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 . before camping time comes around. You willfind it growing amazingly toward the last. But do not letthis bother you. When you come to pack up, you willcross off nearly everything you can do without. Your full uniform, belt, knife, axe, and whistle, and pos-sibly your staff, will complete your personal outfit. If youare a patrol leader you will of course take your staff andpatrol flag, whether the troop carry staffs or not. Youwill doubt
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 . before camping time comes around. You willfind it growing amazingly toward the last. But do not letthis bother you. When you come to pack up, you willcross off nearly everything you can do without. Your full uniform, belt, knife, axe, and whistle, and pos-sibly your staff, will complete your personal outfit. If youare a patrol leader you will of course take your staff andpatrol flag, whether the troop carry staffs or not. Youwill doubtless go in heavy marching order, carrying yourpack-sack and blanket-roll, if the trip to camp is to be madeby rail or by boat. If you are to hike it, all your baggageshould be hauled for you. Sometimes the order of the day— and what a big day it is! — is heavy marching order tothe place where you jump off from train or boat, and thenwagon transportation to camp for everything that cannotwalk. In any event, if you are going to take a fishing rodor a bow and arrows, you will be wise to carry them. Base-ball bats, tied together, can go with the youre on the right trail; JUST KEEP A-GOrN*Prospector, surveyors, and Boy Scouts meet on the trail; an incident ooa hike from a Rocky Mountain troops summer camp. CHAPTER VI THE TROOPS CAMPING KIT SOME Boy Scout troops are born with a camping out-fit, some acquire it, and others have it thrust uponthem, said our troop comedian one day, surveyinga camp stove we had invented. If we have to dependupon that thing to casserole our eats, Im going right outand provoke somebody to throw a kitchen range at me.,, In reality we couldnt have had a much better camp stovethrust upon us. I shall describe our invention furtheralong in this chapter. At the same time, it was due to ourbeing presented with the tents of a defunct cadet organiza-tion that we had a much better camp than we otherwisewould have had. It All Depends. — In this connec
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