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CAMPING OUT
AS RECORDED BY “KIT” BY C. A. STEPHENS AUTHOR OF “LYNX HUNTING,” “FOX HUNTING,” “OFF TO THE GEYSERS,” “LEFT ON LABRADOR,” “ON THE AMAZONS,” ETC., ETC. NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS C. A. STEPHENS SERIES [no pub. date.] [ca 1910] INTRODUCTION.
UNLIKE the
rest of
New England, the whole middle and north-west portions of the State of
Maine are
still unsettled, — a wilderness of lake, stream, and forest, “Where
the bear roams,
And the wild-cat prowls.” Our
frontispiece is
from a drawing of the night camp of a party of four boys who made a
trip — an
expedition they called it — up into these “wild lands” a short time
since. “Kit,” one of the party, has written out an account of their adventures, which we give in his own words; merely remarking, that his style is some times a little off-hand: some of his opinions, too, are pretty strongly expressed; facts, not to say faults, which our boy-readers are not to adopt too largely. — Ed. CONTENTS.
CHAPTER II. An Arrival at a Delicate Moment. Mr. Wade Additon, ex-Rebel. A Shooting-Match. Programme of the Expedition. Ding-bat the Chinaman CHAPTER III. Starting off. The Outfit. On the Pond. The “Dead Growth.” A Lynx. Hornets. The “Thoroughfare.” On the Second Pond. A Thunder-Gust among the Mountains. A Race to escape a Ducking. “A Mean Skunk.” The Camp on the “Big Rock.” Hasty-Pudding CHAPTER IV. The Gorge. A Bear-Path. Another Pond. Water-Snakes. Hawks. Wash as a Naturalist. A Hawk’s Nest. The “Brulé.” Blue-berries. “Scat! you great-headed Wretch.” A Lynx-Hunt. A Hedge-Hog. Mephitis mephitica CHAPTER V. Sunday on the “Brulé.” A “Work of Necessity.” Going Blue-berrying. Bears. The Wrong Bear killed. An Inexplicable Shot. Bear-Steaks. CHAPTER VI. The Camp among the Firs. A Goose-Egg. The Reports. An Awful Screeching. Standing Guard. A Fresh Alarm. A Night of broken Naps. Was it a Catamount? Wash Discourses on Big Cats. CHAPTER VII. Mountain-Scenery. A Midnight Illumination. The Valley of the West Branch. A Blasted Tree. Skeletons. A Moose-Yard. Fishing in the West Branch. Wash scouts ahead, and makes an Agreeable Discovery. CHAPTER VIII. The Old Log-Shanty. Nobody at Home. Rummaging for Supper. The Hay Shake-Downs. A Nocturnal Scare and Scrimmage. A Wild-cat Hunt CHAPTER IX. A Tough Old Citizen. “Beelly.” A Voice of Wail. A Hard Case. Money won’t heal it. Suthin in a Green Bottle. CHAPTER X. “Old Cluey” and his Strange Tale of the Pomoola CHAPTER XI. Katahdin ho! The Shadow of a Tragedy. A Ghastly Omen. Mr. Bowditch’s Spotted Path. Up the “Great Slide.” Grand Scenery. A Cowberry-Fire. On to the Main-Peak. The Chimney. Perennial Snow CHAPTER XII. The Northeast Peak. The Beginning of a Long Search. A Meteor, with a Calculation concerning it. A New Theory of the Earth by a Daring Speculator. CHAPTER XIII. A Long Storm. What Day is it? Fishing for Trout. The Devil’s Dinner-Pot. CHAPTER XIV. A Caribou. Awful Sick, but not unto Death. The Deceitful Nymph among the Sumachs. CHAPTER XV. Washing-Day. A Strange Noise, Cluey takes us on a Moose-Hunt, and discloses a Novel Method of hunting the Animal. CHAPTER XVI. A Marten. A Fine View. The Logger-Hut on the Pond-Shore. Old Cluey’s Smelling-Bottle. Fleas. A Wooden Chimney. “Stand from under!” A Close Shave. The Disappearance of the Shot. Gun. Breaking of “the Oil-Jug.” “Coarks air allus Handy.” CHAPTER XVII. Wade goes on a “‘Coon-Hunt.” A Cry for Help. A Rush to the Rescue. “Is that You, Fellows?” “A Big Bull-Moose.” “Hit him in the Brisket!” CHAPTER XVIII. Out of Coffee. Cluey goes on a Long Tramp. A Dismal Cry. A Midnight Prowler. The Death of Ding-bat. CHAPTER XIX. Weary of the Expedition. A Chance Discovery which promises well. Breaking it to Raed. The Expedition not a Failure. Air-Castles. “Heigh, Betty Martin!” Going Home To-morrow CHAPTER XX. Adieu to Katahdin. The “Head of Chesuncook.” A Long Day’s Tramp. Farewell to Cluey. Home again, Parting with the Boys. An Author by Lot. |