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crawfisher of the camp. She caught more than fifty in one evening.
We picked Tuesday morning until 10:30 and it started to rain, so we
left the hop-field and went back to camp. It rained the rest of the day
and also on Wednesday. We had good weather thereafter and most of
the girls picked pretty hard.
In the evening we would sit around the bonfire and sing songs.
The Chinese people would come up to our camp every evening and
they would sing songs for us.
Messrs. McNary and Stoltz paid visits to our bonfires. Mr. Mc
Nary’s favorite songs were “ Napanee” and “ Silver Bell.”
Lyda Bauer, Maggie Johnson and Amanda Liljegren were noted as
the best pickers of the school girls. There were more than fifty dif
ferent families in the field including the Chinese people.
On Wednesday, Sept. 17th, all of the girls returned from the hop-
field. We all enjoyed ourselves and had a good time. We thank our
good Superintendent for giving us the opportunity to work out and
earn a little money for ourselves during our vacation days.
I live in the extreme north-western part of Washington, a little be
low Cape Flattery in a little village called Quileute. Most of the peo
ple took up the Christian religion just as soon as our white brothers
found us. This was some thirty years ago.
The country is quite warm in summer and has an abundance of rain,
but little snow in winter. The people are not wealthy. Their only
time of making money is in the summer when the harvesting is being
done, and when fish are running. Fishing depends upon the condition
of weather and tides.
A few years ago they used to go into the sea in open canoes to fish,
but the encroachment of civilization ruined the business. Launches
have taken the place of canoes. It is the same way with traveling.
Wagons and horses have taken the place of old Indian custom of going
about on foot.
7th
All the students of Chemawa went to the Oregon State Fair, which
was held in Salem. They report a delightful day.
The seventh grade class of the first division was glad to have Clyde
Fields enter its ranks. We now have only two vacant seats in the room.
6th
Chemawa is a school which raises an abundance of fruit, apples, pears,
prunes, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, and loganberries. After
the school closed in June the girls canned strawberries and loganberries.
Before we came back from hop-picking a majority of the small girls