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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.
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
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 Sunlight” 199 “At Last He looked Upward, and saw the Hunter” 221 “Mad with Pain and Fury, He sprang” 249 “Desperately I surged on the Pole” 258 “Tamang came leaping Past with the Bear at His Heels” 303 Saved by a Hornets’ Nest 313 Bruin’s Boxing Match 335 “Slowly battling with the Waves, Jake and His Precious Burden drew Near the Raft” 346
AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE.