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The Boy Scouts on Swift River
by Thornton W. Burgess
Publication date 2021-02-14
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, adventure, honor, woodcraft, scouts, outdoor skills
LibriVox recording of The Boy Scouts on Swift River by Thornton W. Burgess.
Read in English by Keith Salis
When the adventurous Walter Upton and Hal Harrison set out with the young, but expert guide Louis Woodhull on a canoe trip through the wilderness, they were disappointed to take on an excitable Tenderfoot with them as their fourth. The boys had no idea what sorts of surprises awaited them from Nature, History, and even themselves. Would their training, equipment, and sense of camaraderie be enough to see them safely down Swift River?
the boy scouts on swift river by thornton w burgess all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by keith salas introduction the boy scouts of woodcraft camp to which the present volume is in the nature of a sequel was written to demonstrate what may be accomplished by the application of boy scout principles where boys are thrown in constant contact with one another as in a large school or camp and at the same time to stimulate in boy readers a desire to learn for themselves the great lessons of manliness and self-reliance of true courage and of purity and clear thinking and living which mother nature is ever ready to teach those who seek her in her own great temples in the boy scouts on swift river i have endeavored to show the direct application of the lessons learned in woodcraft camp and for this reason have chosen four of dr miriam's boys three with whom you are already well acquainted if you have read the first book and one who is a tenderfoot to face the test of self-dependence in a canoe cruise on unfamiliar waters i am well aware that certain old hunters and perhaps some naturalists may accuse me of stretching the truth in regard to the boldness of the bull moose and inflecting his society upon the young cruisers for this reason i want to say here that the incident is literally true in the main points as i myself was one of the victims of his undesired attentions and prize today is among the choicest of all my photographs those made of his royal highness on that memorable occasion one of the great charms of the wilderness is the continual encounter with the unexpected the true scout is prepared to meet such situations and to do the right thing instinctively but to be thus prepared he must have learned the value and blessing of self-dependence the boy who has never been forced to stand squarely on his own feet who has never met an emergency for himself alone and with the full knowledge that he has none to whom to turn will seldom become a leader either in boyhood or manhood self-dependence is nature's inflexible law upon this and this alone rests the very life of every wild creature from the largest to the least man is no exception once he has entered those domains where nature rules supreme for this reason i believe that in no other way may moral and physical stamina be so surely and quickly developed in a boy as in such a trip through the wilderness or semi-wilderness as herein described and for you boy reader i can wish no greater joy than the thrill of a run through foam-crested water the sense of triumph in the successful meeting of an emergency the mingled odor of frying bacon and pungent wood smoke and the deep peace that comes with stretching out on a bed of fragrant balsam at the end of a hard day's paddle lulled to dreamless sleep by the soft murmur of the night wind among the treetops other adventures in the woods are described in the boy scouts on lost trail and in the boy scouts in a trapper's camp the author chapter 1 first aid it was noon on the last saturday in june the great city of new york sweltered in...
