The Boy Scout Pathfinders; Or, Jack Danby's Best Adventure

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Boy Scout Pathfinders, by Robert Maitland
Boy Scout Series Volume 6
Jack Danby’s Best Adventure
Major Robert Maitland
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK
Copyright 1912 BY THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.
The Boy Scout Pathfinders
“Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!” clashed the great bell on the locomotive, and with much creaking and clanking and letting off of steam, with iron scraping on iron and one last, long drawn whistle of the air-brakes, the train came slowly to a stop.
As if vying with the locomotive to see which could make the greater noise, a score or more of khaki-clad boys came tumbling to the platform of the little mountain station, amid whoops and cat-calls and shouts of, “Here we are!” “Hurrah for the Adirondacks!” “Say, fellows, this is the backwoods and no mistake!”
And then in rapid succession came the further inquiries:
“Which way do we go? Up this road?”
“See that big rock away down there? I’ll race you to it!”