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You know , there's theres ' always a lot of hard luck on camp camp- campmg camping camping - - ing mg trips tnps Somebody is sure to get sunburned , and some some- somebody somebody somebody - - body else always steps on a rusty nail or clips chps himself WIth WIththe withthe withthe the hatchethIle hatchet \ while \\hIle hIle choppmg chopping wood for the fire The bird who whoIS whois whois IS doing domg the cookmg cooking burns half the food , and Just dust ] ust when whenyou're whenyou're whenyou're whenyoure you're youre ' comfortably settled and getting gettmg along fine . , Farmer FarmerJ FarmerJones FarmerJones J Jones ones comes along and orders you to move onCampmg onCamping on onCamping Camping Campmg trips tnps just breed hard luck , but the one Syd SydRapoport SydRapoport SydRapoport Rapoport went on was the champion hoodoo camping campmg tnpof tnpof tnp | of them all It started dealing out tough breaks before Syd Sydand Sydand Sydand and his hloS pals even got startedSyd startedSyd started startedSyd Syd lives I1ves in Brooklyn N Y It was in m the summer of1935 of 1935 that he and half a dozen other lads began planning plannmg that thatcampmg thatcamping thatcamping campmg camping trip tnp They had picked a spot upstate , in the neigh neIgh- neIghborhood neighborhood neighborhood - borhood of Poughkeepsie , and were allready all ready to go Then Thentwo , two days before they were due to leave there was a ternfic terrific ternficraInstorm terrificrainstorm terrificrainstorm raInstorm in m New York and , after inquiring mqwnng about the theweather theweather theweather weather they learned that it was the same upstateThe upstateThe upstate upstateThe The gang decided to go anyway-at anyway at anyway - at least , some of them themlid themdid themdid lid did When the day of the big trip tnp rolledaround rolled around one fellow fellowhad fellowhad fellowhad had the mumps Another was laid up with an infected mfected foot foot , , and two twoother twoother twoother other fellows fel10ws had mothers who said they couldn coulda t eo go camping camplng in such suchweather such.weather suchweather . .eather eather weather . because they d catch their death of pneumonia pneumoma sleeping sleepmg on damp dampground dampground dampCround ground ' ! The be trouble had started early but It t was nothing nothmg to what whatS whatSyd whatSd S Syd } ) d was to eet get into mto before that trip was many days older olderThe olderThe olderThe The Hikers Find Fmd Fmda Finda a Camping Campmg SIte SIteThere SiteThere SiteThere There were only two brothers and myself left leU says say * Syd Sydbut Sydbut Sydbnt but we went anyway The brothers were Harold Darold and Jerry LefJ Leff LefJThe LeffThe LeffThe The three it or of them took x a boat ti to Bear Mountain Mountam and then started startedto startedto startedto to hike hlke with two tents xnd and blankets and equipment on thell their theirbacks theirbacks ' backs After a day on the road-and road and road - and Syd doesn t say whether whetherthey whetherthey whetherthey they walked or thumbed rIdes-they rIdes they rides - - they reached the spot they bad badchosen badchosen badchosen chosen and picked a campme campmg camping cite Site siteThe citeThe ' ! The be ground was wet wet , , and the earth was loose ' ! They bey had a htUe little htUetrouble littletrouble littletrouble trouble puttme puttmg putting up their two small tents But finally everything wasr wasp was r p H HIaPu IaPu , 4 , Finally he had a trrrible horrible dream dreamshipshape dreamshipshape shipshape ' ! They bey got a fire fiomg gomg going cooked a meal and when they had hadeaten hadeaten hadeaten eaten it they were ready to turn In . in . Jerry and Harold occupied one onetent onetent onetent tent tent , , amd and Syd slept alone m In the otherSyd otherSyd other otherSyd Syd dropped off to sleep but he didn dldn t sleep very well . . Finally Fmall.Y FmallY . he hehad hehad behad had a horrible hornble dream-a dream a dream - a dream that something somethmg cold and shmy sluny slimy was wascrawling wascrawling wascrawling crawling over his arm ' ! The be dream woke turn him up and nd as he came cameslowly cameslowly cameslowly slowly to ills his MS senses he realized that that dream was a cold hard realIty realItySomethIng realitySomething realitySomething SomethIng cold and nd slimy was resting against his armIn armIn arm armIn In an instant Syd was wide awake A full toll moon mOOD was shmmg shining shmmgand shiningand shuun ; and Us Its brifbt bnght bright Iieht light streamed In throuch through the open flap of or the