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=====Hymn of hate===== | =====Hymn of hate===== | ||
- | By Graco Edgecombe | + | By Grace Edgecombe |
- | Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ I'd like to bust it right in two,\\Or beet it till it's black and blue!\\I' | + | Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ |
+ | I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ | ||
+ | I'd like to bust it right in two,\\ | ||
+ | Or beet it till it's black and blue! | ||
+ | \\I'd like to fling it in the sea, | ||
+ | \\Or jump upon it, savagely!\\ | ||
+ | How dare it sit and mock at me,\\ | ||
+ | Knowing that it must carried be?\\ | ||
+ | How dare it grin, with beastly bulge,\\ | ||
+ | And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\ | ||
+ | And does it feed upon the air,\\ | ||
+ | That it grows daily heavier?\\ | ||
+ | Or slyly suck my puny strength\\ | ||
+ | And take my breadth, | ||
+ | Just watch it try to break my neck,\\ | ||
+ | Using me as a landing-deck\\ | ||
+ | Pompous pincushion! Loathsome | ||
+ | I vow you ne'er again I'll hump\\ | ||
**A POINT TO REMEMBER** | **A POINT TO REMEMBER** | ||
- | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying | + | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass reading by as much as three degrees. |
- | to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass-reading by as much as three | + | |
- | degrees. | + | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack |
- | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass-reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack | + | |
- | - 10- | + | =====From here there and everywhere===== |
- | FROM HERT,!_,_ THEL.F.E A-NJ), EVERYIkHER.E._ | + | |
- | In a booklet called | + | In a booklet called " |
- | in North-eastern States" | + | |
- | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, and have thirty committees to direct this activity." | + | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, |
- | ....And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans"9 even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. | + | |
- | By the way, the Federation' | + | And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans", even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. |
- | to be a searcher, there will be plenty of SJOpe for you. If you don't come on the stunt, you MAY have to turn out during the follo)Ang | + | |
- | Congratulations to the Polishing | + | By the way, the Federation' |
- | enjoying the June issue of their magazine - "Into the Blue"._ It is a 24-page issue of entertaining articles in which the reader can roam the world, and all the work of publication was done voluntarily by their own members! | + | |
- | 0 0 OOOOO 0 | + | Congratulations to the Publishing |
- | Here's good news for the mountaineers and ski-ers | + | |
- | ........ -we me me as | + | Here's good news for the mountaineers and skiers |
- | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; | + | |
- | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends, | + | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;\\ |
- | He had the passion and the power to roam, | + | Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home;\\ |
- | Were unto him companionship; | + | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends,\\ |
- | A mutual language, clearer than the tome | + | He had the passion and the power to roam,\\ |
- | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature' | + | Were unto him companionship; |
- | -- Byron. | + | A mutual language, clearer than the tome\\ |
- | When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. Susuki of Japan. | + | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake\\ |
- | CLUB GOSSIP | + | For Nature' |
+ | - Byron. | ||
+ | |||
+ | When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. | ||
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+ | Susuki of Japan. | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Club gossip===== | ||
By " | By " | ||
Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' | Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' |
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