Camp Chequesset — The Boat Garden and the Winners 



Learning to See and Hear 



Agathe Deming 



Camp Miramichi 



Nature-study is so much a part of camp life that it is difficult 

 to discuss the subject from the point of view of methods used. 



Even if we had not been interested in nature, circum.stances 

 would have forced that interest upon us, because it is impossible 

 to live for even a few weeks in the Adirondack woods without 

 coming intimately in contact with one's neighbors of the forest. 



At one time, when our kitchen was a canvas-covered building, 

 open on two sides, we had nightly visitations from a family of coons 

 who ate our cereal out of the double boilers on the coal range, and 

 could not be discouraged by any weights which we placed on the 

 lids. One night we treed three little ones in a big hemlock and 

 routed the whole camp out of bed so that with the aid of flash- 

 lights, and in spite of the threatening sounds m.ade by the mother 

 coon in the nearby woods, the girls might see at close range the 

 beautiful little felloWs with their pointed ears, black m.arkings and 

 eager, wild eyes. We had acquaintance too with a porcupine, 

 but found him less attractive as he attem.pted to eat the kitchen 

 itself, and destroyed a number of our young hemlocks. vSquirrcls 

 and chipm.unks made free with our out-door dining room., stealing 

 bread and even whole oranges from the tables just l)cf(-re we 

 came tj meals. In our explorations we came ui)()n tlic work 



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