Invocation
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By Talmage ChilsonThis campfire lighting ceremony is a splendid introduction for the Indian night at camp. Each of the boys should come in a blanket with a feather in his hair and war paint daubed freely. With a few feathers and a drum made from a cheese box they can work up some kind of a program. The first year boys are the squaw men, the second year campers the braves, and the third, the warriors. The council fire is built early in the day and at camp fire time the boys all come wrapped in their blankets and sit on three sides of the unlighted pile of wood. All is very silent on this ceremonial night and the poem is read. It is a plea for light to the Great Spirit as the poem draws to a close and as the fourth plea for light is made a ball of flame descends in answer from the heavens, floats to the wood and starts the council fire. Boys in camp like this and it always gives them a great thrill. Arrange for the ball of fire this way. In the daytime when the fire is built up, place a heavy pole or pipe in the center. Fasten one end of a wire to the lower end of the pipe. The other end of the wire may be fastened to a high tree or cliff or pole a little way from the council ring. Place a roller on the upper end and hang securely a ball of oil-soaked waste or sack to it. At the proper signal this ball is set on fire and released. It slides down the wire to the oil-soaked camp fire. Care must be taken that the wire is not near any limbs or branches that might catch on fire. Also place a guard near the fire so some ambitious camper will not try to light the fire with a match. As the wire cannot be seen at night, the boys will get a thrill out of the ceremony and it will appear as if the Great Spirit has answered the plea for light. THE INVOCATION0N the slopes of old Pike's Peak, Here the chiefs and braves and warriors Many things they do and learn there; Oh, Great Spirit, then from heaven May we know that Thou art with us Look, Oh warriors, braves and squaw-men, |
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