The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1900, Page 4

books "had glven up thelr housa in the city and gone to the glen to camp. Not that the glen was a nice place to camp. It was the last place in the world to which you or 1 would go to locate anything else than a slaughter house. A glen usually is thought of as a place where a rill trickles over mossy banks, and nymphs and sylphs and things chase themselves round the trunks of an- cient moss-hung trees. s % This was not the manner of that glen. It was dry as a bone. : Water was so scarce that the two youngest Gooks, who did most of the hard work becausé they were too smal: to defend themselves, g0t blisters on their feet and hands packing enough water to do coocking with. The Gooks didn’t use much water for anything else. So apt to catch cecld from it, you know. Another thing about this glen was its popularity. It seemed to be more pepular with the people than a gob of molasses with flies. There were s¢ many campers that they just tied their tents together in groups and rows. There was no room to stick tent pins. . In spite of all the Gooks’ care about tak- ing colds they got one apiece before iong. Heaven sent 'em. This was the way of it. Nature, as well as the rest of us, has been getting Eastern ideas of late and the summer storm is becoming more regular. The first night that the camp was started there came a soaker. It filled all the fam- ily wash tubs, soaked the tents, soaked the bedding and it soaked the Gooks. They got up, splashed round in the mud and tried to build a fire, instead of stay- ing sensibly in their beds and keepi quiet. Wet wood: no fire. Then they struck out for the hotel. After getting lost in the swamp between camp and Cattville depot they got to the hotel an hour behind the rest gf the campers and found that there wasn't even room for them on the office floor. Then Pa Gook left the family shivering on the porch and started through the village with a it STARTED THROU THE Vik-AGE . GM ) o < ", 5% L) & L) R 7 [ 7 (L ™ sy ] Amapaes P osm— ) 0 G 7] [/ iy - () =7 / ] N é AT\ W =9 "4 tallow candle in a lamp chimney for a light. The villagers, while neither proud nor exclusive, nevertheless had a whole- some horror of the various epidemic, con- tagious and automobile nuisances which the campers brought each year, and each and all had good excuses to save them- selves from having to lodge the Gooks. Pluvius worked till he was black in the face and Pa Gook returned to the family to find them in open mutiny. It ended by their spending the night in the stable, covered with horse blankets and hay. The morning was one of those beautiful things that makes you say: “Oh, what so rare as a day in June!” The men of the fami went back to camp to find fifteen cows standing on what had been the tent and busily engaged in eating onions, pota- toes and cabbage out of the box that was used as a pantry. But anybedy that would camp in the glen was not to be discouraged by a lit- tle thing like that. The tent was raked out of the mud; various articles of domes- tic and personal utility were dried in the sun and at night there was nothing to be noticed out of the way except the gen- THEY STRUCK QUT MOR THE =OT erally dirty appearance of things and the large-sized cold. The cold did not bother them as much as it did or might have done others, for the Gooks used no more handkerchiefs when they had colds than at any other time. Hippocrates Gook, though, had ad- vanced ideas and brought home from the city next evening a wonderful contriv- ance of rags and wire, which was adve tised to be better than a Turkish bath a method of curing colds, la grippe and other ills requiring calorific sapitation. There being but one tent there was no room in it to set up the thermopathetic healer, so Hippocrates took It away through the surrounding forest of grease- wood and poison oak to a secluded spot, which was over two hundred feet from the nearest camp. Here he set up the little tentlike contrivance within which he was to take the vapor bath, lit the gasoline lamp to heat it, opened the camp stoo on which he was to sit, disrobed hurried ly and crawled inside. Just as he had finished tying the strings around his neck to keep in the heat he heard giggling girl voices coming toward him. He grabbed