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PAGE 3 OF THE JUNE 1996 ISSUE OF PASS PATROL CAMPFIRE TALES
The issue included here has the stories and not the advertisements.  Keep in mind, these stories were written in 1996.  A lot has changed since that time.

This issue includes

Forest Road 150

Alma, New Mexico!

Dry Canyon

ALMA, NEW MEXICO - Another of the many adventures of PASS PATROL

STRANGER AT THE CORNER TABLE

The year was 1896 (or is that 1996).  It was that time of day when shadows begin to turn into darkness.  A few short minutes after the blistering sun disappears over the horizon leaving behind temperatures near 90 degrees.  A gentle breeze suddenly picked up in the distance and could be heard racing through the trees from the west.  As it crossed the road, it swirled in a circle, picked up sand and dust, scattered it across the porch of the small café in Alma, New Mexico; then it was gone.

The only sound left behind, the steady rhythm of a rocking chair creaking the weather-beaten floor of that porch, had been unaffected by the passing wind.  A middle aged lady wearing a long dress (or was it blue jeans) kept that chair rocking as she stared down the dusty trail (or was that a paved road).

Suddenly, another gust of wind picked up in the distance and headed her way.  This one picked up speed as it approached and swirled harder as it crossed the road.  The lady stopped rocking and raised her hand to protect her face from the dust.