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THE MOOSE WAS NOW SNORTING LIKE A WAR-HORSE BENEATH.
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CAMP AND TRAIL
A Story of the Maine Woods
BY
ISABEL HORNIBROOK
AUTHOR OF "TUKE," "IN THE SERVICE," "LOST IN MAINE WOODS," ETC.
BOSTON
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
1897
TYPOGRAPHY BY C.J. PETERS & SON, BOSTON.
PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH.
TO
J.L.H.
PREFACE.
In adding another to the list of stories bearing on that subject ofperennial interest to boys, adventures in camp and on trail among thewoods and lakes of Northern Maine, one thought has been the inspirationthat led me on.
It is this: To prove to high-mettled lads, American, and English aswell, that forest quarters, to be the most jovial quarters on earth,need not be made a shambles. Sensation may reach its finest pitch,excitement be an unfailing fillip, and fun the leaven which leavens thecamping-trip from start to finish, even though the triumph of killingfor triumph's sake be left out of the play-bill.
"There is a higher sport in preservation than in destruction," says aveteran hunter, whose forest experiences and descriptions have in partenriched this story. I commend the opinion to boy-readers, trusting thatthey may become "queer specimen sportsmen," after the pattern of CyrusGarst; and find a more entrancing excitement in studying the live wildthings of the forest than in gloating over a dying tremor, or examininga senseless mass of horn, hide, and hoofs, after the life-spring whichworked the mechanism has been stilled forever.
One other desire has trodden on the heels of the first: That YoungEngland and Young America may be inspired with a wish to understand eachother better, to take each other frankly and simply for the manhood ineach; and that thus misconception and prejudice may disappear like mistsof an old-day dream.
ISABEL HORNIBROOK.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I. JACKING FOR DEER
II. A SPILL-OUT
III. LIFE IN A BARK HUT
IV. WHITHER BOUND?
V. A COON HUNT
VI. AFTER BLACK DUCKS
VII. A FOREST GUIDE-POST
VIII. ANOTHER CAMP
IX. A SUNDAY AMONG THE PINES
X. FORWARD ALL!
XI. BEAVER WORKS
XII. "GO IT, OLD BRUIN!"
XIII. "THE SKIN IS YOURS"
XIV. A LUCKY HUNTER
XV. A FALLEN KING
XVI. MOOSE-CALLING
XVII. HERB'S YARNS
XVIII. To LONELIER WILDS
XIX. TREED BY A MOOSE
XX. DOL'S TRIUMPH
XXI. ON KATAHDIN
XXII. THE OLD HOME-CAMP
XXIII. BROTHERS' WORK
XXIV. "KEFPING THINGS EVEN"
XXV. A LITTLE CARIBOU QUARREL
XXVI. DOC AGAIN
XXVII. CHRISTMAS ON THE OTHER SIDE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE MOOSE WAS NOW SNORTING LIKE A WAR-HORSE BENEATH.
"THERE IS MOOSEHEAD LAKE."
DOL SIGHTS A FRIENDLY CAMP.
IN THE SHADOW OF KATAHDIN.
"GO IT, OLD BRUIN! GO IT WHILE YOU CAN!"
"HERB HEAL."
A FALLEN KING.
THE CAMP ON MILLINOKETT LAKE.
"HERB CHARGED THROUGH THE CHOKING DUST-CLOUDS."
GREENVILLE,--"FAREWELL TO THE WOODS."
CAMP AND TRAIL.