The Boy Scouts and the Prize Pennant

by Robert Shaler

THE BOY SCOUTS
AND
THE PRIZE PENNANT

BY
SCOUT MASTER ROBERT SHALER

AUTHOR OF “THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE SIGNAL CORPS,” “THE BOY SCOUTS OF PIONEER CAMP,” “THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,” “THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE LIFE SAVING CREW,” ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914,
BY
HURST & COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. [The Value of Woodcraft] 5 II. [The Lesson of the Riven Oak] 18 III. [Scout Law] 32 IV. [Getting Convincing Proof] 46 V. [The Wrecked Balloon] 59 VI. [Engineering in a Treetop] 72 VII. [“First Aid to the Injured”] 84 VIII. [The Value of Strategy] 95 IX. [Out for a Record] 107 X. [A Big Count for the Wolf Patrol] 121 XI. [The Field Tests] 134 XII. [Victory Well Won] 148

Boy Scouts and the Prize Pennant.

CHAPTER I.
THE VALUE OF WOODCRAFT.

“Wasn’t that the far-away hoot of an owl just then, Mr. Scout Master?”