CONTENTS
[PREFACE]
[CHAPTER I--A Meeting in the Barn]
[CHAPTER II--What it Means to be a Boy Scout]
[CHAPTER III--The Disappearing Coins]
[CHAPTER IV--The First Scout Leader]
[CHAPTER V--Checking a Coward]
[CHAPTER VI--A Strange Suggestion]
[CHAPTER VII--The Trap that Peleg Set]
[CHAPTER VIII--Turning the Tables]
[CHAPTER IX--"Well Done, My Boy!"]
[CHAPTER X--An Unexpected Offer]
[CHAPTER XI--Caught Napping]
[CHAPTER XII--The Rival Troops]
[CHAPTER XIII--"Fire!"]
[CHAPTER XIV--Jack's Chance]
[CHAPTER XV--The Honor Brand]
[CHAPTER XVI--The Fire Test]
[CHAPTER XVII--Clearing Skies]
[CHAPTER XVIII--Carlo Does His Turn]
[CHAPTER XIX--The Warning Over the Wire]
[CHAPTER XX--Such Glorious Luck]
[CHAPTER XXI--The Meeting]
[CHAPTER XXII--Scouting in Earnest]
[CHAPTER XXIII--The Red Car]
[CHAPTER XXIV--A Call for Help]
[CHAPTER XXV--A Camp in the Woods]
[CHAPTER XXVI--What Woodcraft Told]
[CHAPTER XXVII--Ted Finds Something]
[CHAPTER XXVIII--Forced to Tell]
[CHAPTER XXIX--The Capture]
[CHAPTER XXX--Found Out at Last]
[CHAPTER XXXI--Well Done, Stanhope Troop!—Conclusion]
PREFACE
My Dear Boys:
Knowing that ninety-nine lads out of every hundred love outdoor life above all else, I have taken it upon myself to give you a series of what I hope will prove to be clean, wide-awake, up-to-date stories, founded upon a subject that is interesting our whole nation—the Boy Scouts of America. You know what a hold this movement has taken upon the rising generation of our broad land. There never was anything like it before—there never may be again.
At first many people made the mistake of believing that it was simply a new military order, and that boys who joined were to be taught the duties of soldiers, and learned how to fight. They know better now. It is really the greatest movement for Peace ever started. Not only that, but the lads who belong to this vast organization are taught how to be manly, self reliant, brave, courteous, kindly and steadfast.
When you examine the roster of the officers who have loaned their names to help along the good cause you will find such honored signatures as those of President William Howard Taft, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, and many others dear to the hearts of our boys.
This glorious field opens up a very tempting opportunity for a series of stirring stories concerning the fortunes of real Boy Scouts, who have gone into the movement heart and soul, with a desire to excel in all they undertake; and at the same time enjoy themselves hugely. I only hope and trust that you may be pleased with what you read in this book, about the doings of the Red Fox Patrol, of Stanhope Troop, and that the story will do you much good.
Yours faithfully,
George A. Warren.