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He was talking like that all the way round to the other side of the lake. Over there the woods are thick. We stood looking across the water at the camp -- all we could see were the lights and the camp-fire blazing. We could see it upside down in the water.
I said, "That big light is the cooking shack. Now you just look to the left of that. Do you see a little bit of a light? That's outside my patrol cabin. The three cabins of our troop are there. They're just a little way up the hill from the camp. They're just outside the inside. You never came up there like we asked you to."