RURAL NEW-YORKER 
409 
What the Poseyville Gang Did 
By Harry R. O’Brien 
Poseyville is one of the many Iowa 
towns that started to he a city, but lost 
its ambition when the first hundred folks 
settled upon its treeless avenues. In 
fact it is just little more than a cross¬ 
roads. with a few trees around it. <*i store 
or two and a Metho¬ 
dist church. 
The livest part of the 
town is the boys, plus 
the Methodist preacher. 
Some of the boys live 
in town, but .some of 
them live right out on 
the farms nearby. They 
are as dyed-in-the-rvool 
farmer boys as you 
could find. None of 
them is concerned with 
problems of life, and re¬ 
sponsibilities other than 
doing the chores and 
helping at home rest 
but lightly on their 
shoulders. They are a mixi'd gang of 
boys, mixed in age, race, disposition and 
occasionally mixed up in quite a num¬ 
ber of other things that are less peaceful. 
It was hot last Summer. !Men left 
their collars off, women left more than 
their collars, and as for the poor I’osey- 
ville boys who did not have a decent 
swimmin’ hole for nigh onto live miles— 
well, you can imagine. When the 
rooster in the barnyard is so parched 
and dry that he can no longer announce 
sunrise, what is a gang 
of boys going to do 
without a swimmin* 
hole and not even a de¬ 
cent shade tree*? 
Now here is where 
the Methodist preacher 
who was the livest 
thing in town, along 
with the boys, came in. 
lie is a modest young 
fellow, and he does not 
want his name used in 
this story. But the 
story is just as good a 
story without it. 
The gang was down¬ 
cast those hot days be- 
c.au.se the water was so 
far away, when along came the preatdicr 
one day and proposed that every one of 
the 12 boys in the I’oseyville gang go 
for a camping party for a week, out by 
the river several miles away. In less 
time than you could say “.Tack Robin¬ 
son,” the gang had Hie whole thing 
planned out and were ready to start. 
There was a jovial, good-natured Ger¬ 
man in Poseyville named Max, who had 
a little car that could easily haul two 
people. He agreed to take the boys out 
to the camping ground. Every one of 
those 12 boys and the preacher too. all 
rode on the first trip made. A Ford is 
a regular .Jonah—or a whale—for carry- j 
ing things, so the boys perched on. from 
the radiator to the exhaust. A home¬ 
made trailer for the tents and grub was 
fastened on behind and more of the boys 
perched on it. 
The tent for the whole crowd was 
10 b.v 12 in size. The beds were made 
of the ‘‘small branches of trees,” as ad¬ 
vised in one of those 
“Camping Made Easy*’ 
guide books written in 
the tenth story of a 
a man 
who never camped. “,So 
soothing and restful” 
did this sort of bed 
prove to be that after 
the first night the boys 
slept on the ground, 
and sideways at that. 
At the very first meal 
—and I have it on the 
authority of the preach¬ 
er—those 12 boys and 
the preacher ate up al¬ 
most, every bit of provisions that had 
been expected to last all w(‘ek. Max had 
gone back to town with his auto, so it 
was necessary to make three trips for 
grub that week, “a la foot.” Some hogs 
came to camp when they were gone and 
ate up all their eggs and potatoes. 
Rut there were always fish fi'om the 
river when they could catch them. Lit¬ 
tle .Tim burnt his log with hot gi'case 
trying to fry them. Ole had been 
warned by his mother to stay away fi-om 
the water, .so when he 
w e 11 t down with a 
bucket, he promiitly fell 
ill and had to be fished 
put. It rained twice 
during the week, both 
times just before meal 
time, and soaked both 
clothes and their sup¬ 
pers. Rut they did not 
mind little things like 
these. 
It was the fan of 
the thing, and the 
signaling part of the 
fun that almost took 
fir.st honors from the 
swimmin’ hole. E a c h 
morning after the swim, the boys would 
be divided into two groups, and an hour 
devoted to signaling with flags. No 
boys were ever prouder of an achieve¬ 
ment than was station “A” when sta¬ 
tion “R” on (Continued on page 412) 
Before the Start 
Putting ’em On 
Flag Signaling; Station A 
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