CHAPTER PAGE [I. The Camp.] 3 [II. What Frightened the Pack Mules.] 13 [III. When the Foxes Took to the Trees.] 26 [IV. Bumpus Takes a Chance.] 38 [V. The Missing Tenderfoot.] 50 [VI. Forced to Think for Himself.] 62 [VII. Turning the Tables.] 78 [VIII. A Scout Should Always be on the Alert.] 87 [IX. The Mean Trick Of The Timber Cruisers.] 96 [X. The Bob-Cat.] 106 [XI. Bumpus’ Stock Above Par.] 115 [XII. The Swoop of the Storm.] 123 [XIII. The Bolt of Lightning.] 131 [XIV. Step Hen Looks Out for the Provisions.] 139 [XV. through the Big Timber Again.] 147 [XVI. the Snake Bite.] 155 [XVII. More Trouble Ahead.] 164 [XVIII. Still in Pursuit, with the Trail Growing Warmer.] 172 [XIX. another Shock.] 181 [XX. finding Out How Bumpus Did It.] 189 [XXI. Caught in a Trap.] 198 [XXII. The Cripple Business Seems to be Contagious.] 206 [XXIII. the Way Blocked.] 219 [XXIV. the “Little Lightning.”] 227 [XXV. “Catching a Tartar;” and a Fat One at That.] 235 [XXVI. “Tenderfoot? Well, Hardly, After This.”] 243 [XXVII. Well-Earned Rest—Conclusion.] 250
THE BOY SCOUTS
THROUGH THE BIG TIMBER
CHAPTER I.
THE CAMP.
“Call the roll, Mr. Secretary,” said the acting scoutmaster.
Of course this was a mere matter of form, because everybody knew that the entire membership of the Silver Fox Patrol, connected with the Cranford Troop of Boy Scouts, was present. But nevertheless Bob White gravely took out his little book, and made each boy answer to his name.
“Thad Brewster.”
“Present,” said the patrol leader, and assistant scoutmaster.
“Allan Hollister.”
“Here,” replied the second in command, a Maine boy, now living in Cranford, the New York town from whence these boys had journeyed to this far-off region along the foothills of the great Rocky Mountains.
“Bumpus Hawtree.”