Don’t Forget to record the information included with this cache for the bonus.
To read the complete Stone Soup story, complete the adventure lab stages which are located amongst the traditional and mystery caches along the same trail.
This series including traditional caches, Adventure Lab stages and a Mystery bonus cache will take you through the story of Stone Soup. Enjoy your Stone Soup.
Stone Soup is a tale of a weary traveller who arrives, hungry, in a small community. He goes door to door asking the villagers for scraps of food as he has nothing to eat. At each door he is turned away empty handed.
When he arrives at an old, lonely woman’s door he is given the same reply so he offers to share his meager food supply with her and share his stone soup. She agrees to let him use her wood stove.
Being a poor old woman she doesn’t have a good pot to make the soup so she leaves to borrow a pot from a neighbour. When she returns, the hungry neighbour returns with her. The traveler asks the newcomer to fetch some water from the local well but when the neighbour returns, a young lad is carrying the water. They put the pot on the stove and pour in the water.
The traveler goes to his pack and takes out a small package wrapped in a cloth and tied with a string. He carefully sets the package on the bench, removes the string and gently unwraps the cloth.
The lady, her neighbour and the young lad watch as the traveller gently takes out a small, ordinary looking stone and ceremoniously places it in the iron pot.
Once the pot begins to warm, the traveller makes a quiet comment to himself, but just loud enough for the others to hear, that stone soup is all the better if it has a carrot in it. The boy smiles and says that he knows where a carrot can be found. He rushes out the door, runs home to his mother and tells of the wonderful soup that is being made. They go together to the carrot patch to find a carrot to place in the soup. The two return with the carrot which the traveller carefully slices up with the knife from his sheath and the mother puts the carrot pieces into the pot.