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  [Illustration: 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
