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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Tales from a Sisters Naturalist by Jim Anderson Ode bo Dorro Sokol Dorro Sokol was a fine lady, especially when it came to making Ice Worm Cocktails. Really! Way back in the early 1990s, Dorro and a few other stalwart Sisters Country residents enrolled in Carol M o o r e h e a d ’s S i s t e r s Campus COCC Continuing Education class I was teach- ing on the Bard of the North, Robert Service. Oh, what a grand time we had sharing his poetry with one another and learning about his life. We thrilled when he took his small river boat and explored the upper reaches of the Yukon River, and began to write his immortal poetry. Two of Service’s elegant poems caught us all in the COCC class. One, “The World’s All Right,” with the powerful last stanza: The World’s all right; serene I sit, And joy that I’m a part of it; And put my trust in Nature’s plan, And try to aid her all I can; Content to pass. If in my place I’ve served the uplift of the Race. Truth! Beauty! Love! O Radiant Day — What ho! The World’s all right, I say. And the one that hit Dorro and other members of the class and me in the funny bone was, “The Ballad of the ILLUSTRATION BY CALEB ANDERSON Ice Worm Cocktail.” An Ice Worm Cocktail. We all delighted in it. That piece is one of Service’s longer works, and actually a very sneered in mockery. clever and hilarious story It was the last line in about a nimrod named Major the ballad that Dorro and I Percy Brown who came to loved, and without prompt- the Yukon to kill indigenous ing she said, “Hey, next wildlife, but ran afoul of week is the last class, let’s Barman Bill, Sheriff Black all celebrate with an Ice and his drinkin’ buddies. Worm Cocktail.” Between them they got I caught the ice worms, Major Brown talked into and bless Dorro’s fun-loving drinking the infamous soul, she brought the cock- Yukon Ice Worm Cocktail, tail glasses and the sparkling which about put poor old cider. I will never forget Brown into the grave, coax- that night as we all stood ing him along with such and toasted the Bard of the lines as: North, reciting his grand And with a roar the mob poem, and at the end, when proclaimed: “Cheechako, we all dashed our ice worm Major Brown; Reveal that cocktails down… you’re of Sourdough stuff, And ere next night and drink your cocktail his story was the talk of down.” Dawson Town; But gone The Major took another and reft of glory was the look, then quickly closed his wrathful Major Brown; For eyes; For even as he raised that ice-worm (so they told his glass he felt his gorge him) of such formidable arise; size; Was-a stick of stained Aye, even though his spaghetti with two red ink sight was sealed, in fancy spots for eyes. he could see; That grey and So long, Dorro Old Pal, greasy thing that reared and it’s been good to know ya’. 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