I have been trying to do the Melancholy Mountian hike & Cache
for the last several years, and I finally got to do it, so i
thought I would drop a new cache to encourage other to venture out
to the area. Cache is a small loc-n-loc hanging in a tree.FTF is a
Timmies on me
For anyone interested in the Story of Melancholy Mountian:
From the GCH6WQ Melancholy Cache Logs of CasheKicker &
Vege
"Tragedy struck on April 11, 1842. John Meagher was in bed with
the measles. His wife was tending a newborn baby. The two sisters,
Margaret, aged 4, and Jane Elizabeth, just 6, wandered off into the
deeply forested woods near Lake Loon. By late afternoon when the
children had not returned, a hired hand went to look for them. The
father got out of his sick bed and joined neighbours in a frantic
search for the little girls. Their bodies were found April 17, just
over three kilometres from their home. They had huddled together,
trying to protect each other from the elements and wild animals,
but they died of exposure. The hill on which they were found is
known as Melancholy Mountain and is situated not far from Lake
Major. The two girls are buried side by side in Dartmouth's
Woodlawn Cemetery." As excerpted from "One City, Many Communities",
by Alfreda Withrow.
The Poem (Author Unknown):
The Babes in the Wood
My dear do you know,
How a long time ago,
Two poor little children,
Whose names I don't know,
Were stolen away
On a fine summers day,
And left in a wood,
As I've heard people say,
Poor babes in the wood! poor babes in the wood!
Oh! don't you remember the babes in the wood?
And when it was night,
So sad was their plight,
The sun it went down,
And the moon gave no light!
They sobbed and they sighed,
And they bitterly cried,
And the poor little things,
They lay down and died.
Poor babes in the wood! poor babes in the wood!
Oh! don't you remember the babes in the wood?
And when they were dead,
The robins so red,
Brought strawberry leaves,
And over them spread;
And all the day long,
The branches among,
They mournfully whistled,
And this was their song;
Poor babes in the wood! poor babes in the wood!
Oh! don't you remember the babes in the wood?
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