Show I g I The Fun Camping Out Camping parties are quite the rage in I California during the summer months owing to the absence of rain which I makes them impossible or at least inex I pedient in the more yariable climate of j I the East That they conduce to health I and are the source of much enjoyment is beyond a doubt but they are attended by certain drawbacks as is shown by the following little domestic scene described in the San Francisco Chronicle This campingout business said the young married man to his guests as the wife of his bosom anointed his peeling nose with vaseline this camping out is not what its cracked up to beHave be-Have yon been camping out Thats what they call it There were four of usmy wiie here two young men about town and myself We had to coolcWell Well thats the benefit of having a wife she Ssh said the married man The young wife very suddenly looked sun burnt She is young and delicate about cooking We did the cooking We WhosWe The other two fellows and myself We got some cold mutton and a chicken a spring chicken spring of 50 The first question was to kill the chicken That chicken was a genuine spring chicken It sprang out of the wagon every five minutes and if its legs hadnt been tied wed never have caught it Well that wasnt my fault was it broke out the young wife Mv beloved darling who said it was We did not know what would be the easiest death for that chicken to lie t > o we put it on a fence and fired at it for an hour with three revolvers and a AVin chester rifle That chicken had a charmed life It winked at the bullets as they went past anywhere from a foot to a hundred hun-dred yards off It was no use None of us could hit it so we got out an axe and chopped its head off 1 Then it came to a question of picking it We tossed up a halfdollar as to who should do it I won the tossthat is I had to pick the chicken So I sat down on a fence and this young lady sat opposite and guyed me The other two fellows went fishing For two mortal hours I picked at that chicken When I got all the feathers oft there was nothing left so as we did not know how to cook it anyway we thiew it away Good exercise that Lots of fun Fun well never mind that Then the other fellows came home with some trout Cary here was set to cook the fish Hes a firstrate cook he is oh yes AVe were all hungry as bears and we ate grass and things while the cooking cook-ing went on When we gathered around the fire we found that Cary had forgotten forgot-ten to put any butter or anything in the fryingpan the fish all stuck to the bottom bot-tom and we had to scrape as much as we could with spoons But that wasnt much and we lived on cold mutton for two days Oh yes camping out is great fun |