Show HIGGINS LIKES CAMPING OUT I BUT MOSTLY FAVORS i THE OUT OUTI I F I Lg I I r 4 D O t The trek ended in In lie ilia shed of a farmer where herc tic the goat Roat belonged By Dy SAM SAIT HELLMAN iSN j inquires High Dome i NOw 1 I a Finnegan would you like Ilk to te Join a gang of oC the boys bos on s a camping trip and and andIn Ill In take eczema for mine 1 I cuts In quick or a 11 case of locomotive loco loco- locomotive locomotive motive ataxia Forget it growls Finnegan This is a mob of ot swell bimbos bimbo and antI well we'll have a 11 wow of ot a time Not ot for my wife's favorite hus hug husband husban band ban I growls back Camping trips is s the fondest thing I of ot SNAKE B IX IS SOUP High HI I suppose sneers ideas of ol Dome Demo you y ou got your them from movie comedies where the rho tent Is U always alwa's flattened down by 1 a rainstorm and the tho campers find a a. snake In the soup I did not I assures him I 1 go up the state with that lInt gang last year y ar you ou know the theone theone one oTle that Bud Du Heeney Heene framed up Finnegan Finne- Finne Dud told me returns gan that he a great reat time When he tell you ou that 1 I asked FORGET HARDSHIPS A couple of weeks ago an- an answers an an- answers answers High Dome when I seen hi mat the John J. J J Tracy Literary and Fry Fish Society doings Two weeks ago eh I sniffs time when Every JOery J trips trip's a great you talk talle about it a year later You should have brave put your our question to Bud Hud tho the day he come back from the camping outrage when I 1 had hada a sprained ankle poison ivy and anda I a chigger bite for every ever Kinky Kinky- kink head I In Africa you go that trip queries Finnegan I Up In the Lake country country coun coun- countr I what's the try tr I tells him but difference A punch In the tho Jaw is Just the th same no matter where you y get the wallop I They aint Jiggers or whatever you ou call em cm on the Burnish River Hivel High where were we're going says nays Dome PLENTY If It aint chiggers I 1 assures him be gnats or with seal w th rabies You Just cant can't get getaway getaway getaway away from discomfort at them out-door out stunts Youre cuckoo snaps Finne- Finne I gan Even it If you OU do have a little lit little lit lit-I enough tle tie aint there spiffy s to mape up for tor em cm Think of frying venison over an open oen fire lake lako trout right fro river sitting around the tho camp fire and spinning yarns tak tak- taking taking takIng ing early earl morning hikes and dips In the river climbing climbing been taking their dope from the movies mo now now I cuts in with a Jeer Wo Vo had all them ideas in our heads ht ads last year Ev Iv- has hns when they start 01 on ona an a n trip menu BECOMES ES GOAT Just like a turn turns turnout out to be a Swedish blonde 1 comes back bacle Venison over tin the open fire I 1 laugh ha-ha ha you OU get no deer We e didn't get no nearer a aher ricer her I 1 tells him lum than a billiard ball gels gets to a full fult head of hair The last day we wo were there w sv wo thought we saw the tracks ot of i 1 deer and followed It for tor steen anc am anca ama a halt half miles The trek ended lr it Vie tie shed of a Q farmer where th tho goat belonged GOT CHARLEY HORSES Well Yell says Finnegan yoi ou squirrels rind land things you OU Not even things I returns The closest we come to getting any al animals was when Charlie Charli Gift and Luke Frizzle developed developer All we had in th tho way woy of meat was tho the bacon w we with us Bacon sizzling over an oper open Ire dont don't d nt sound so bad remarks remark High Dome sniffing the air read about It it itI Not ot when you ou I 1 admits The Tho bacon we wo hat had ha might of ot been all right on the tho hoof but on account of it falling failing off oft a pack horse into a swami swam on the way to the tho camp it didn't stack up so good II It sterns like every ever time we started to do any cooking in that dump the come up and blow all ai the ashes and twigs in the worM world Into the frying pan When hen it 11 wasn't windy wind it was raining Ie I e l' l cat eat a chunk of half halt raw bacon mixed with cinders If you were hungry enough suggested Finnegan even that thai wouldn't be bo so bad food roo Isn't the whole thing about camping out Didn't you have no fun outside of ot fattening your tummy How was the fishing WATER W. POISONOUS I Not so good I comes back We Ye monkeys around a a. week without getting a bite hite Then we finds out from a guy that wanders wandera by that there aint been a a. fish In that part of ot the river for tight eight years jears t ars on account of a 11 smelter plant a few miles above that damped d acid into the time water So Se Sowe we moved oved camp above the send tar ter Then you ou got fish assumes High Dome No I 1 tells him The water was too low up there What a Il fine bunch of yodels your ur crowd must hove have been sneers Finnegan pitching a n camp campIn campIn campIn In places like e that I 1 suppose he Ire adds sarcastic you 1 0 couldn't even take any hikes or do any swimming either cither PLENTY SNAKES You could walk all where we was all right I admits If stepping on n snakes plowing through mos mos- mosquitoes getting yourself all torn up by thorns and stumbling over sharp carp rocks Pocks is your our Idea of a handsome hike The swimming was vas Just as bad What was tho the trouble there asks High Dome The Tho water waterloo loo 00 oo wet RIVER SLIMY No o I comes back it was dry enough nough but the tho bottom of the riv riv- river river er r was filled with a 11 tangle of slime and weeds By B the tho time you OU dragged d yourself out of ot the drink looked like a wicker basket with mud We had llad to pull l Dud Cud ud out of oC the tho water twice on ac ac- account account count of ot his getting his toes so tangled angled up with the stuff in the river iver that he couldn't pry himself self loose Didn't you OU say something shout spinning yarns arns around the open fire In the tho evening I I did says Finnegan eagerly MOSQUITOES HAD nM One guy started to tell a story etory it tt our camp I tells him but of ot iou rou couldn't hear him because the the he snores that everybody else In Inthe InI the he place was pulling You dont don't donto go o In for bed time tales on those I trips rips You hit bit the tho hay early carlyon on recount account of ot the mosquitoes not let letting ting log you YO sleep moren two or three sours hours the whole night How Hov long did you ou stay slay in that cesspool asks High Dome Ten days I 1 tells him Wo Yo planned panned to be gone ono two weeks but wo we cut the th outing short because of rf the frying pan What II at happened to that In In- quires Finnegan LOST JoST TRY rnY PAN X Everybody I returns was WIl supposed d to take d a turn cleaning It t When my trick arrived it rained like hell and the rain rilin did the be Job for mo me m The boys didn't want aunt to count that a wash so 80 there thero was vas a n. little argument Bud DUll and andre ne re particular had a 0 few words The frying Ing pan p n Ju just t missed his 1115 ear but it fell rell in tho the river You cant can't camp without a n. frying pan i ca can an All All you right ht says Finnegan Ill Illi 11 ell i the boys that I cant can't go |