The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters

by Robert Shaler

THE BOY SCOUTS
AS
FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS

BY
SCOUT MASTER ROBERT SHALER

AUTHOR OF “BOY SCOUTS OF THE SIGNAL CORPS,” “BOY SCOUTS OF PIONEER CAMP,” “BOY SCOUTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,” “BOY SCOUTS OF THE LIFE SAVING CREW,” “BOY SCOUTS ON PICKET DUTY,” “BOY SCOUTS OF THE FLYING SQUADRON,” “BOY SCOUTS AND THE PRIZE PENNANT,” “BOY SCOUTS OF THE NAVAL RESERVE,” “BOY SCOUTS IN THE SADDLE,” “BOY SCOUTS FOR CITY IMPROVEMENT,” “BOY SCOUTS IN THE GREAT FLOOD,” “BOY SCOUTS OF THE FIELD HOSPITAL,” “BOY SCOUTS WITH THE RED CROSS,” “BOY SCOUTS AS COUNTY FAIR GUIDES,” ETC.

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1915,
BY
HURST & COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. [Oakvale’s One Wise Man] 5 II. [What Presence of Mind Meant] 16 III. [The Threatening Peril] 27 IV. [The Call of Duty] 39 V. [Carried to the Front] 48 VI. [The Burning Forest] 59 VII. [As Busy as Beavers] 73 VIII. [Back-firing] 85 IX. [Peter, the Bound Boy] 96 X. [At the Dry Spring] 105 XI. [Babes In the Woods] 116 XII. [When the Rain Came Down] 130 XIII. [Right-about Face!] 142

The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters.

CHAPTER I.
OAKVALE’S ONE WISE MAN.

“Don’t believe in it, I tell you! All a humbug! No boy of mine will ever fool away his time strutting around and wearing soldiers’ clothes when he ought to be doing his chores at home! Take that from me, young fellow!”