The Boy Scout Fire Fighters; Or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed

d had at his disposal, therefore, when he led them across the open fields toward the burning mountain, about twenty q

o was Jack Danby's particular chum among the Scouts, a

Jack. "There's no water at all, and the only

ty dangerous

he wants to do and exactly how to do it. But I guess

e sees it, isn't it, Jack? If they let that fire alone, Bob Hart s

until they see it. They think that just because there nev

ld Mountain before, though,

for the last two months, and everything is fearfully dry. If the brooks were full the fire wouldn't be s

axes were out now, and the sharp knives that each Scout carried were also ready for instant use. Durland, at the head of the

tream was directly before them, and on the other side was the land that had bee

a couple of Scouts and get them. I want those shovels, whether they want to lend them to you or no

le on his lips, and the light of battle in his eyes. "We'll

med to have no curiosity, even when three of the Scouts left the main body, and went over to the farmhouse. There Dick and the others found a woman, hatchet faced an

re! You're worse'n tramps, you boys be, running over honest people's

plained Dick Crawford, politely, trying to hide

ce we'd have of ever seeing them ag'in if we let you hav

yet, wild or tame, that he had ever seen, with which he could not make friends. He dropped to one knee now, while the others watched him, and spoke to the dog. I

make friends with anyone who is unworthy, ma'am. Don'

s here," said the wom

h other farm implements, under a pile of brushwood. He leaped over to this pile now, suddenly, before the loutish boy who was helping with the potatoes cou

ke a hand herself, physically. "I'm sorry we had to help ourselves, but it

g after them, and trying to induce the dog

ified the means, this was the time. We had to have those shovels, and it's j

load so that each of the others had some shovels to carry. They made a heavy load, even so, and

ution like that it would be simply hastening destruction of the property we are trying to save, and it would be better not to interfere at all than to do that. With t

ached the stream with their precious burden of shovels, picked out the strongest Scouts and set them to wor

of rock quarries, where there was absolutely nothing that the fire could feed on. Therefore, if it hadn't been checked, it would hav

et deep and seven or eight feet wide, extending for nearly two hundred feet. On the side of this furthes

trench, but to make sure, you will all stay lined up on your side of the ditch, and beat out eve

ning. The rate at which the little fire they set spread, showed beyond a doubt how quickly

aid Tom Binns. "It's just as if they'd started

anger will be pretty well over by tonight, for the time being, at leas

rks. "The smoke darkens the sky so that all weather signs fail. The sun glows red through it, and you can't really t

ack," said Pete Stubbs. "You never seem to be wrong, and since I've

ot always right, by a good deal, but the sky and the trees and the birds are pretty good

working until after midnight to get the hay in, just because they were sure there'd b

ans the difference between a good year and a bad year, often. Many a farm has been lost just b

as this fellow, they deserve to

and he looks mad e

urdy sons and a couple of farm hands, who grinned as if they neither knew no

e shouted. "This is my land, I reckon. Be off

up to a regular fury, and it might have fared ill with the Patrol

g forward. And, before the astonished farmer realized what the

ushing up just then. "Shame on you, my man!

m the blazing mountain, that was now a real torch. The fire had passed beyond the stage of the slow burning circle that

ee now how it would have eaten tha

ened ground, where the saving flames Durland had lighted had had their will. As far as that space came the big fire. Then, because there was nothing left to

e! I say, stranger, I guess I was a leetle mite hasty just now. You've saved us

he people thought they were safe, and I have learned that the only way to fight fire is with more fire. Also, that you never can tell what a big fire is going to do, and that the only way to be

farmer, "and the wife will give you a supper that you d

r the Scouts had had no time to cook their own supper. He felt, t