Douglas Alan Captain. Storm-Bound: or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts
CHAPTER I. ON THE WRONG TRACK
CHAPTER II. A STRANGE PLACE TO CAMP
CHAPTER III. THE LONG NIGHT
CHAPTER IV. SNOW-BOUND
CHAPTER V. WANDERING THROUGH THE DRIFTS
CHAPTER VI. IN THE FROZEN MARSH
CHAPTER VII. LIL ARTHA SAVES THE DAY
CHAPTER VIII. A PRIZE IN THE TRAP
CHAPTER IX. THE COMING OF UNCLE CALEB
CHAPTER X. POSSESSION NINE POINTS OF THE LAW
CHAPTER XI. THE CHIMNEY JUMPER
CHAPTER XII. SCOUTS IN CLOVER
CHAPTER XIII. THE OBJECT LESSON
CHAPTER XIV. THE QUEER ACTIONS OF ZACK ARNOLD
CHAPTER XV. A SCOUT'S EDUCATION
CHAPTER XVI. GOOD-BY TO THE SNOW FOREST
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"I'm surprised at you saying it's going to snow, George," Lil Artha remarked, as he turned on the doubting scout; "because it'd be more like you to tell us ten flakes didn't make a storm, and that anyway there was always a chance of it giving us the go-by. Guess you're tired, and want to snuggle down close to a warm fire, which would explain why you give in so easy-like."
"Just as you please, so long as we do camp," replied the other, as he began to undo the straps that secured his hamper to his back.
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All around it they banked up the loose wood, until Toby declared they had fully enough to do an army.
"Don't you believe it," said Lil Artha, an authority on fires among his fellow scouts; "you'd be s'prised to see what an enormous amount of wood a fire eats up in a single night; and like as not we may have to hold the fort a week, just as Elmer said. Keep on fetching it a little while longer, boys."
