The Boy Scouts Patrol

Jack, opening his eyes in astonishment at the

ck's surprise. "I don't sleep on the ground

aid--" cont

I go on a march I don't carry all these things with me. What

Rand, who was looking at the trophies of the chase that h

p I made up in the Canadian Northwest, and it was a narrow escape f

"I didn't know that an elk c

" replied the colonel. "You have read of the Engli

Hood," pu

"The Indians were dangerous foes, too, even wh

used Rand, drawing back one of the bows, a feat that req

ounseled Donald. "Yo

ian patrol, and we can

h thinking about,

t, colonel," said Jack, "but I am afraid i

too l

we were starting for

ll walk back with you, and we can talk it over as w

e four of us,"

d two more to

go out?" was Jack's irrelevant qu

one to bother us up here in the woods. Do you thi

as," declared Pepper, "

ing me some of my own advice, aren't you? Always be pr

returned with a padlock wit

join us," began Jack, taking up

exclaimed Rand i

ter with him?" a

janitor at the bank,

about him?" cont

lied Rand

yly, "I see. I suppose yo

"Rand read it to us, but

the colonel musingly, "h

ry other scout, no matter to what social class the other belongs. A sc

omment, and the boys

nd after a little hesitation.

to what class the man who is fighting alongside of us belongs, and this is a battle you are going into, one to make th

d Rand, "and I

class, at schoo

poetry," ad

" asked th

ral

onel gravely, "but perhaps

ended from Tom Moor

inst him," suggested Donald. "I

on," proposed Jack. "He

d the others, "it'

sider that settled. When you are ready let me know an

" the boys

had left the boat, and Pepper, who had run on ahead, suddenly

e matter?"

t," stamme

atter with it?

g-g-

ere?" dem

plied Pepper. "All I kn

here was no bo