. Roy Blakeley's adventures in camp . d, the quicker the sooner. We can follow the old creek bed, he where that is, dont you? I said, Believe me, the only bed I know any-thing about is the one I sleep in. I dont see howyou find out so many things, especially as you werenever here before. Oh, I like to just prowl around, he said,thats the way with tigers. I notice you always have a stick, too, I said. He said, Sure a sticks good company. I justroot around with it. This is my third season here, I said, and Inever even heard about any old creek bed. Inever heard about Nicks Valley eithe
. Roy Blakeley's adventures in camp . d, the quicker the sooner. We can follow the old creek bed, he where that is, dont you? I said, Believe me, the only bed I know any-thing about is the one I sleep in. I dont see howyou find out so many things, especially as you werenever here before. Oh, I like to just prowl around, he said,thats the way with tigers. I notice you always have a stick, too, I said. He said, Sure a sticks good company. I justroot around with it. This is my third season here, I said, and Inever even heard about any old creek bed. Inever heard about Nicks Valley either. Guess you never talked much with the oldfarmers, hey? he asked. We rowed across the lake to Nicks Cove (Iknew all about that, because it was where thecampers were and besides I knew about it any-way) . If you will look on the map youll see it andyoull notice how there are mountains there—kind of two sets of mountains with a space be-tween. I made that map so you could see just howeverything happened, because, believe me, we were. ADVENTURES IN CAMP 161 going to have some adventure. Only we didntknow it. We rowed way up into the end of Nicks Coveand pulled the skiff part way up on shore. Onething I noticed and that was that some of thetrees around there stood in the water. I knewthat was on account of the lake being swollen, be-cause there had been so much rain lately. Evenover at Temple Camp the water was up to thespring-board, so that when we jumped on it, itsplashed right into the lake. Cove is pretty big after all the rain, Bertsaid. And then, sure enough, he looked aroundand broke a branch off a tree and pulled the twigsoff it. Thatll do to poke around with, he said,now come ahead. You and your stick are like Uncle Jeb and hispipe, I told him. He said, Now well wend our way through oldNicks Valley. Itll bring us right out near the oldcreek bed. Then we can follow that right downto the river. Thats the way Skinny did, but Iguess he just stumbled through that way. Everhe
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