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
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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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