THE OUTDOOR WORLD 
XI 
A High Grade Camp for Boys. 
Camp Kineo for boys, at Harrison, 
Maine, is under the same general di- 
rector. Mr. Irving G. McColl, as Camp 
Kineowatha for girls at \\ ilton, Maine, 
which our readers know from repeated 
publications in this magazine meets 
with the highest approval of the editor 
of this magazine. Mr. McColl has all 
the necessary qualifications for an ideal 
camp director. He has good business 
management, thorough system, cordial 
personality and a real liking for boys 
and girls. Add to good management 
the ideal, picturesque location on the 
very best of Maine lakes and there is 
a combination producing everything 
that can be desired in the way of camp- 
ing. Mr. McColl’s genial personality 
at once inspires the good will of par- 
ents and tells them that he is just the 
fellow to properly manage a high grade 
camp. He loves the work and he knows 
how to do it and has the ability to pick 
and to secure good assistants in every 
line. In the Kineo Camp for boys in 
Harrison, Maine, he has been peculiar- 
ly successful in securing the services 
of noted specialists, mature, experi- 
enced councilors. From personal con- 
versation with his camp men the editor 
of this magazine surmises that he is 
paying much higher salaries than those 
of any other boys’ camp and probably 
higher than even high grade camps for 
girls. It takes a skilled man to look 
after boys and inspire them along right 
lines. Every detail of health, cleanli- 
ness and safety is carefully guarded. 
Then too the campers are very care- 
fully selected and eighty per cent of 
them are rated as above the normal 
for their ages. Kineo has thorough 
equipment for caring for health with 
a large and completely appointed in- 
firmary with resident nurse and doctor 
and complete medical dispensary. 
The development of the boys’ in- 
terests and hobbies includes special 
courses in electricity, mechanics, motor 
boats, automobiles, manual training as 
Avell as nature study. The editor of 
this magazine knows from personal 
experience in a visit of several days at 
the camp that the food is the very best 
and the quantity abundant. Our read- 
ers will recall that last year we pub- 
lished a most astonishing list of the 
amount of food used by these hearty 
youngsters in the two months. It 
really is astonishing how much food 
is used by boys in good, healthful ac- 
tivity when that food is served in a 
palatable and attractive manner. 
The editor of this magazine gives 
unlimited approval as the highest pos- 
sible development of a boys’ camp. It 
is for boys from the very best fami- 
lies whose parents have the ability and 
willingness to pay a reasonable price 
for the highest grade service. 
For further particulars address Ed- 
ward F. Bigelow, ArcAdiA: Sound 
Beach, Connecticut. 
What is an Anty-mire? 
I recall hearing in my earliest boy- 
hood old-time persons sing “Old 
Grimes” to the tune of “Auld Lang 
Syne,” and my grandfather said that 
when he was a boy he had often heard 
it sung. This song evidently dates back 
to the time of the earliest settlers of 
New England. It would be interesting 
to know its full history. But from the 
natural history point of view one won- 
ders about the origin of the curious 
animal, Anty-mire, that Old Grimes’s 
little dog ran up a tree, per the follow- 
ing stanza : 
“Old Grimes he had a little dog, 
His tail as red as fire; 
He chased around an old black stump 
And treed an Anty-mire.” 
Was this Anty-mire real or mythical, 
and if mythical what was the origin of 
the name? 
Recently, in discussing the matter 
with a friend who is a naturalist, it was 
jocosely suggested that probably the 
animal was a hybrid between a Golly- 
wampus and a Hoolawa. Perhaps the 
origin of the name was equally humor- 
ous and perhaps there may have been 
a real natural history basis. Come, you 
antiquarians, and let us know what an 
Anty-mire is? 
Ever try a microscopic aquarium? It 
takes only a tumbler or a small jar and 
a hand lens, the mud out of a ditch, 
and the water above it. Barring an 
occasional snail or the like, there will be 
few creatures larger than a pinhead, 
either animals or plants. But the va- 
riety is sometimes astonishing, and 
the changes most interesting from day 
to day. 
