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Occasionally he takes his children along and this makes the 

 volume very good reading for Boy Scouts and Cam.pfire Girls 

 and by no m.eans detracts from, its charm, for adult readers. The 

 following from the account of his hunt for the Raven's Nest is a 

 good exam.ple of the vivacious style of this interesting book: 



"For fifteen freezing m.iles we clambered over and around 

 three of the seven m.ountains. By the middle of the afternoon 

 we reached a cliff hidden behind thickets of rhododendron. In 

 the m.eantime the snow had changed to a lashing rain, probably 

 the coldest that has ever fallen on the North American continent. 

 Ploughing thru slush, the black rhododendron stems twisted 

 around us like wet rubber, and the hollow green leaves funneled 

 ice- water down our backs and into our ears. Breaking thru 

 the last of the thickets, we at length reached a little brook which 

 ran along the foot of the cliff. A hundred feet above, out from 

 the middle of the cliff stretched a long tongue of rock. Over 

 this the cliff arched like a roof, with a space between which wid- 

 ened toward the tip of the tongue. In a niche above this cleft 

 a dark mass showed dimly thru the rain. 'The nest!' m.ut- 

 tered the Collector hoarsel}^ pouring a pint or so of rain-water 

 down my neck from his hat-brim as he bent toward m.e. I stared 

 with all my eyes, at last one of the chosen few to see the nest 

 of a Pennsylvania raven." 



Everyday Adventures is a delightful addition to our present 

 day Nature literature. 



