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  THE MOOSE WAS NOW SNORTING LIKE A WAR-HORSE BENEATH.

  (_See page 274_)]

  CAMP AND TRAIL

  A Story of the Maine Woods

  BY

  ISABEL HORNIBROOK

  AUTHOR OF "TUKE," "IN THE SERVICE," "LOST IN MAINE WOODS," ETC.

  BOSTON

  LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY

  1897

  TYPOGRAPHY BY C.J. PETERS & SON, BOSTON.

  PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH.

  TO

  J.L.H.

  PREFACE.

  In adding another to the list of stories bearing on that subject ofperennial interest to boys, adventures in camp and on trail among thewoods and lakes of Northern Maine, one thought has been the inspirationthat led me on.

  It is this: To prove to high-mettled lads, American, and English aswell, that forest quarters, to be the most jovial quarters on earth,need not be made a shambles. Sensation may reach its finest pitch,excitement be an unfailing fillip, and fun the leaven which leavens thecamping-trip from start to finish, even though the triumph of killingfor triumph's sake be left out of the play-bill.

  "There is a higher sport in preservation than in destruction," says aveteran hunter, whose forest experiences and descriptions have in partenriched this story. I commend the opinion to boy-readers, trusting thatthey may become "queer specimen sportsmen," after the pattern of CyrusGarst; and find a more entrancing excitement in studying the live wildthings of the forest than in gloating over a dying tremor, or examininga senseless mass of horn, hide, and hoofs, after the life-spring whichworked the mechanism has been stilled forever.

  One other desire has trodden on the heels of the first: That YoungEngland and Young America may be inspired with a wish to understand eachother better, to take each other frankly and simply for the manhood ineach; and that thus misconception and prejudice may disappear like mistsof an old-day dream.

  ISABEL HORNIBROOK.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER

  I. JACKING FOR DEER

  II. A SPILL-OUT

  III. LIFE IN A BARK HUT

  IV. WHITHER BOUND?

  V. A COON HUNT

  VI. AFTER BLACK DUCKS

  VII. A FOREST GUIDE-POST

  VIII. ANOTHER CAMP

  IX. A SUNDAY AMONG THE PINES

  X. FORWARD ALL!

  XI. BEAVER WORKS

  XII. "GO IT, OLD BRUIN!"

  XIII. "THE SKIN IS YOURS"

  XIV. A LUCKY HUNTER

  XV. A FALLEN KING

  XVI. MOOSE-CALLING

  XVII. HERB'S YARNS

  XVIII. To LONELIER WILDS

  XIX. TREED BY A MOOSE

  XX. DOL'S TRIUMPH

  XXI. ON KATAHDIN

  XXII. THE OLD HOME-CAMP

  XXIII. BROTHERS' WORK

  XXIV. "KEFPING THINGS EVEN"

  XXV. A LITTLE CARIBOU QUARREL

  XXVI. DOC AGAIN

  XXVII. CHRISTMAS ON THE OTHER SIDE

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  THE MOOSE WAS NOW SNORTING LIKE A WAR-HORSE BENEATH.

  "THERE IS MOOSEHEAD LAKE."

  DOL SIGHTS A FRIENDLY CAMP.

  IN THE SHADOW OF KATAHDIN.

  "GO IT, OLD BRUIN! GO IT WHILE YOU CAN!"

  "HERB HEAL."

  A FALLEN KING.

  THE CAMP ON MILLINOKETT LAKE.

  "HERB CHARGED THROUGH THE CHOKING DUST-CLOUDS."

  GREENVILLE,--"FAREWELL TO THE WOODS."

  CAMP AND TRAIL.