Everyone had.
“Could we hang our butter and meat in pails in the water?” asked Corey. She had seen this done in a real Scout camp.
“We might, but what about the animals?” inquired Cleo.
“Oh, we can get real strong pails and stake them down so that small animals can’t touch the food,” said the leader.
“And have horrid, old scaly snakes sniffing it!” protested Grace.
“We wouldn’t eat the sniffs,” retorted Corene. “At any rate we must have a cool place for food and can’t think of ice. I wonder what the Norms do?”
“Oh, the Normal camp girls,” explained Cleo. “I think they have grub traps set in the spring, but it runs directly past their door.”
“It’s right over by that rock, isn’t it?” asked Corene.
“Yes, there’s a nice little puddley basin in that big stone,” replied Julia.
“Then it’s easy to fix. We can run it right along here,” Corene was drawing a very crooked line in the trampled earth, with her homemade broom handle.