Around The Fire

This Volume Was Published In 1912. From The Book'S Foreword: When The Night Is Black About The Campfire And The Flames Die Down And The Half-Burned Embers Fall Into The Ashes We Look Into The Red Chamber Of Romance And See The Flicker- Ing Shapes Of The Men Of Long Ago. The Silence Deepens And The World Of Today Is Swallowed Up By That Of A Yester- Day Older Than History. The Blood Of Angle Saxon And Jute Kelt And Slav Sings In Our Brains. Something Touches Our Eyes With A Magic Wand And We See At The Heart Of The Fire Pictures Of The World When Man Was Young. The Backlog Becomes A Ruddy Screen Upon Which Pass And Repass The Heroes Who Won A World For Us By Their Courage And Skill. The World Of These Pictures Was Young. Everything Had To Be Learned Everything Had To Be Won. But There Were Giants In Those Days And The Revealer Held The Guiding Torch. Slowly But Surely They Wond Mastery Over Harsh Nature Savage Beasts And Even More Savage Men But The Greatest Of All Mastery Over Self. And They Were Men And Women Of Our Own Race. Their Blood Runs In Our Veins. Their Home Was In Angeln Old England The Low-Lying Land Where They Lingered For Awhile Before They Crossed The Great Water To Build And Empire On Which The Sun Never Sets. Some Of Their Names Were Passed Down From Father To Son And Mother To Daughter Till They Appeared In The Doomsday Book Of King William Where They Can Be Seen Now By Those Who Are Curious. Many Of The Animals Who Shared The Forest Primeval With Man In Old England Have Long Since Disappeared But They Have Left Their Bones In Caves And Peat Bogs. How Men Found The Great Spirit Has Been Told About Many Camp-Fires. There Has Been A Call For More Stories Of The Same Kind. Here They Are And The Writer Hopes That Others Who See Things At Night In The Fire Will Enjoy Them And See More For Themselves. H. M. Burr - The Pines Springfield Mass Dec 1911 ............................................................................... Chapters: 1. The Fire Spirit 2. The First Potter 3. The First Gang 4. The First Chief 5. The Smoke Way 6. The First Milkman 7. Rang The Red Man 8. Rang Of The Thinking Hand 9. The First Sailor 10. The Garden Of Ulma 11. Let The First Artist 12. Sax The First Musician 13. The Call Of The Great Water 14. The Story Of Lup 15. The Wooing Of Senna 16. Hun The Hunter Of White Men 17. The Lake Dwellers 18. How Men Found The Great Spirit One Of The Finest Collection Of Stories For Boy'S Camps.* .......* World Stories Retold For Modern Boys And Girls