Jeff Faces a Major Setback in his Snipe Quest

Camper Jeff ran into some technical difficulties in his Snipe hunt. While hiding in the bushes like we had taught him, he heard an animal rustling nearby and so he stealthily stalked it and pounced. Fortunately he bagged what he thought was a rare black and white striped snipe quickly so he limited the amount of spray that hit him to a minimum. The 40 gallon tomato juice bath helped with the smell but I'm afraid Jeff's pride is still a little wounded. He was so excited when he thought he had caught a snipe and we were going along with it, unfortunately Ed, an amateur taxidermist, was visiting in the lodge when Jeff brought in his prize trophy and started laughing before we could even tell him about our "special" camper. We have not seen Jeff for the last 24 hours but have heard his snipe calls incessantly all over the camp grounds. I'm afraid he won't return until he can catch himself a snipe. We are now trying to stock up on all sorts of small fury creatures that Jeff may think is a Snipe just so he can catch one and triumph once and for all. Our best effort so far is with grey squirrels because of the large population available here, just a couple drops of Super Glue and a couple sticks and instant Snipe. Counselor Mel's years in Wyoming making Jackelope wall trophies really paid off. Now that we have the "Snipes" we are trying to get the right dose of Librium, so the grey squirrels are slow enough for him to catch but not so stupid they'll fall out of the trees and hurt themselves. We did have a little problem when counselors Zac and Laura got a little too liberal with the use of the Librium, it took us almost three hours to talk Zac out of the tree and Laura is still up there. She does however help wake us all in the morning as she crows to the sunrise so it's not all bad. If we can't get her down by parents weekend, we'll have to spray.

The bad news in all of this is that camper Jeff is so entranced in his Snipe hunt that he isn't training for his events in our annual camp olympics.