CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. [Time Things Began to Mend] 5 II. [Help Wanted] 15 III. [“Strike While the Iron Is Hot!”] 29 IV. [Waiting for the Good News] 39 V. [Oakvale’s Great Clean-up Day] 49 VI. [The Promise of a Scout] 58 VII. [How the “Uplift” Worked] 69 VIII. [One Use for Woodcraft Knowledge] 80 IX. [The Goal in Sight] 92 X. [Benjy’s Suspicious Actions] 106 XI. [The Revelation] 115 XII. [Clear Sailing Ahead] 124 XIII. [Putting the Clamps On] 133 XIV. [For Home Protection] 147
The Boy Scouts For Home Protection.
CHAPTER I.
TIME THINGS BEGAN TO MEND.
“Here it is springtime again, boys!”
“Yes, and I’m beginning to catch the spring fever. I just feel—well, torpid would describe it. I hate to study, or do any work that requires the least exertion.”
“Hey, Billy, there’s one great exception you’ll have to make when you say that—you’ve never let that torpor interfere with your rapid locomotion when you heard the welcome sound of the dinner bell.”
The fat boy in the new khaki suit allowed a broad, good-natured smile to spread over his freckled face.
“Oh, that’s different!” he exclaimed quickly. “I said work, please remember, Alec, and as for feeding, why, I always class that under the head of undiluted, unadulterated pleasure.”
“Well, winter has come and gone, with a whole lot of talk about town improvement in the air, and nothing done, just as you were saying, Hugh.”