cupations and watch the flare and flicker 

 of the blaze and the wierd shadows it 

 casts. Many of the less timid may ap- 

 proach quite near, others more wary will 

 circle quietly and cautiously about at a 

 considerable distance but always in view 

 of the fire. If there should happen to be 

 a light fall of snow on the ground the 

 tracks visible in the snow in the morning 

 will disclose the names of the visitors at 

 the camp fire. 



Later at night, however, when the fire 

 has died down, and is no longer visible, 

 one's forest neighbors will resume their 

 usual occupations, and the wakeful camp- 

 er may listen to the patter of hurrying 

 footsteps, to the scratch of toe-nails on 

 bark as a climber goes up or down a tree 

 trunk, to the sniff of the inquisitive fel- 

 low who smells about the camp, to the 

 chatter of the chap who talks to himself, 

 to the loping or jumping noises, to the 

 splashes in the brook, to the last despair- 

 ing cry of some small animal as his life 

 is being crushed out by his captor. A 



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