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Title: The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire
or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol

Author: Herbert Carter

Release Date: January 24, 2007 [EBook #20434]

Language: English

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The Boy Scouts'
First Camp Fire

OR

Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol.

BY HERBERT CARTER

Author of "The Boy Scouts In the Blue Ridge," "The Boy
Scouts On the Trail," "The Boy Scouts In the Maine
Woods," "The Boy Scouts Through the
Big Timber," "The Boy Scouts
In the Rockies."

[Illustration: A. L. BURT COMPANY

NEW YORK]

Copyright 1913

BY A. L. BURT COMPANY

* * * * *

THE BOY SCOUTS' FIRST CAMP FIRE.

[Illustration: The announcement of the bear by Davy Jones was succeeded
by a mad scramble of every boy to reach a place of safety. Page 48.

_The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire._]

THE BOY SCOUTS'
FIRST CAMP-FIRE.

CHAPTER I.

A HALT BY THE ROADSIDE.

"Tara--tara!"

Loud and clear sounded the notes of a bugle, blown by a very stout lad,
clad in a new suit of khaki; and who was one of a bunch of Boy Scouts
tramping wearily along a dusty road.

"Good for you, Bumpus! Can't he just make that horn talk, though?" cried
one.

"Sounds as sweet as the church bell at home, fellows!" declared a
second.

"Say, Mr. Scout-Master, does that mean a halt for grub?" a third called
out.

"Sure, Giraffe. Brace up old fellow. You'll have your jaws working right
soon, now. And here's a dandy little spring, right among the trees! How
shady and cool it looks, Thad."

"That's why we kept on for an hour after noon," remarked the boy called
Thad, and who seemed to be a person of some authority; "when all you
scouts wanted to stop and rest. You see Davy, Allan here, and myself
made a note of that same spring the other day, when we came along on
horseback, spyin