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