Umphrey's McGee Essays

  • Nothing Out of the Ordinary

    830 Words  | 2 Pages

    Once everyone caught word of the news we all met up in our silenced construction site from earlier that summer, we had built the ultimate hide out concealed within the forest. Hunter, the oldest boy in our group said he gathered us here for a journey but we cannot tell a soul of it, it was dangerous and if we were too chicken to follow through he suggested that we back out then and there. Everyone looked around stricken with curiosity and stayed put to hear the story from the grinning puppet master

  • Robert Willian Service

    1412 Words  | 3 Pages

    Glasgow. Over the years Service traveled to western Canada and Yukon. He met some very interesting people and fell in love with their stories. These people and their stories helped him to think of things to write about, such as the Cremation of Sam Mcgee, A Mediocre Man, The Spell Of Yukon, and many others. Before Service’s poems became famous, he offered to give a publisher one hundred of his own dollars so that his poems could be put into a book. But even before he offered this to the publisher,