The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields
CHAPTER I. ANTWERP, ON THE SCHELDT
CHAPTER II. THE AERIAL MAP-MAKER
CHAPTER III. LEAVING FOR THE FRONT
CHAPTER IV. THE DAY OF THE BOY SCOUT
CHAPTER V. UNDER THE BRIDGE
CHAPTER VI. GETTING NEAR THE WAR ZONE
CHAPTER VII. THE DESERTION OF ANTHONY
CHAPTER VIII. WHEN THE UHLANS CAME
CHAPTER IX. WITH FIRE AND SMOKE
CHAPTER X. THE DUTY OF A SCOUT
CHAPTER XI. MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XII. THE MEETING BETWEEN THE LINES
CHAPTER XIII. CAUGHT IN THE ACT
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIELD HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XV. CHASING A JACK-O'-LANTERN
CHAPTER XVI. THE BATTLE FOR THE TRENCHES
CHAPTER XVII. THE BADGE OF COURAGE AND MERCY
CHAPTER XVIII. AFTER THE FIGHTING WAS OVER
CHAPTER XIX. AN IMPORTANT CLUE
CHAPTER XX. THE CAMP FIRES OF AN ARMY
CHAPTER XXI. THE HANGING BRIDGE
CHAPTER XXII. SCOUT TACTICS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FROG HUNTERS
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMORED CAR
CHAPTER XXV. TURNING THE TABLES
CHAPTER XXVI. FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE
CHAPTER XXVII. CONCLUSION
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"He's flying pretty high, let me tell you," said Tubby, straining his neck in an endeavor to watch the evolutions of the far-distant object sailing on the border of the cloud, and which looked so much like a great bird with outstretched wings.
"And all the while he is using his powerful field-glass to watch things going on below," added Rob. "I wouldn't be surprised if those chaps make a rough map, as they go over a place, with the position of forts marked, and the disposition of troops. In this war they say aëroplanes and dirigibles are going to play great stunts."
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"Well, that was a lively little tilt while it lasted," remarked Merritt as, the entertainment being over, the crowds again commenced sauntering back and forth, with everybody talking volubly about the spectacle in the heavens.
Soldiers gave them a curious look in passing. Every stranger in Antwerp was under more or less suspicion in those days, for it was becoming known that the German secret service had for years maintained the most wonderful system of spying in France, England and Belgium ever dreamed of. Antwerp had thousands of Teuton residents before the war, some of them leading merchants who owned splendid country places six or seven miles outside the city, where solid cement tennis courts afterward came in very handy as foundations for the immense German siege guns.
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