Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad

se who can't get aboard take the r

that mountain of camp duffle, and other luggage you've got

your way in alongside George Robbins, who's holding down the rear seat with Lil Artha. I've got Alec McGregor be

for most kinds of game, Lil Artha," expostulated the latest passenger, as, f

ht it might be good policy to fetch my little reliable Marlin along, because sometimes

mas," who nearly always had to be shown, and seldom believed any statement unless it were backed up with abundant proof. "Sometimes there are other beasts abroad in the wild woods besid

scouts, called out to them in greeting, and even waved their hats with a salute. Envious eyes followed the car as it sped along in a cloud of dust; for it was pretty generally known

ad loaned them for the occasion, is speeding along, doing very good time as long as

tories in this series do not need to be told that he was a capable and resourceful lad, who through his merits as a first-class scout

oom, so that he now measured a full head taller than any of his mates, he could not shake off the ridiculous appellation. People always smiled w

everything proved before he could "swallow" it. At one time he had been inclined to be thin, and a rather poor hand at meal times; but of late hi

hope that various opportunities for teaching the "tenderfoot squad"-as Lil Artha persisted in calling the pair-all sorts of useful knowledge that sco

in contact with just such an odd fellow. He had been somewhat spoiled by a doting mamma, though Elmer be

rgency arose. On this account he turned out to be somewhat of a failure as a baseball player, for when he saw a high ball driven to his outfield his h

th him in camp for a time. He would show him a score of things such as go to make good scouts,

his tones when talking. Like so many of his kind he was inclined to be a bit pugnacious, and hot-tempered; still Elmer believed him to be both warm-hearted, and as true as steel. After he

r tired of chanting her praises, and often sang ballads, in which "Sweet Jessie, the Flower of Dumblane," occupied the leading

es enough for a regiment, and all sorts of traps in the bargain, so that the car did resemble a m

ad come into possession of a large tract of land, partly heavily wooded, and lying up

all the necessary instruments for the calling of a surveyor, and for several years now Rufus had associated himself at odd times with some p

pon hearing his father say that he distrusted the accuracy of a recent survey that had been given him of

him to re-survey the ground. Indeed, Mr. Snodgrass, who was not blind to the failings of his only son and heir, insisted that he coax Elm

nowith boy he took occasion to have a heart-to-heart talk with Elmer, in which he told the patrol leader how much he hoped asso

is father and Elmer; had he done so he might have rebelled, for he was exceedingly high-spirited. As it wa

hile away. Which fact accounted for the "young grocery store," as Lil Artha termed it, that was taken along. But then, no healthy boy has ever been known to be dism

one through? An hour saw them well on their way. Farmhouses were now becoming "as scarce as hens' teeth," to quote Lil Art

place will agree?" asked the driver of the expedition, who had in the beginning laid down the

t pretty early this morning, and right now I'm feeling about as empty as Si

ion to pick up considerable useful information concerning the region which generally went under the name of Raccoon Bluff, possibly because there chanced to be an

Shock. The oddity of the name impressed the boy, and he asked what t

with a gun over his shoulder. He fishes and hunts out of season. I've seen him spearing trout, and more'n once heard how he was known to be taking meat home in the close season, that couldn't have been sheep or ve

e judging the man harshly. Perhaps Jem Shock might not be such a bad character, on better acquaintance. And Elmer decided tha

st they expected to run across, all of them were keenly on the lookout

ough a piece of woodland where the road was a bit soft and wet, there rang out the nearby report of a rifle, startling them all

road sprang a buck, whose antlers were just reach

a hand toward his gun, though, of course, he never would have thought of using the same while the law protected the game. Then the