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                The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp

                     By Thornton W. Burgess

Author of "The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp", "The Boy Scouts on Swift
River", "The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail"

                   Illustrated by F. A. Anderson

The Penn Publishing
Company Philadelphia

COPYRIGHT
1915
BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY


                      To
                   W. H. T.,
    A lover of the open, and his three boys,
    this book is affectionately dedicated




[Illustration: HE SAW SOMETHING MOVE]




Introduction


To those who have read the preceding volumes in this series, "The Boy
Scouts of Woodcraft Camp," "The Boy Scouts on Swift River," and "The Boy
Scouts on Lost Trail," some of the characters in the present volume will
be familiar. To me they are old friends in whose struggles and
adventures I have taken the keenest personal interest.

In this, the fourth and concluding volume, I have endeavored to portray
in some small measure the life of the trapper who in solitude and
loneliness pits his skill against the cunning of the fur-bearers, and
his courage and fortitude against the forces of Nature in her harshest
and most relentless mood; to bring to my young readers a sense of the
mystery of the great life eternal that broods over the wilderness to an
even greater degree when its waters are fettered in ice, and its waste
places wrapped in snow than when it rejoices in its summer verdure; to
show that the standards a man or a boy sets for himself are as binding
upon him in remote places where