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d 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." [1] Anyone who has witnessed a real camp fire and participated in its fun, as well as seriousness, will never forget it. The huge fire shooting up i

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hould be done during the afternoon. Two things are essential in the building of a fire-kindling and air. A fire must be built systematically. First, get dry, small dead branches, twigs, fir branches and other inflammable material. Place these upon the ground. Be sur

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stories, ghost stories, detective stories, stories of heroism, the history of fire, a talk about the stars.

soon you will have a chorus of unexpected melody and harmony. As the fire dies down, let th

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y found and the wild animals which they could shoot or snare; when they dressed in skins and lived in caves, there was little time for tho

when the sun shone, but when the sun hid its face and the wind blew upon it, it grew black and angry and upset their canoes. They found that knocking flints together or rubbing dry sticks would light the dry mos

it all was or how it came to be. Men began to wonder-and tha

loved him and wondered, 'His body is of my body, but from whence comes the life-the spirit which is like mine and yet not like it?' And his father, seeing the wonder

of all the wild things, and could read the signs of the season. As he grew older they made him a chief and listened w

and set? Why did life burst into leaf and flower with the coming of t

the moon: 'Whither?' He listened to the soughing of the trees and the song of the brook and tried to learn their language. He peered eagerly into the eyes

nd listening for the unspoken. He sat so long silent at the council board that the el

han the great bear and buffalo, yet by our wisdom we overcome them. The deer is more swift of foot, but by craft we overtake him. We cannot fly like a bird, but we s

great and wise we are! There is none like

re the fox leaps upon him. Our sight is like that of the mole burrowing under the ground. Our wisdom

one can tell us whence it comes or whither it goes. I have asked the wise men, and they cannot answer; I have listened to the voice of

small voice within my breast, saying to me: "Wo, the questioner, rise up like the stag from hi

il another will take it up. If I

y the sun by day and the stars by night. On the seventh he came to the great mountain-the mountain of the sun-on whose top, according to the tradition of his tribe, th

on the mountain. Chilled and faint with hunger and fatigue, Wo struggled on. Just at sunset he reached the top of the mo

. The sun journeyed farther and faster than men dreamed, and of wood and waste and water there was no end. O

ntain waiting for the answer. A cloud covered the mountain, but all was silent. A mighty wind rent the cloud and rushed roaring

ut in it all the sounds of earth and sky seemed to mingle-the song of

nd so child of the earth and brother to all living, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, thus making him My son

is Mine; it is given thee for a space to make according to t

kers that come after thee, in a thousand voices and appear in a thousand shapes. I will speak in the voices of the wood and streams and of those you love. I will appear to you in the sun by day a

warmed by its rays. A great gladness filled his soul. He had sou

ssenger, but Thou art brighter than the sun. Drive Thou

home of his people his face shone, and the light never seemed

cle of the fire, he remembered that the Great Spirit had given him no message, and for a moment he was dumb. Then the words of the Great Spirit came to him again: 'When thy people and Mine shall need to

from Him the spirit comes. We are His children. He cares for us more than a mother for the child at her breast,

His love. We are but children; we cannot enter into the council of the Great Chief until we have been proved, but this is His will, that we love on

te between man and his brother,' and they took an acorn and put it in the earth, saying: 'Thus plant we the love of the strong for

ght hands raised and left hands upon their hearts, prayed: 'Great Spiri

ser than all the other tribes-but that is anoth

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