A lot we cared. Didn't people even make fun of Christopher
Columbus?
CHAPTER IV
GO!
Buy remember, I told you that the hike didn't really begin till we got to
Catskill. The reason I don't count the hike from Temple Camp to Catskill
is because we were all the time hiking down there. It wasn't a hike, it
was a habit. I wouldn't be particular about three or four miles. Besides,
I wouldn't ask you to take them, because they've been used before. I
wouldn't give you any second hand miles.
When we got to Catskill we bought some egg powder and bacon (gee, I love
bacon) and coffee and sugar and camera films and mosquito dope and beans
and flour and chocolate. You can make a dandy sandwich putting a slice
of bacon between two slabs of chocolate. Mm-um! We had a pretty good
bivouac outfit, because the Warner twins have a balloon silk shelter that
rolls up so small won can almost put it in a fountain pen-that's what
Harry Donnelle said. Dorry Benton had his aluminum cooking set along,
saucepans, cups, dishes, coffee pot-everything fits inside of everything
else. One thing, we wouldn't starve, that was sure, because we had enough
stuff to make coffee and flapjacks for more than a week, counting six
flapjacks to every fellow and fourteen to Hunt Manners; oh boy, but that
fellow has some appetite! We had plenty of beans, too.
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