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Our plan had been to take it easy on Friday and spend the day leisurely loading and lashing our litter so we could be on our way bright and early Saturday morning to meet Dad at the prearranged time of ten o' clock. That was the plan, but the "really great idea," wasn't quite done with our education.

At sunrise on Friday morning, before we could get up to build a fire and make breakfast, Steve and I were awakened by a strange and unfamiliar sound. A soprano hummmmmmmmmmm filled the forest. The sound was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. When the sun came up the early morning mist over the lake began to dissipate but, unlike every other day, a black swirling fog remained in the air at the far end of the lake. The fog grew as we watched and, like something alive, it rolled over itself in waves as it rose, higher and higher. The black fog continued to turn over and over on itself as it slowly flowed over the surface of the lake in our direction.

The humming was increasing in intensity when the tip of the first tentative wave of the fog arrived at our camp like I imagined the Angel of Death appeared as it rolled through Egypt. Actually, it looked exactly like what the special effects department dreamed up in the movie The Ten Commandments, a malicious flowing black fog that …show more content…

Steve and I dove off the side and slid to a painful stop on the edge of the flat as the litter, now free of our extra weight, sailed majestically into space. The entire untidy mess tumbled end over end and spread pots, frying pans, rifles, fish poles, axes and a hundred other pieces of gear all over the side of the slope when it returned to earth. It was apparently the funniest thing I had ever seen because I couldn't stop my nervous laughter as I lay there scraped and bleeding. Steve's sense of humor mirrored mine and we sat there laughing like the two fools we

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