Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods

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Barbour Ralph Henry. Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES NELSON TILFORD, AND WITNESSES HIS ARRIVAL AT CAMP CHICORA

CHAPTER II. TELLS OF A TALK BY THE CAMP-FIRE AND OF HAPPENINGS IN A DORMITORY

CHAPTER III. SHOWS THAT A MOTOR-DORY CAN GO AS WELL AS STOP

CHAPTER IV. RELATES HOW NELSON BORROWED A LEAF FROM BOB, AND HOW DAN CRIED QUITS

CHAPTER V. TELLS HOW DAN PLAYED A TRUMP CARD, HOW BOB GAINED HONOR, AND HOW THE “BIG FOUR” CAME INTO EXISTENCE

CHAPTER VI. OPENS WITH AWFUL TIDINGS, AND ENDS WITH A GLEAM OF HOPE

CHAPTER VII. PROVES THE TRUTH OF THE SAYING THAT THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM AT THE TOP, AND SHOWS DAN WITH THE “BLUES”

CHAPTER VIII. TELLS HOW TOM WAS VISITED BY AUNT LOUISA – AND SOME OTHERS

CHAPTER IX. STARTS OUT WITH POETRY, HAS TO DO WITH A BEETLE, AND ENDS WITH A PENALTY

CHAPTER X. DESCRIBES AN AFTERNOON ON THE LAKE AND A GALLANT RESCUE

CHAPTER XI. TELLS HOW THE FOUR PLANNED AN EXCURSION, AND HOW DAN AND NELSON PLAYED HARES, MADE A DISCOVERY, AND HAD A FRIGHT

CHAPTER XII. HAS TO DO WITH STORM AND LIGHTNING; DISCOVERS TOM IN TEARS, AND CONCLUDES THE ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XIII. RECALLS THE FACT THAT WHAT’S FAIR FOR ONE IS FAIR FOR ANOTHER, AND RECORDS A DEFEAT AND A VICTORY

CHAPTER XIV. BEGINS A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE WHICH THREATENS TO END IN DISASTER

CHAPTER XV. CONCLUDES THE ADVENTURE AND SHOWS TOM SLEEPING THE SLEEP OF THE JUST

CHAPTER XVI. RECORDS TWO VICTORIES OVER WICKASAW AND AN EPISODE WITH FISH

CHAPTER XVII. WITNESSES THE DEPARTURE OF THE FOUR ON A CANOE TRIP AND BRINGS THEM INTO CAMP FOR THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XVIII. TELLS HOW THEY FOUND A DERELICT AND A COURSE DINNER, AND MET WITH SHIPWRECK

CHAPTER XIX. CONCERNS ITSELF WITH THE DANGEROUS PLIGHT OF DAN AND NELSON AND THE COURAGE OF THE LATTER

CHAPTER XX. RELATES THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRIP AND WHAT HAPPENED AT CAMP

CHAPTER XXI. TELLS HOW THE FOUR LAID PLANS AND HOW BOB PREPARED FOR A VICTORY

CHAPTER XXII. NARRATES THE PROGRESS OF THE CONTEST WITH WICKASAW, AND WITNESSES THE DISINTEGRATION OF ONE WELLS

CHAPTER XXIII. PROVES THE SCORE-BOOK IN ERROR AND CLOSES THE STORY

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“That’s Chicora over there.”

The man at the wheel turned to the boy standing beside him and nodded his head at a landing toward which the nose of the big steam-launch was slowly turning. It lay less than an eighth of a mile away across the smooth waters of the lake, a good-sized wharf, a float, a pole from which a blue-and-gray flag hung lifeless, and a flotilla of various kinds of boats. Several figures stood upon the pier, and their voices came shrill and clear across the intervening space. From the shore, which here circled inward into a tiny cove, the hill swept up rather abruptly for three hundred feet or more, and a third of the way up the gleam of unpainted boards through the trees told Nelson Tilford of the location of the camp which was to be his home for the next two months. It was a pleasant, peaceful scene before him, but the shadow of the hill had already crept well into the lake, leaving the shore and wooded slope in twilight, and a slight qualm of loneliness stole over him for the instant.

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“That was farther than I thought, or else the boat rocked. Throw me the painter and I’ll pull you in.”

Dan, his smile broadening at what he considered Nelson’s innocence, tossed the rope and jumped ashore with the bag.

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