The scoutmaster

[pnutts]

  Our Scoutmaster told us all to write to our parents in case you saw

the  flood on TV and worried.  We are OK.  Only one of  our tents and

two sleeping bags got washed away.  Luckily, none of us  got drowned

because we were all up on the mountain  looking for Chad when it

happened.

 

  Oh yes, please call Chad's mother and tell her that  he's OK.  He

can't  write because of the cast. I got to ride on one of  the search

and rescue  jeeps. It was neat. We never would have found him in  the

dark if it hadn't  been for the lightning.   Scoutmaster Webb got mad

at Chad for going on a hike  alone without  telling anyone.  Chad said

he did tell him, but it  was during the  fire so he probably didn't

hear him.

 

Did you know  that if you put a gas  can on a fire, the gas can will

blowup?  Billy is going to look weird  until his hair grows back.  We

will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Webb gets the car fixed. It

wasn't his fault about the wreck.  The brakes worked  OK when we left.

 

  Scoutmaster Webb said that with a car that old you  to have to

expect something to break down; that's probably why he can't get

insurance  on it. We think it's a neat car.  He doesn't care if  we

get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us ride in the

tailgate. It gets pretty hot  with ten people in a car.

 

   Scoutmaster Webb is a neat guy. Don't  worry, he is a good driver.

In fact, he is teaching Terry how to drive. But he  only lets him

drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any traffic.  All we

ever see up there  are logging trucks.

 

  Guess what?  We have all passed our first aid merit  badges. When

Dave dove in the lake and cut his arm, we got to see  how a tourniquet

works.

 

   Also, Wade and I threw up.  Scoutmaster Webb said  it probably was

just food poisoning from  the leftover chicken. He  said they got sick

that  way with the food they ate in prison.

 

  I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster.  He said he sure

figured out how to get things done better while he  was doing his

time.

 

  I have to go now. We are going into town to mail our  letters and

buy bullets.  Don't worry about anything.  We are fine.

 

  Love,  Johnny

 

   P. S.  How long has it been since I had a tetanus  shot?

 

 

 

( sadly the situations could be true - an ex-con a scoutmaster, bad car, fires, etc. )