The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp

By Thornton W. Burgess

Author of "The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp", "The Boy Scouts on Swift River", "The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail"

Illustrated by F. A. Anderson

The Penn Publishing
Company Philadelphia

COPYRIGHT
1915
BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

To
W. H. T.,
A lover of the open, and his three boys,
this book is affectionately dedicated

HE SAW SOMETHING MOVE

Contents

Introduction
CHAPTER I. An Interrupted Dream
CHAPTER II. Pat Sees White Magic
CHAPTER III. The Blue Tortoise Patrol
CHAPTER IV. "Help!"
CHAPTER V. Off for Woodcraft
CHAPTER VI. Snow-Shoes and Fish
CHAPTER VII. On the Trail
CHAPTER VIII. Alec Hints at Dark Things
CHAPTER IX. Snowbound
CHAPTER X. Life on the Fur Trails
CHAPTER XI. Christmas in Smugglers' Hollow
CHAPTER XII. A Deer Yard
CHAPTER XIII. Poachers
CHAPTER XIV. The Silver Fox
CHAPTER XV. Sparrer's Temptation
CHAPTER XVI. The Conference
CHAPTER XVII. The Camp of the Poachers
CHAPTER XVIII. Smoking Out the Indian
CHAPTER XIX. Sparrer Saves the Skin
CHAPTER XX. The Black Fox is Sold

Stories in this Series

Illustrations

He Saw Something Move

He Jotted Down the Number

Once More They Buckled Down to the Task

Not Ten Feet Away Was a Big Buck

For a Few Seconds He Stood Motionless

Introduction

To those who have read the preceding volumes in this series, "The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp," "The Boy Scouts on Swift River," and "The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail," some of the characters in the present volume will be familiar. To me they are old friends in whose struggles and adventures I have taken the keenest personal interest.

In this, the fourth and concluding volume, I have endeavored to portray in some small measure the life of the trapper who in solitude and loneliness pits his skill against the cunning of the fur-bearers, and his courage and fortitude against the forces of Nature in her harshest and most relentless mood; to bring to my young readers a sense of the mystery of the great life eternal that broods over the wilderness to an even greater degree when its waters are fettered in ice, and its waste places wrapped in snow than when it rejoices in its summer verdure; to show that the standards a man or a boy sets for himself are as binding upon him in remote places where none may see as in the midst of his fellow men; and lastly to demonstrate what a powerful factor in the development of character and true manhood are the oath and law of the Boy Scouts of America when subscribed to in sincerity and conscientiously observed.

Man or boy is never so true to himself as when in intimate contact with