The Boy Scouts as County Fair Guides

by Robert Shaler

Copyright, 1915, by Hurst & Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. [Back From the Fishing Hole] 5 II. [The Great Undertaking] 16 III. [On Duty at the Fair] 28 IV. [The Fakir and His Dupe] 40 V. [A Credit to the Uniform] 52 VI. [“Strike While the Iron Is Hot!”] 63 VII. [Sowing the Seed] 74 VIII. [A Scout in Trouble] 85 IX. [The Rift in the Cloud] 96 X. [One Boy’s Influence] 108 XI. [Backed by the Scouts] 120 XII. [At the Station] 131 XIII. [How It Turned Out] 142 XIV. [Stopped on the Road—Conclusion] 148

The Boy Scouts as County Fair Guides.

CHAPTER I.
BACK FROM THE FISHING HOLE.

“You know, boys, a whole lot depends on what kind of weather we have during Fair week!”

“How about that, Arthur? You’re the weather-wise scout of Oakvale Troop.”

“Yes, give us your forecast, Arthur; has the rain let up for keeps?”

“So far as that goes, Alec, I notice in the morning paper it’s turned clear all the way from the Rockies east, and that ought to mean a good spell of several days for us.”

“Unless one of those howlers comes twisting up the Atlantic coast from the West Indies; you want to remember that the hurricane season isn’t quite over yet.”