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Title: Camping at Cherry Pond
Author: Henry Abbott
Release Date: December 16, 2010 [EBook #34670]
Language: English
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CAMPING
AT
CHERRY POND
By
HENRY ABBOTT
NEW YORK
1916
Copyright 1916
by
HENRY ABBOTT
Camping at Cherry Pond
We were out of meat. We were not in imminent danger of starvation, nor indeed of hunger, but were reduced to what might be called a vegetable diet, and not a great variety of that. Bige and I discussed the situation while we ate our frugal evening meal of flapjacks, maple syrup, and onions. We had eaten onions, syrup, and flapjacks for luncheon, and syrup, onions, and flapjacks for breakfast that same day. The last of our stock of bacon had been consumed twenty-four hours earlier, and the last of our eggs had served as part of breakfast on the morning of the previous day. Our fresh meat had disappeared five days before, and the potato bag was empty. We had some coffee and plenty of spring water. The flapjacks were good, but we were not quite happy. There was a lot of sameness in our diet, which was far from agreeable, and we now were considering ways and means.
I suppose it is due to the perversity of the human animal that he craves what is sometimes called a balanced ration.
We were both fond of flapjacks, and likewise of onions. There is nothing quite so satisfying