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Title: The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

Author: Various

Editor: Franklin K. Mathiews

Release Date: August 29, 2008 [EBook #26475]

Language: English

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THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF CAMPFIRE STORIES

[Illustration: THERE, STANDING KNEE-DEEP IN THE WATER, WAS THE BIGGEST
AND BLACKEST MOOSE IN THE WORLD]

THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF CAMPFIRE STORIES

EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

FRANKLIN K. MATHIEWS

CHIEF SCOUT LIBRARIAN,
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

PUBLISHED FOR

THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

[Illustration]

D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY
INCORPORATED
NEW YORK 1933

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof,
must not be reproduced in any form without
permission of the publishers.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

THE campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and
story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the
heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the
lips. The Boy Scouts of America has incorporated the "campfire" in its
program for council and friendship and story-telling. In one volume, the
_Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories_ makes available to scoutmasters
and other leaders a goodly number of stories worthy of their attention,
and when well told likely to arrest and hold the interest of boys in
their early teens, when "stirs the blood--to bubble in the veins."

At this time, when the boy is growing so rapidly in brain and body, he
can have no better teacher than some mighty woodsman. Now should be
presented to him stirring stories of the adventurous lives of men who
live in and love the out-of-doors. Says Professor George Wal