Around the Camp-fire

The Camp on Beardsley Brook.Page 27 (Frontispiece.)

Around the Camp-fire

BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS, M.A., F.R.S.C.

ILLUSTRATED
BY
CHARLES COPELAND

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1896,
By Thomas Y. Crowell & Company.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I. 1
Off to the Squatooks.—The Panther at the Parsonage.—Bear vs. Birch-Bark
CHAPTER II. 27
The Camp on Beardsley Brook.—A Tiger’s Plaything.—A Fight with the Hounds of the Sea.—The Bull and the Leaping-Pole.—Saved by the Cattle
CHAPTER III. 66
At Camp de Squatook.—A Night Encounter.—Bruin and the Cook.—An Encounter with Peccaries.—Idyl of Lost Camp.—The Cart before the Steer
CHAPTER IV. 116
More of Camp de Squatook.—Lou’s Clarionet.—Jake Dimball’s Wooden Leg.—Peril among the Pearls.—The Dogs of the Drift.—Ben Christie’s Bull Caribou.—Labrador Wolves
CHAPTER V. 177
Squatook River and Horton Branch.—Wrecked in a Boom-House
CHAPTER VI. 195
The Camp on Squatook River.—Saved by a Sliver.—Skidded Landing.—A Mad Stallion.—An Adventure with a Bull Moose.—Dan
CHAPTER VII. 237
The Camp on the Toledi.—Tracked by a Panther.—An Adventure in the Florida Hummocks.—The Junior Latin Scholarship.—A Bull and the Bicycle.—The Den of the Gray Wolf
CHAPTER VIII. 289
The Toledi and Temiscouata.—Chopping him Down.—A Rude Awakening.—Saved by a Hornets’ Nest
CHAPTER IX. 315
The Last Camp-fire.—Indian Devils.—Bruin’s Boxing-Match.—The Raft Rivals
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
The Camp on Beardsley Brook (Frontispiece).
“I could hear the Animal plunging in Pursuit” 19
“Laboriously, very Deliberately, I got My Sight” 32
“I was forced to leap Desperately” 48
“With the next Thrust I slid like Lightning down the Middle Channel” 78
Bruin and the Cook 83
“I emptied My Revolvers rapidly, and half a dozen Animals dropped” 94
“It seemed to strike Him as decidedly Queer” 140
“From a Giant Limb overhead Her Long Tawny Body flashed in the Sunligh
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