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Title: Dave Porter At Bear Camp
The Wild Man of Mirror Lake

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers

Release Date: August 30, 2009 [EBook #29859]

Language: English

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Dave Porter at Bear Camp

[Illustration]

Edward Stratemeyer

[Illustration: OUT CAME A KETTLE, A FRYING-PAN,
SOME KNIVES AND FORKS. _Page 293._]

Dave Porter Series

DAVE PORTER AT BEAR CAMP

OR

THE WILD MAN OF MIRROR LAKE

BY

EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "The Old Glory Series,"
"Colonial Series," "Pan-American Series,"
"Soldiers of Fortune Series," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER S. ROGERS_

[Illustration]

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

_All rights reserved_

DAVE PORTER AT BEAR CAMP

Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.

PREFACE

"DAVE PORTER AT BEAR CAMP" is a complete story in itself, but
forms the eleventh volume in a line issued under the general title of
"Dave Porter Series."

As I have mentioned several times, this series was started a number of
years ago by the publication of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," in which my
young readers were introduced to a typical, wide-awake American lad at
an up-to-date American boarding school.

The publication of this first volume was followed by that of "Dave
Porter in the South Seas," whither the lad journeyed to clear up a
question concerning his parentage. Then came "Dave Porter's Return to
School," telling of more doings at Oak Hall; "Dave Porter in the Far
North," in which he went on a second journey looking for his father;
"Dave Porter and His Classmates," relating more ha