Ralph Henry Barbour

Name: Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

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“Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik”, published in 1908, is a work by Ralph Henry Barbour. It explores elements such as Inner Beach, Dick and Chub.

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ But the threat was never finished, for a canoe with its bow grounded on the beach and its stern afloat is something you can’t take liberties with. Chub, balancing himself in the stern, forgot this fact for a moment, and when he remembered it he was sitting in the water and Roy and Dick were howling gleefully. Strange to say, this misadventure restored Chub’s good-nature, and, after sitting for a minute up to his waist in the water and laughing at his predicament, he jumped up dripping, and hauled the canoe up the beach. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ Roy begged.
“He may get over it, though,” observed Dick, thoughtfully. But Chub shook his head.
“I’m afraid not,” he said. “Just look at his eyes; see that baleful glare, Dick? That’s what tells the story, the baleful glare; when you develop the baleful glare you are quite incurable. And see his lips work. He’s muttering to himself. That’s a frightfully bad sign, Dick. Pretty soon he will gibber, and when—”
“‘What is the name of the camp?’”
“Dry up, Chub,” commanded Roy. “Now listen. Let’s get a name the way the soap and biscuit people do.” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ And, when Chub had responded, “Where do you get your ‘h,a’?” he asked.
“I will explain. I put myself first—”
“That’s your modesty,” said Dick.
“Because I was here first. Then Roy came next and then that sneering youth over there. That made ‘Torodi,’ which is just what Roy had. But by adding another letter of Dick’s name, out of compliment, and because of the fact that the camp was his idea, I get ‘Torodik,’ which is a better sounding word than ‘Torodi.’ But still, it is not yet perfect. At this point genius gets in its work. I introduce the letters h,a, and the thing is complete.” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ Do you, Chub?”
“Well, it’s nice to be able to go fast, you know, and I suppose that a boat with eighteen feet can go faster than one with only sixteen. If you could afford it, Dick, it would be nice to get a centipede boat that could do about a mile a minute.”
“Oh, cut it out,” laughed Roy, “and head her in toward the point, Chub. Funny how much easier she paddles now.”
“We’re out of the current, probably,” answered Chub. “Shall we paddle around the point to the cove or—”
But at that instant Roy set up a howl of laughter, pointing speechlessly down the stream. Dick and Chub turned. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ After the boughs were placed in the tent and the blankets spread over them they scooped out a trench around the outside of the tent to drain off the water in case of a heavy rain. Then the boys separated in search of firewood, Roy looking for dead branches in the “forest” and Chub and Dick going to the upper end of the island. Chub took the canoe and Dick the rowboat, and by the time they had met, after having paddled along opposite shores, each had accumulated a respectable quantity of driftwood. Much of it was too wet to burn, and so when they got back to camp they spread it out in the sun. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ Do you want to have us in the water?”
“Now, if I had my motor-boat—” Dick commenced.
“Oh, blow you and your old motor-boat,” spluttered Chub. “You’ve got to learn to paddle, that’s what you’ve got to do!”
The runaway boat was soon captured, but it was some time before they had reached the island again, and during the return trip both Chub and Roy saved their breath for their work. They were both pretty well tuckered by the time they had regained the end of Inner Beach. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ Roy had meanwhile made several trips into the woods and a good-sized heap of dry branches lay beside the stove.
“Now what?” asked Dick, surveying the scene with satisfaction and wiping the perspiration from his face. Chub looked speculatively at the flagpole which stands at the end of School Point.
“We ought to have a flag,” he said. “Why didn’t we bring along the school flag?”
“Because this isn’t the school camp,” answered Roy. “It’s a private affair. We must have a flag of our own.”
“With the name of the camp on it,” said Dick. “By the way, what is the name of the camp?” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry's Island — 4. Camp Torohadik (1908)

“ There were plenty of signs of former occupancy; here and there benches had been built between a couple of neighborly trees; some wooden pegs driven into the trunk above one of these benches showed where during the spring camping the towels had been hung. ”

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