Roy Blakeley's Roundabout Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

So now you know the way we hike. Sometimes even it's worse than that. Tom Slade (he's camp assistant) says it's best to have a destination when you start. But if you have a destination when you start, what's the use of going anywhere? What's the use of going to a destination if you've got one already? I should worry about the Handbook. But anyway you needn't write to me to ask if you can go on one of my special crazy hikes next summer because already nine Scouts want to go. Even now I could tell you what kind of a one it's going to be, only I won't. You just wait.

We got to Catskill half an hour before it was time for the train and we went to the Polar Ice Cream Parlor and had ice cream. I treated them to regular fifteen cent plates of ice cream, not cones. It says in there _Get a Polar cone_. _It's a bear._ Believe me, the fifteen cent plates are elephants. That ice cream place is a branch of Temple Camp.