on the -last day the whole people did convene to choose from among their number those members who were outstanding for divers reasons. 2. For they did -choo-se as Best Camper a. certain! Ben Townsend -of the family 'of Charles Townsend, the wood-worker. 3. And there was moreoverpa man of great energy called Geof Whitney whom they did select as Mcst Helpful.