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 . his bagsand boxes packed and ready, you are putting the lasttouches on your own preparations. You wish most heartilyyou had been chosen one of the advance detail, to go tocamp a day ahead of the troop, but only four can go. Well,perhaps you are entitled to be one of them, the leader atthat, and the right-hand man of your Scout Master. Butfor the purposes of this book, I am supposing you to be justan average Scout, not yet wearing a Fir
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 . his bagsand boxes packed and ready, you are putting the lasttouches on your own preparations. You wish most heartilyyou had been chosen one of the advance detail, to go tocamp a day ahead of the troop, but only four can go. Well,perhaps you are entitled to be one of them, the leader atthat, and the right-hand man of your Scout Master. Butfor the purposes of this book, I am supposing you to be justan average Scout, not yet wearing a First-Class badge. Time to Get Nervous. — During the last few days thereseems to be always at least a couple of Scouts at the Scout OFF TO CAMP 71 Masters house. It is a common meeting place, is the news headquarters just now. The grub is goneis the report at last. Scout Master and the baggage, werent you around to help load up? Have yougot your pack ready? Bright and fair to-morrow, fel-lows, according to the weather report. Lets go swim-ming. Hey, how can you do that when your bathingsuit is on the train? Where will we be this time to-. That Reminds Me When the time to go draws near, you carry something like this perpetually in your minds eye. morrow? So much excitement that it gets on your nerves,and you go for a walk with your chum to pass the time. When you go to bed that night you have your Scout uni-form laid out for the morning, your blanket-roll strapped,and your pack-sack at last loaded to suit you. Anotherboy probably would lie awake half the night, too excited tosleep. As a boy I did it myself, over no more importantan event than that I was going to help drive a carload ofcattle to market. But you have had a good big walk, youare prepared in every way for your trip, and in spite ofparental predictions to the contrary you are asleep in ajiffy. Scout training goes a long way. 72 THE BOYS CAMP BOOK The Day of Days. — What was that? Bugle! Sure —Ros
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