Copyright, 1914, by Hurst & Company.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. [Great Expectations] 5 II. [Forming the Signal Corps] 21 III. [A Perilous Encounter] 35 IV. [A Fire in Camp] 48 V. [Reveille] 65 VI. [The Chosen Few] 81 VII. [The End of the Hike] 97 VIII. [An Unexpected Reproof] 113 IX. [The Sham Battle] 128 X. [Around the Council-Fire] 140 XI. [A Mountain Adventure] 152
The Boy Scouts of the Signal Corps
CHAPTER I.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
“Hi! you, Billy Worth!” cried the leader of the Wolf patrol, a tall youth of seventeen named Hugh Hardin, addressing his assistant. “Scramble out of that bunky, my boy, in two wags of a Wolf’s tail, or I’ll have scout’s law on you!”
“All right, chief! Coming!” was the prompt response, as Billy, thus adjured, turned over in his bunk and thrust one long leg over the edge.
His bare brown foot, dangling perilously near the head of another boy whose bunk was beneath Billy’s, proved too great a temptation for the lad. Pulling a whisp of straw from his mattress, he proceeded to tickle the sole of that foot, thereby causing Billy to elevate it hastily with a loud squeal.
As he did so, Hugh made a dexterous sweep of his arms, and, grasping Billy around the knees, almost flung him over one broad shoulder and deposited him none too gently on the floor.
“Ouch!” whooped Billy.