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I6O Boy Scouts of the match forward through the teeth. Or, face the wind. Cup your hands back toward the wind, remove the right hand just long enough to strike the match on something very dose by, then instantly resume former position. Flame of match w/II run up stick instead of blowing away from it. The Camp Fire "I c?nnot conceive of a camp that does not have a big fire. Our dty houses do not have it, not even a fireplace. The fireplace is one of the greatest schools the'imagination has ever Around the camp fire had or can ever trove. It is moral, and it always has a tre- mendous stimulus to the imagination, and that is why stories and fire go together. You cannot tell a good story unless you tell it before a fire. You cannot have a complete fire unless you have a good story-teller along! "There is an impalpable, invisible, softly stepping delight in the camp fire which escapes analysis. Enumerate all its charms and still there is something missing in your catalogue. "Any one who has witnessed a real camp fire and partidpated in its fun as well as seriousness will never forget it. The huge fire shooting up its tongue of flame into the darkness of the night, the perfect shower of golden rain, the cqmpany, of Digitized by?-.?00?[C happy