The Gavelyte, September 1906

lf:i5 . THE GAVELYTE, students, including both boys and eluded to stop and begun preparation girls collected for a chicken roast. for a bountiful feast of roast chick- It seemed as though the residents j en· . of Cedarville have a vivid conception 1 · Thro~gh the exc1tment and hurry of what is meant when they hear of , in startmg from town no one thought the college students preparing for a I of taking fuel for the fire ~o we -were chicken roast, from the precautions compelled to borrow a pile of wood they took to protect their chicks on I from a near-by farmer. While the Monday night. Some locked them up, 1 ehickens w2re being dressed by some some watched them while others are of the hoys the others started a fire. regreting that they had not, but in Wheh all the chickem, were dressed spite of this the boys were sly enough they were bung on a wire and held to capture about a dozen of the over the fire. Then was the beginning coveted birds. of the chicken roast. Shortly after eight o'clock the After patiently waiting for an hour crowd .<:liaperoned by Philip Dixon or so some of the crowd became so and Harry Alexander, left the village I exhau.:;ted from their nocturnal ram– for a guiet place in the country, fol-1 ble and so hungry for the hand earn– lowing the railroad for about a mile ed chicken they concluded the chick– and a half they come to what is ens were done. When they were known as "the big fill," there they taken off the fire, carved and passed left the railroad and broke for the around we had more chickens than woods. ThP boys were confronted by something worse than a Chinese puzzle when it came to getting the girls through over or under the Page fence along the railroad, but after half an hours coaxing the girls were persuaded to make the attempt and all succ~eding without fatal injury to either themselves or the fence. Won– dering down along the creek through the wiltlerness which, with only the light (If a few stars, seemed worse than t.hP jun1;les of Africa, we came to a larg;P oak Ln 1 0, LlwrP w0 eon- we could eat for what was not cover– ed with ashes or burnt was only about semi-cooked. About ten thirty we left for town. One of the crowd inform– ed us that at the far corner of the woods was a gate which would avoid the adversity of that fence. The in– formation was gladly accepted alld we proceeded in that direction. The gate being locked we were compeled to climb over. Others proceeded through a corn field where thev found a gate which let them on t.h~ railroad once more. Although some vrere late for brec.k-