GATEWAY PARK - Got Skates? Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/7/2004
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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FTF: March 9, 2004 by HeadLlama.

Gateway Park, Silverdale, WA. - 98383.
Bring your own pen(cil) to sign this logbook.
I don't have bread and cheese for your whine!
If you can't find it, maybe it wasn't your lucky day.

And Now For Something Completely Different!
The following is just a bit of historical trivia to amuse you, since some of us never really know the sources of some adages, well known sayings and nursery rhymes.

"RING AROUND A ROSEY" --- Author: Unknown

Ring around a rosey,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes, ashes (or Achoo, achoo)
We all fall down.
       The foregoing rhyme was taught to English children by those who survived the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death, so they would know it's visible symptoms and the dangers of having contact with it's victums.
       Keep in mind that at that time, knowledge of germs and viruses did not exist. Medical thought at the time was that flowers or posies would purify the air of its bad humors.
       "Ring around a rosey," refers to a pinkish circle that would form on a victims body prior to turning black. "Ashes, ashes" refers to burning those things that belonged to a person that had died of the plague.
       The alternative, "Achoo, Achoo", refers to sneezing which is said to occur just prior to death.
       "We all fall down" relates to what most folk experienced if they fell victim to the bubonic plague -- death.

Last Edited / Updated: 05:20:02 PM Sat, Sep 06 2014.

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