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 . Quite a different matter, isnt it,when you think it over? Old Camping Grounds. — In many cases there is a logicalplace, a recreation ground of long standing that is unques-tionably the best adapted for the purposes of the it stirs us just to think of those places, too! But alas!far too many are known to us older campers only in mem-ory. Talk of conservation! I never see or hear the wordbut I think of the picnic groves and the
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 . Quite a different matter, isnt it,when you think it over? Old Camping Grounds. — In many cases there is a logicalplace, a recreation ground of long standing that is unques-tionably the best adapted for the purposes of the it stirs us just to think of those places, too! But alas!far too many are known to us older campers only in mem-ory. Talk of conservation! I never see or hear the wordbut I think of the picnic groves and the camping groundsthat are so rapidly passing out of existence, for one reasonand another. Then, on the other hand, there are so many CAMP GROUNDS 17 more people camping nowadays than formerly. So troopsof Boy Scouts often find it by no means easy to get a first-rate location for their annual camp. Beside, having foundone, it does not necessarily follow that the troop will wishto return there year after year; everybody likes a change ofscene. Presuming that the hunt is on, as it should be monthsbefore the time for going to camp comes around, it will be. The Kind of Camp-Site We Dream AboutEverybody off on a Hike decided by common consent that the Scouts do not want tocamp too near to home. They all want the change of sceneabove mentioned, and need it, too. A majority of parents,however, are apt to advise some nearby place, and so it iswell to have a full report concerning the various sites, and 18 TEE BOYS CAMP BOOK make sure that the value of change of scene is token intoaccount. As this is a boys book I will not dilate on thissubject. But I urge the reader to vote for all the changehe can get. Change of Scene, — The troop of which I am ScoutMaster is located in a salt water town, and all but one ortwo of the forty-eight Scouts who at present are memberscan swim, most of them very well indeed. A majority ofthem go swimming at least several times a week all summerlong. Some l
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