'Legends of the Red Children," Mary Pratt-Chadwick.
'Flying Plover," Theo. Roberts.
"Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore," Ernest Thomp-
son Seton.
One wise camp leader asked one of his assistants to
prepare himself through the winter with just this sort of
material, looking forward to the next season. So popular
were these stories that if the story-teller sat down with a
group of the campers an Indian story was promptly de-
manded.
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The Missing Words

iFIave the boys seated around the camp fire. The leader
reads from a familiar story and leaves out a word at
various places and the boys in turn try to tell the missing



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words. The boys who miss drop out, as in a spelling
match. The boy who is the last to place a missing word
wins.
The Camp Paper

Many leaders have felt the camp paper was too much
trouble, but the vast majority that have given it a fair
trial think it fills a great place in the activities.
The papers of various camps vary from typewritten or
mimeographed . papers to bound magazines with numer-
ous cuts for illustration. One camp has the work di-
vided so that one boy writes athletic news, one aquatic
news, one general news items, one jokes and stories, one
nature study, and so forth. Other camps leave the job
entirely to a committee of leaders, or even to one man,
but in some way arrange to provide a camp paper, for it
has a permanent value as a record of events,

Kamp Kiamesha issues a weekly paper known as the
Kiamesha Knocker. Camp Couchiching issues The
Couchiching Camper, Dayton Camp, The Camp FireHy.
