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THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



Realizing the farness of my camp from human 

 abode it could scarcely have been farther on the con- 

 tinent my thoughts flew back to the dear ones at 

 home, and my comrades, the men of the Camp-fire 

 Club. I wondered if their thoughts were with me at 

 the time. How they must envy me the chance of 

 launching into the truly unknown wilderness, a land 

 still marked on the maps as " unexplored!" How I 

 enjoyed the thoughts of their sympathy over our 

 probable perils and hardships, and imagined them 

 crowding around me with hearty greetings on my safe 

 return! Alas! for the rush of a great city's life and 

 crowds, I found out later that these, my companions, 

 did not even know that I had been away from New 

 York.' 



