Chapter 34 β The Stopover
On the fourth day we had been on the trail, we arrived at a place where water was plentiful and grazing was good. The stock were starting to need a day to rest up and graze. Sue decided that we should layover a day and let the stock graze, get ourselves cleaned up and since there was good water, wash our clothes and rest awhile.
It was early afternoon when we arrived, we unloaded the mules and set up camp. Gloria and I watered the mules, picketed them in a field next to our camp and closely inspected each animal as we curried them.
Sue, Linda and Amelia set up the camp and killed the last two of the chickens we had brought with us, for our dinner. After this we would be on trail rations, bacon, dried goat and venison, corn mush and mint tea. Linda started a squash stew with the last of the fresh squash we had and Sue decided to stew the chickens, since they were laying hens and not pullets.
By the time Gloria and I finished up with the stock and got back to camp the food was cooking and smelled wonderful. I set up a place to sleep at the edge of the trees where Sue had pitched the camp. Gloria and I swept the ground and filled in the dips with dry sand and I set my saddle and gear set up so I could lean against my saddle and watch the stock. Gloria set her saddle up next to mine and sat down with me.
I looked at Gloria, she was bedraggled and her shirt was streaked with dried sweat, she grinned at me and said, "I think I'm going to have a bath before dinner. You want to bathe?"
I looked at her and smiled, "Yes, but Gloria, we need a chaperone. You're still not Bahia yet."
Gloria blushed and said, "I just wanted to get clean Josh. I didn't mean we'd...." she left off the last and ducked her eyes down and added, "Not really."
I laughed at her and pulled her hat down over her blushing face. "Let's see who can join us?" I got up and went to the fire where Amelia, Linda and Sue were working on dinner. "Do we have the time to take a bath before dinner? Gloria wants to bathe and I need to wash some clothes for tomorrow."
Amelia looked up and said, "There is plenty of time until the chicken is ready. I think I'll just wait and watch the chicken, Sue why don't you go with them and keep an eye on Gloria?"
Sue looked up at me and smiled, "Let me get my washing and towel. I smell like a horse and could use a bath." She stood up and stretched her arms over her head, "My back's a little sore, do you think you could give me a massage, Josh?"
"Sure Sue, be happy to, but after we bathe, eh?"
Linda looked up at me and grinned, "If you're giving out massages Josh, I could use one too."
I grinned at her, "May be tomorrow Linda, I want to get some sleep tonight."
Linda looked at me and grinned, "Oh I won't keep you up, Josh. That's not my intention at all." She smirked and Amelia laughed.
Sue, Gloria and I went and got our washing and towels then walked down to the stream that flowed from the hills on the west. It was a small stream and shallow. It took us some time to find a deeper pool where the water was knee deep down stream from the camp.
Sue spread her blanket in the dappled shade and sat down to take off her boots. Linda and Gloria sat and did the same while I took my washing to the side of the stream and started to make a rock pool in the shallows.
The stream was running with a good current and when I tossed my clothes in the rocky enclosure and pushed them down into the water, they were pushed to the downstream side of the pool. I got out my soap and began to wash my shorts and socks with soap.
The women, behind me, were talking and Linda laughed but I didn't pay any attention to them, I was humming a little happy tune, figuring that I'd have Linda on her back in a few hours and was thinking about her soft breasts as I slipped out of my shirt and pants, putting them into my washing pool. I got my socks and shorts washed and put them in the pool to be rinsed by the water that ran through my pool.
By the time that I had finished my shirts and pants I heard Sue ask me, "Josh, I forgot my soap, can you give me some?"
I turned and there in front of my face was Sue's wooly bush about a foot from my face. I looked up, between her breasts, at her eyes, which were sparkling, and saw that she was smiling at me. Linda and Gloria were washing themselves in the stream. Linda had her hands on her breasts and was teasing her nipples as she told Gloria, "Like this, tease and pull," she pulled her nipples out and rolled them between her fingers.
I couldn't see what Gloria was doing, Gloria's smooth little bottom and slim back made me start a little. I had seen Gloria naked several times in the bathhouse but in the light of day she looked older and I reminded myself that she was still too young.
I looked back at Sue and handed her my soap. Sue grinned at me and said, "I was hoping you'd apply it too, Josh." She grinned at me, I stood up and swallowed, Sue had never asked me to wash her before. She winked at me and whispered, "Yes Josh, come wash me."
Sue was about thirty-five and she was tough as a boot, but she was at the age where she loved to fuck. She was kind of compact and solid, smallish breasts and small tight nipples of pink tipped her firm breasts. I had had a hard-on for Sue for a long time.
I grinned at her and glanced over to see what Linda and Gloria were doing. Linda had her soapy hand on her crotch and was stroking her clit, saying, "There just softly rub." Gloria was evidently rubbing her crotch too and making little noises as she explored herself.
I looked at Sue and smiled, "Let me wash these shorts and I'll be right with you."
Sue rubbed the soap over her breasts and handed me back the soap, "I'll just wait over there," she indicated the direction with a tilt of her head.
I slipped out of the shorts I was wearing and said, "I'll be there in just a moment," and squatted down to wash my shorts.