Show a Every time we go up in the hills hilla we freeze to death Time after time weve we've awakened at night to find the interior of ot the station wagon like the inside of ot ofa ofa a a. well Insulated n 8 u 1 ate d refrigerator with no amount of ot clothing or bedding bringing relief So somebody Its It's always alway me Incidentally has hat to clamber Into the front seat turn on the motor and alt lit there with brittle teeth chattering until the heater heat heat- er heat heals up In the morning one dresses under un der del the covers leaps leape out into the chilly dawn touches six elx matches to the prepared kindling and jumps back into the heated car It always takes six matches to start a prepared and supervised fire But toss a out the window and the whole forest goes up in ten seconds This time Ume It was going to be different different- We were going to Lyman Lake In the with the tho Jeep Patrol and we were going to be warm So we packed two extra old blankets to put UNDER the air all cushion and the bed roll two extra blankets blanket to put OVER us fuzzy winter p for My Iy Lady Fair Louise long-handled long drop drop- bottom underwear which I or- or wear only to November football games and duck blinds for me a n sweater apiece also believe elleve it or not my parka and nd her coat car-coat solid wool When we rolled In at 9 pm p.m. under the whispering pines and near to the murmuring lake we didn't need any of these articles But we had em ready just In case When we awakened because it was too warm at ar 2 30 we still obviously didn't need em And when It was was time to getup get getup getup up at ai 5 am a.m. only because Torp Butters was roaming through the woods woo seeking the of any souls soul still till asleep it was al actually shirt shirt- at t feet We could hardly hal b believe It U Its It's been too hot ever since Ince Next time wo we plan a night out outwell well we'll probably freeze to death I This unusual warmth was waa explained explained ex ex- by the tact fact that It U was cloudy and rained like Billy Aitch about S am a.m. Fishing was very good In the lake they told me mo Grant Francis had his boat along with a tote tote- gote goto for his son Larry and they trolled with fine success Wayne Peterson Clyde Butters Coffey Coley Heiner and Keith Hemming begged begged beg beg beg- ged me to try my hand but I absolutely refused You see I have not yet bought this years year's license While It may be true that I dangled a line Tine In the water afew a afew few lew times just to be a bully fine fellow I knew I was In n no danger of catching anything There was no bait on the hook After all 11 When I was Wit a small boy I t MM was picked Up for fishing one day before fore the season seam sea I son IOn opened My Ily alibi that I was teaching a pet worm orm to swim went for 25 worth of naught I Even Een larger than the fish which were caught by every everyone one but me I were Vera the mosquitos These buggers bug I gers gem were the biggest and most vicious that I 1 hn have ve ever seen and andI I Im I'm Im I'm an old pro pm seer Every Everyone one took It d nap Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day afternoon Including me Ten minutes after I 1 fell tell asleep face down I awoke with a a. strange sensation of ot floating through space I was was My head was bump bump- Ing lag the ceiling of the station elation wagon Apparently about 40 or 60 80 of those big rascals lit III on my back and shoulders at AI once and fill J ec up lP at the same ame time and tried to take off simultaneously They were In so deep they couldn't get loose and lifted me off the mattress mattre When I bumped the telling ceiling they shook loose You dont don't lIeve it Look I. I they thet were eo so big that their whirred in tn unison They rheT wart making music The rhe Tho Desera Song Three beavers dr drowned Is In Inthe the tho lake lako because they were to come Up One good thine thine- thine those huge deer flies fled ned I S panic Well anyhow Bernie Carter Carter- and his lovely wife Connie us with re repellant so 80 we sleep Those were pretty big bIB mosquitoes Mac |