pup puptent puptent puptent tent In that bght light li ht Syd Byd saw something that made his blood run runcold runcold runcold cold Bis Dis His arm was lying Iymg outside the blanket and a snake bad had badcrawled hadcrawled badcrawled crawled up and nestled against it And Syd recognized recogD.1Zed recogD1Zed . that thatsnake thatsnake thatsnake snake for a poisonous copperhead copperhea.d copperheadFrozen . Frozen With Fear , He Cannot Move MoveSays MoveSays MoveSays Says be he "My My 11y " first impulse was to jump up and scream But ButI I cooldn couldn cogldnt t haic ha\e ha e hale \ moved to save my I life e I was frozen stiff stIfJ stsS With Withfear withfear withfear fear The moon bathed the head of the ( he snake with light Ilght and as I Ilay Ilay Ilay lay there ttuB shfJ stiff and trembling It crawled tcrawled ! ( up to my shoulder A Acold Acold Acold cold sweat broke out on my forehead Now I began to realize that thatI I didn dldn t dare move even If I could wuld One move would cause the ther'phle thereptile thereptile r'phle rphle reptile ( ' to stnkeBut strikeBut strike stnke But it seemed to Sd Syd S > ) d that he could hardly keep himself from mov moving moving moving ing Somehow he managed to he lIe there stiff and still The hours rolled rolledon rolledon rolledon on . . . Syd doesn t know how many of them went by Each minute mmute seemed seemedWte seemedlike seemedlike Wte like a year and each tecond second was like Wte a week of torture I wanted to toscream toscream toscream scream he says I felt as if I could control myself no longer At Atlast Atlast Atlast last the sky began getting gettmg gray and off ofJ in m the d stance I could hearsom hear hear80m hearsoma 80m soma " farmer s rooster crowing erowmg Then again agam the snake shifted shilted Its Itsposition itsposition itsposition position This bIS ' ! time it came to rest with its head bead across my gUllelNow gulletNow gullet gUllel gulletNow Now Syd was afraid to swallow tor for tear lear fear of disturbing disturbmg the snake He Hefelt Hefelt Hefelt felt his spine splne beg n to creep and his hair felt as s if it it were standing standmg up upon upon upon on his head . . It was getting gettmg I 1 ghter now and Syd was able to dlStm dtstm dlStmgu dtstmgu distmgu gu sh objects around him tum turn that he had bad lost tight sight of when the moon moonwent moonwent moonwent went down St 11 U it was a long tune time before dawn and his only hope hopewas hopewas hopewas was to lie be itiU sWI still until his pals awokeThe awoke . The Snakes Smelled of Rotten Cucumbers CucumbersHe CucumbersDe Cucumberstie De tie could wuld tee see the snake clearly now And then thcn out of the cor corner corner corner ner of Us his eye he h * saw another-and another and another - and another There were a bunch bunchor bunchof bunchof or of them In the tent And two of them were over tour four feet long longI I couldn t see the others v Tfrry very ry clearly he says for foi * I didn I dn dxln t tdare tdare tdare dare turn my bead head and nd it strained my eyes to look lit at them frommy from frommy frommy my position I was beginning beg-annmg beg annmg - to ihiTer shiver \ My 1\ly 1 ly muscles were werecramped werecramped werecramped cramped and saliva dripped from my mouth The snakes smelledof smelledor smelled or of rotten rotlen cucumbers and the odor sickened me But the sun snit was waswming wascoming wascoming wming coming op up and I could hear moTcmcnts movements In the other tent Thatrenewul Thatrenewed That renewul renewed Harold and Jerry were up A couple of times they walked past Syd s stent stent stent tent tent . . , but they d dn do t look in Then ben ' ! Jerry glanced through the open flap flapand flapand flapand and his eyes froze on the terrifying sight slghl . Syd sayi says he owes hia his life to tothose tothose tothose those two t.o to . brothers He thought Jerry was going to scream but he hed hed bed d dn do l t t . He rem rema a ned cool and to so did Harold ' ! The be pair of them stole stoleup stoleup ttoleup up behind Syd s tent tent , , gathered some damp hay from a field and set It Itafire itafire itafire afire Huge billows of smoke poured through the tent tenL tenLI tentI . I began ehok chok chokng ng says Syd "but but 'but ' " ' to so did the snakes They moved moved.and movedand . . and I lay l y back and breathed a * sigh of relief . . After Arter a few minutes mmutes I Iwent Iwent Iwent went outside p eked cked a spot In the tun sun and dozed off It was seven hours hoursbefore hoursbefore hourbefore * before I woke up again- again agalJ1 againAnd . - . 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