Under Boy Scout Colors

by Joseph Bushnell Ames

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Published September, 1917

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TO
THE MEMBERS OF TROOP FIVE

FROM A GRATEFUL SCOUTMASTER

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER	PAGE
I	The Live Wire	[3]
II	The New Tenderfoot	[12]
III	The Silver Lining	[26]
IV	On the Gridiron	[39]
V	Trouble Ahead	[53]
VI	The Quarrel	[65]
VII	In the Last Quarter	[77]
VIII	The Good Turn	[86]
IX	An Odd Thanksgiving	[96]
X	The Surprise	[108]
XI	Elkhorn Cabin	[121]
XII	A Cry in the Night	[130]
XIII	What They Found	[140]
XIV	The Boy Who Couldn’t Swim	[147]
XV	The Rescue	[157]
XVI	Trexler’s Transformation	[171]
XVII	Dale’s Chance	[184]
XVIII	A Question of Money	[193]
XIX	The Accident	[202]
XX	First Aid	[212]
XXI	Lost Mine Hill	[223]
XXII	Around the Council Fire	[232]
XXIII	A Surprise for Vedder	[237]
XXIV	The Missing Scout	[243]
XXV	Lost Mine Found	[253]
XXVI	The Wish of His Heart	[264]
XXVII	The Surprise	[272]
XXVIII	War	[282]
XXIX	“Every Scout to Feed a Soldier”	[294]
XXX	The Silver Cross	[301]
XXXI	The Riot Wedge	[308]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
He jerked backward with all the strength he could summon	[Frontispiece]
“Aw, quit it, fellows! It wasn’t anything”	[43]
“What d’you want?” he demanded	[99]
The stick slid over the jagged edges of the hole	[153]
The car crashed into the weather-worn railing of the bridge	[209]
In an instant he was surrounded by excited boys	[257]
“Ranny!” he exclaimed impulsively. “You–you–”	[269]
“Hold fast, boys!” he cried. “Brace your feet and don’t let them break the line”	[311]

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