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Show the fact that the aforementioned youth remained in the camp for two and a half months after the course in surveying was finished; or a little might be said concerning the grand ball which the Juniors gave on the eve of their departure, but all this is common, of everyday occurrence, and only of passing interest, because "Skyn" already professes to have forgotten the young lady, and the badges worn at the Junior hop have been laid away in some surveying book. Even the memories of this magnificent affair have given way to a recollection of the Junior camp-Camp Maples.It could hardly be said that the site of Camp Maples was chosen because there was no other place to go, but one would hardly stray far from the truth if he ventured the remark that there were other places where the camp might have been placed. The site was a good one. The only spring within a radius of three miles was appropriated, and Cook, Cookess and Cookie Manwaring were immediately located near this spring with a nice dining and cooking tent.The rest of the camp was located about 100 yards from the dining tent, for the Juniors believed that a little exercise before breakfast would be mostbeneficial; and the only way to get the exercise was to place the breakfast at a good distance from the camp. But even this forethought in thus locating the dining edifice failed on one or two occasions. That is, it might be possible to persuade such feeble characters as "Granny" Bowman, or such avoid-the-work-habit people as "Snipe" Herbst to take in about two meals a day, but the third was ordinarily either passed by or else these stalwarts borrowed a can of jam and a box of soda crackers to avoid going to the dining tent. But their economy of labor, at least on one occasion, proved of avail. One evening they had specially provided their tent with a can of strawberry jam and a good stock of crackers. Indeed, so generous had they been with themselves that they had two kinds of crackers on hand.Now, singing is not one of their best qualities, and their prowess in this art is somewhat questioned, so when it was suggested that they sing a few little lullabies for the concourse of notables at Camp Maples they assumed that the delayed recognition of their vocal ability was at last to be declared. Hence they sang-sang so enthusiastically that they failed to notice that one clumsy "Jumbo" tossed about the tent, that one noisy Braggo was silent and that there was a nervousness in the movements of the entire assemblage; and, finally, that the entire bunch left the tent in haste after the aforementioned Jumbo and Braggo had departed. Though feeble in body, Granny is by no means feeble in mind, and with the knowledge of his wrongdoing in swiping the jam weighing heavily on his mind-for Granny was fairly honest in the past and his |