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over the years a ragged second-groe of the baseball diamond, has blotted out that vie to see beneath the crystalline sky but the uneven tops of second-groun to taken on the steelier tints of light of early evening, i used to stand here by the old oak and look out across an interluden of scrub and sed. as a hill it nificant enough. beloround juniper and outcroppings of granite. yet something about that hill dreo to it, (make my ranite until i stood on the very summit.) it i had to do. i could not explain et a and afternoon, our activitics or ro or playing tennis or baseball or practicing a track event or going off on nature some gadget in the carpentry shop—just so long as . but to do nothing, to climb a hill for no reason, that ainst the “camp spirit.”
saturday afternoons, ht a certain relaxation, less accountability. on one such blue and vivid afternoon i slipped aet to my hill. from the great oak, i could see its summit ahead of me, unkno. inconspicuously, i edged along the baseball field, then slipped into the underbrush.
it oing, hard to keep a sense of direction in such a tangle of vine and thicket. i stumbled over rotten logs, stepped into anthills. marsh hillocks gave ged me, prickly seeds nant. and hover-flies circling and darting, i plodded on, losing myself and losing track of time.
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