The Boy Scouts for City Improvement

by Robert Shaler

THE BOY SCOUTS
FOR
CITY IMPROVEMENT

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,” ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914,
BY
HURST & COMPANY

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE. I. [Under the Spreading Oak] 5 II. [A Friend in Need] 17 III. [The Fire Call] 30 IV. [Willing Workers] 43 V. [Repairing Damages] 56 VI. [On Duty] 69 VII. [The Alarm] 82 VIII. [Mocking the Mayor] 95 IX. [What Scouts Know] 108 X. [The Accusation] 121 XI. [The Turning Point] 133 XII. [Thanks to the Scouts] 151

The Boy Scouts for City Improvement.

CHAPTER I.
UNDER THE SPREADING OAK.

“I guess old summer must have forgotten something and has come back to find it again, eh, Billy?”