After watching a documentary about skiing, Leper had decided to go enlist. After watching the documentary Leper explained to Finny and I that he know knew what racing skiing was all about. He had told us that "Its alright to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the other things when you've got to be in a hurry." As Leper is talking, he soon connects it to the war. He told us "...when you're in a War you've got to be in a hurry." Normally I only focused on Leper's stories with one ear while I did my thinking with the other. This story, it was different, it had way more meaning than all the others. Leper's story really intrigued me into listening to it. It was now a week later, and Leper had gone off to war.
(This reminds me of the documentary on racing skiing
Leper was watching just a week ago.)
Not long after Leper had gone, Finny decided we needed to have the annual Devon Winter Carnival. Although myself and the rest of the other Devon boys knew such a thing did not exist, Finny told us it does not. "'There isn't any Devon Winter Carnival and never has been.' 'There is now.'" The carnival included many stupid things, it was not much of a carnival, in fact, I was not even entertained. There was not much to do there, just a ski jump and Finny came up with useless ideas for prizes. For example, cider.
(This is exactly what the cider looked like that we had at
the carnival as a prize.)
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