A hundred yards from shore he hazarded a backward glance, and saw the wind sweeping across the bay, a line of turbulent tossing spray. ([Page 60]) Frontispiece.
BOY SCOUTS
ON THE TRAIL
BY
JOHN GARTH
PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF
THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
PUBLISHERS
BARSE & CO.
NEW YORK, N. Y. NEWARK, N. J.
Copyright, 1920
by
BARSE & CO.
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I [The Camp on Long Point] 9 II [Forbidden Fruit] 17 III [The Shark] 26 IV [The Man in the Dory] 33 V [Perplexed] 44 VI [Loon Island] 50 VII [The Lightning Flash] 57 VIII [The Plot] 64 IX [Through Storm and Darkness] 71 X [His Bit] 77 XI [The Last Night] 86 XII [“What is Scouting For?”] 94 XIII [The Tallerico Kid] 101 XIV [Quick Wit and Courage] 110 XV [The Scout Rally] 119 XVI [Roughneck Garrity] 127 XVII [Learning to Box] 135 XVIII [The Boy Who Couldn’t Swim] 141 XIX [A Score is Paid] 147 XX [The Haunted Cabin] 155 XXI [The Log Cabin Fund] 165 XXII [The Appeal] 173 XXIII [Good Turns Like Chickens] 180 XXIV [The Face in the Window] 186 XXV [The Man with No Hair] 193 XXVI [The Hidden Wireless] 201 XXVII [Micky Disappears] 207 XXVIII [To the Rescue] 213 XXIX [Escape] 221 XXX [The Lonely Soldier] 230 XXXI [The Parting of the Ways] 241