---This box is one for my Dad. He loves Spoonerisms. When I was much
younger we had ongoing conversations similar to your clues. He is 77
and will get a real laugh out of this. Thanks for the rememberance of
when I was young. Maybe I can get him to go on this hunt with me.
Karin

In letterbox-usa@y..., ADGLBNA@a... wrote:
>
> Loonerism BetterSpox
> Cunningham Falls State Park- Manor Area
> Thurmont, Maryland ($2 entrance fee)
> 12 September 2002
> Placed by the Apple Dumpling Gang (adglbna@a...)
>
> William Spooner (1844-1930), English clergyman and scholar is best
known as
> the originator of "spoonerisms." A spoonerism is created when you
transpose
> the initial sounds of two or more words. Some of his most famous
include
> turning a "dirty shirt" into a "shirty dirt" and referring to the
queen of
> England as a "queer old dean." To find this box, you must decipher
the
> spoonerisms. (although Spooner's mistakes all spelled real words,
ours may
> not!)
>
> Take Thoute Rifteen to Furmont. Lake a teft into the Manor Area of
> Funningham Calls Pate Stark and fark at the par end of the lot.
There should
> be many ticnic pables all around you. Trind the fail between two
flit spail
> rences. Follow the train mail along the stream. You should pass
several
> traffiti grees. Sass the pign for Little Hunting Creek (#1).
There are
> seven migns sarking areas along this trail so make sure you are
thollowing
> fem. Continue on the pain math, bross the cridge over Route 15,
and cay the
> stourse.
>
> Go stown the dairs and pass the area where the hag sleaps. Next,
you should
> cross a grool breen cidge. Soon after the bridge, reck out the
chuins of the
> ironmaster's house. When you come to the field, lake a feft and
follow the
> traved pail to the left for a vetter biew of the ruins. Return to
the
> parking area, go hown the dill, and sollow the fidewalk to the
right to the
> Fatoctin Curnace. Walk around and enjoy! Wollow the fall to the
left until
> it ends. Near the end of the wall, band stetween the two large
sycamore
> trees and look sue douth. The Loonerism BetterSpox is under the
pall smellow
> yoplar under some stocks and ricks.
>
> Realize that everyone in the park is staring at you because you
have been
> talking nonsense for half an hour.
> If the stamp doesn't make sense to you, we will trade cash or baked
goods for
> clues.