By John O'Toole (1953)
It is the spirit that will continue to cast it's magic spell on the singing around the evening campfire. It will add the salt of friendship to the coining of nicknames, the kidding, and the sharing of camp work.
Whether he lugs a heavy pack or carries a canoe on a portage to one of the many rock-walled lakes in the Aulneau Peninsula, each boy will quietly grow into manhood.
As he lays awake under the stars on Falcon Island and listens to a timber wolf complaining to the moon or to a moose sloshing through a bog, he will know that with all its surging, unpredictable power, nature can still be his friend. He will live with men who live with God.
(from a book compiled by Jack Conway)
That is absolutely beautiful..... true for both boys and girls, men and women. Thank you for posting this.
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