ATD The Outdoor Chums

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THE OUTDOOR CHUMS

Or

The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club

BY CAPTAIN QUINCY ALLEN

1911

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS

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CHAPTER I

PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN


"Great news, Jerry! The storm last night damaged the
roof of the academy
so that it has been condemned as unsafe. And the Head
has decided that
there can be no school held for two weeks."

"So Watkins was just telling me. He says most of the
outside students are
to be sent home again until repairs can be made. And I
was just thinking
that while I'm sorry for the Head, it opens up a jolly
good prospect for
some of us."

"How's that, Jerry? For myself, I was just feeling
glad to be back at my
desk again, after vacation, and now it's knock around
again."

"All right, just stop and consider. There are four
boys I know of,
constituting the Rod, Gun and Camera Club, who have
been busy planning
an outing for next summer, back of the lumber camps at
the head of the
lake. Talk to me about opportunities, what's to hinder
us going into the
woods right now, and making use of our rods, guns, and
that elegant new
camera your mother gave you on your birthday last
week?" demanded the boy
called Jerry.

"What's all this about, you two conspirators?"
demanded one of two other
boys, swinging alongside just then, as though sure of
a hearty welcome,
and a voice at the council fire.

"Glad you came, Frank and Bluff, for I want your
opinion. Jerry has
just sprung an astonishing idea on me, and I'm so
dazed I hardly know
what to say. Are you ready for the question? All in
favor of spending
the two weeks' additional vacation out in camp back of
the lumbermen's
diggings say ay!"

The two newcomers looked at each other as if trying to
grasp the
immensity of the proposition; then they pulled off
their hats, and giving
a shout threw them into the air while both roared the
affirmative word:

"Ay!"
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