The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition

Had I better take charge of the same

hey could see, was in gala attire. Bunting and flags were everywhere visible; and it was evident that the good people of San Francisco, in spite of many great discouragements, s

Hiram," the scout leader remarked, "

then?" cried Hiram, as though puzz

plan down at Los Angeles,

, Rob?" demanded the owner of the said packet that had been giving th

e one in whom he felt such abiding faith. "Then, no matter what you find

and mebbe losing the precious documents that are to prove my case with the Golden Gate folks. I'll go to

of his own it contained, and now it held only the precious documents and other small exhibits that Professor McEwen had

pyramid, and said to have come down from thousands of years back. To the boys these would not have been worth their bulk in sandwiches, possibly, because they could not appreciate their intrinsic value; but in the

million fireflies had lighted on it," announced Andy, with more or less excitement as they fou

he bargain. They've certainly chosen a splendid spot for the Fair, fronting, as it does, on the

monster seesaw, with one arm away up hundreds of feet in the air, and what looks l

the harbor, the Exposition grounds and the city, we'll find ourselves just th

things on a big scale out

e swim with this show," Andy declared, as they p

these buildings so well that he appeared to recognize them now as though entirely familiar with his surroundings. It was

e of Agriculture, while this other must be the Palace of Transportation; then there's the Palace of Horticulture where you can see

these sights wit

these big buildings as if we were in Hampton, and lookin' at our Odd Fellows' Temple. But what a heap of thin

ay want to spend most of my time in a certain quarter that wouldn't interest you other fellows to any great extent; and on your

dy started

l his time at the show," he remarked, pointedly; and of course the

ou know so much, Mr. S

re the inventions are being exhibited. He's daffy on mechanics and such things; and he'll be worse than any sticking plaster

ce you get in that amusement park they call the Zone, a place of more'n sixty acres, I read, you'll spend most of your time watching the F

as sight-seeing; but it's different in my case. I'm carefree, and bound to enjoy myself to the limit. In good time I'll wan

und-up. If each one is going to start off on his own hook, now and then, unless we fix it that way, we migh

obacconist shop as our rendezvous. We can make an arrangement with the owner for a co

and pins while being kept from hunting up the building in which he would find myriads of remarkable dev

fter they had arranged with the proprietor of the Oriental tobacco booth, "because I'll not feel

oo, I suppose, Rob,"

started to say, when Andy brace

t would be a fine way of acting on my part, now, wouldn't it-taking the goods and then refusing to pay for the same? Here, let me carry the bag a while. I'm goi

laug

As for Hiram, I can understand why he's so anxious to find out where the aviation field lies. We've g

at I want to pick up a few pointers on the sly before I show myself to the Golden Gate people. By h

we had it arranged to back you up when the time came to interview y

be rash, and put my foot in it. I promise you I'll fight shy there, Rob; and when

, seriously; "though for that matter it seems to me this company has

ion, "think of the great times I'm going to have mousing around the building that houses the inven

the scouts possessed, and which gave what might be called a "bird's-eye view" of the extensive Exposition gr

a smile on his face. He

crank in his line you

over inventions, but what of that? Every fellow who's dead in earnest could be spoken of as

eads, though they get hopping mad if you mention it, or turn your hand this way," and he ind

waste any more time here, Andy; I've got my bearings by now, and can take you straight to the building wher