Copyright, 1915, by Hurst & Company
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. [Signs of Coming Trouble] 5 II. [Stranded Far Away from Home] 18 III. [On the Tottering Bridge] 32 IV. [An Honor to the Wolf Patrol] 46 V. [Scouts to the Rescue] 57 VI. [A Lucky Meeting] 73 VII. [The Helping Hand] 85 VIII. [The Dawn of the Scouts’ Day] 96 IX. [Gathering Them In] 107 X. [Mr. Jasper Changes His Mind] 119 XI. [A Daring Rescue] 130 XII. [Well-earned Praise] 142
The Boy Scouts in the Great Flood.
CHAPTER I.
SIGNS OF COMING TROUBLE.
“I’m sick of seeing it raining, and that’s a fact, Hugh. Seems to me it’s been pouring down in bucketfuls for a whole week now!”
“Three days, to be exact, Billy. The worst is yet to come, I’m afraid.”
“You’ll have to explain that conundrum to me, Hugh, because I don’t seem to catch on to what you mean.”
“Stop and think what a tremendous lot of snow fell last winter, Billy. Everybody in Oakvale said it beat the record. And now they report that it’s started melting at a great rate in the mountains. And here’s the rain and sudden warm weather.”
“That would be a bad combination, for a fact!”