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Transcriber’s Notes:
The author, Daniel Carter Beard, founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 (later renamed the Boy Pioneers of America), which was merged into the Boy Scouts of America when that organization was founded in 1910.
Another similarly title book by the same author contains a subset of the material in this book: D. C. Beard, The Jack of All Trades: Fair Weather Ideas, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1904.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text just before the index and relabeled consecutively through the document.
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.
Punctuation and figure captions have been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typos have been corrected.