The Boy Scouts Patrol

m, and they turned quickly to meet the smiling glance of

bearing. Quick and alert, in spite

d Jack in astonishment; "

," replied the colonel, "and I walked down to meet you

ey Rae made a raid on the commissary a

over," continued the colonel.

"he upset the stove and s

colonel in scorn. "What

a stove," replied Pepper, "an

When you are out on a tramp all you need is a kn

eplied Jack,

't use more than one match to light a fire. Why, when I was o

imed Pepper, "tha

f them. That's the kind. And, Pepper, you and Don bring up a lot of that clay from down there by the water. That's the stuff. Now wrap your fish up in a coat of clay

e going to cook them in

eplied the colonel. "Build a g

ith a clam bake

n two layers on a flat rock. "Now put your leaves on--not too many--lay on your piec

which flickered for

ed the colonel,

tter," said Jack,

y one. Now, suppose we are out on the plains and thi

hen he struck the match, shielding it with his hand until it blazed up, and then

nemy swooping down on us again. Don't you think it wou

Rand, "although I don't th

ays think he will do the most unlikely thing. A good scout

enemy's country, wherever Monkey is. I'll take the first turn," going off and circl

be pretty nearly cooked. Rake one of them out, Don, and try it

d in the operation. "Couldn't be bett

. "Now, see how well you can do it. Do it just as I did an

do when that is g

ory," laughed the colonel.

ously voting it the best dinner they had ever eaten, "I know you al

"we were talking about you

ot a little shack down here in the woods and whenever I get tired of town

y for us," int

the one covered with bark. We saw it as we cam

hat, were you, Pepper?" answered the colone

st interesting

y were out in force," he added w

that?" as

the colonel. "There

" cried Rand. "G

he colonel, "there

d Sam Hopkins and Red Bu

with them?" wen

m?" asked Jack. "I wonder

with a limp," cont

ed Jack. "What was he

. "I only see his track.

u see that?"

of a foot on the dirt and here is another. Here is a bigger and a heavier one; a man made

er. "You have hardly looked at them, and I could

lain as day. There wasn't any attempt to hide it. Why, out on the pla

opinion," confessed Don

distance, losing it every now and then and picking it up again, Rand being the quickest

fter a while, when they had lost it

ended the colonel. "They went off here, I thin

, numerous windows, and had a small porch in front. It was ceiled inside and scantily furnished with a few chairs, a couple of tables and a couch, but the walls were ornamented with the heads of deer and el