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Title: The boy's camp book; a guidebook based upon the annual encampment of a boy scout troop; the second of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cave, Edward, 1878-
Subjects: Camping Boy Scouts
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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l be sent home. And Ihope I have impressed you, in a way that you will neverforget, with the justice of that rule. Also, I trust you willtake even more pride in keeping yourselves well, as the goodsentry keeps himself awake and alert. Talks over. Ten minutes to examine the arrangementof the Red Cross tent — from the outside — and for askingquestions. Then there will be some more examinations bythe Scout Master, and I will take those not being examinedon a tree hike. Ten minutes later, and — Fishing! says Nick. OrI should say fish-worms. No time to fish before dinner,and no use going, anyhow — the fish wont bite this time ofday. But we can get our bait. Nothing better doing incamp this afternoon, till swimming time. Come on, youfellows off duty — Im so full of sanitary ideas Ive got toput some of them in practice right off. Follow me, andwe will dig the slimy angle worm from his squalid abodeand teach him how to be sanitary in a neat tin can filledwith nice, clean, damp moss.
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RecallThe braces at the bottom of the flag-pole do not speak well for this scouts troop. CHAPTER XII MORNING SCOUTING EVERY morning from 9.15 to 12 oclock is devotedto work, examinations, talks by the Scout Masterand his Assistant, and scouting of one kind and an-other. There is a lot to do, too. You thought before youcame that the troop would go on a hike every day. Morn-ing is the time for hikes, but they are being crowded intothe afternoons. You had no idea the time of the troopwould be so fully taken up. There are tower and bridgebuilding, fire drill, first-aid drill, wall-scaling drill, observa-tion tests, parade drill, tree and plant hikes, a geologyhike — goodaess knows what all. Great fun, too, all of it.Geology or Snakes? — Take the geology hike, for ex-ample, the afternoon of your first day off duty. You arenot interested in rocks, you tell Nick. Rattlesnakes, you 139 140 THE BOYS CAMP BOOK boob, he retorts. We can fish afterward. And what atreat that geology hike turns

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