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    Viking Camp
    Viking Camp
    Viking Camp
    Ebook38 pages31 minutes

    Viking Camp

    By Mark Fitzgerald

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    A story about really brave Boy Scouts on an island in a lake in North Texas where it is really hot and there are loads of snakes and bugs and machete wielding drug dealers
    and Girl Scouts.

    An adventure story. For all ages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Fitzgerald
    Release dateAug 11, 2011
    ISBN9781465927460
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      Viking Camp - Mark Fitzgerald

      Viking Camp

      Mark Fitzgerald

      Copyright 2010 by Mark Fitzgerald

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      Chapter One

      It was to be spoken of for fifty years to come. Twenty years already now, since it happened, it is retold to each incoming group their very first night. It was historic. It was heroic.

      But we'll get to that part later.

      First, we have to do what they call in high school English, the exposition of the antecedent action. I have to tell you about the things that happened before it. The other things that happened on that island in Texas.

      Two summers before, Parker took the job, not to be part of the rugged outdoors but, to be close to Carla; who was also going to spend five blistering weeks at this Boy Scout camp by a lake in North Texas. As were a good half dozen other theatre students from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.

      Not that they saw much of each other over the five weeks, in the end.

      The program had a number of outposts which the Scouts would visit, one after the other, until they had completed their week in the wilderness. Parker's was Viking Camp.

      Parker didn't know jack about Vikings. That was the province of Steve. Steve was the college professor who came to the island every year to teach the boys and girls all about Vikings; just as he did for university students the rest of the year. But at Viking Camp you also ate like a Viking. And slept like a Viking . And probably smelled like a Viking. AND you fought like a Viking…. to the death!

      That first year Parker was the second in command, after Steve, and before his three assistants. Which meant he did most of the hard work. The hard work was clearing the battleground of the last years undergrowth and cutting the paths to the porta potties for a week before the first campers arrived. Followed, for five weeks, by preparing two meals a day for forty starving boys and girls, teaching

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