Along the Mohawk Trail Author:Percy Keese Fitzhugh Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III A GOOD TURN AND A SALUTE That evening Gordon was doomed to disappointment. From the moment that he learned they might go, his active mind had b... more »een busy considering what articles they must take, and most of those he thought necessary were ruthlessly vetoed by his friend. He found that the first delight of the novice in camping and exploring was heartlessly taken from him — the delight of making preparations. There was, in fact, scarce any preparation at all. They spent the evening in Harry's room, which had much the appearance of a frontier trading-post, so crowded was it with camping paraphernalia and forest mementos. From these Harry collected a few things, some from the walls, some from bureau drawers, some from a large chest. There was fishing tackle, a practical jewel-set compass, a jack-knife which he carefully selected from several others, a small belt ax, a flat metal trap, several snares, a pair of moose- skin moccasins, a water-tight match box, the necessary toilet articles, a small file, a small aluminumfrying pan, a saucepan, a tin cup, a small aluminum coffee pot into which he put two knives, two forks, and two spoons, for Harry's duffel bag, containing his personal equipment for the trip, had gone on with the troop. " Now, let me see," he said, standing beside the bed and contemplating the things he had chosen, " you take this paper and write down what I name — or wait a minute, while I think of it." He disappeared, and presently returned with a spool of strong thread and two needles stuck into it. This he dropped into the tin cup, then dropped the tin cup into the coffee pot. " Now write down what I tell you — these are all things we've got to get in the morning. " Two tin plates. " Bacon. " Rice — do you like rice ? Saccharine tab...« less