The Boy Scouts at the Canadian Border
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Boy Scouts at the Canadian Border
CHAPTER I. A GLIMPSE OVER INTO CANADA
CHAPTER II. RUMBLINGS OF COMING TROUBLE
CHAPTER III. BY AEROPLANE ACROSS THE BORDER
CHAPTER IV. AN INVASION OF THE CAMP
CHAPTER V. COMFORTING TUBBY
CHAPTER VI. THE LOGGING CAMP
CHAPTER VII. AN UNWELCOME INTRUDER
CHAPTER VIII. TUBBY HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IX. THE MAN OUTSIDE
CHAPTER X. NEATLY DONE
CHAPTER XI. ZEB MAKES GOOD
CHAPTER XII. A SCOUT’S FIRST DUTY
CHAPTER XIII. A THRILLING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIV. ROB MAKES UP HIS MIND
CHAPTER XV. ON DUTY BENT
CHAPTER XVI. THE STONE CAIRN ON THE BORDER
CHAPTER XVII. LYNX LAW
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRAIL TO THE TRESTLE
CHAPTER XIX. THE HUNT FOR THE WIRE
CHAPTER XX. THE MUNITION TRAIN’S APPROACH
CHAPTER XXI. CUTTING THE BATTERY CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER XXII. LIKE OLD TIMES FOR THE SCOUTS
CHAPTER XXIII. IN SWIFT PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXIV. THOSE WHO SAT BY THE FIRE
CHAPTER XXV. BAD LUCK, AND GOOD
CHAPTER XXVI. EVERYBODY SATISFIED
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“Oh! Did you see that hump on his back, Rob? What could it have been?” gasped Tubby, gripping the sleeve of the other’s khaki coat in his excitement.
“Why, Tubby, don’t you know that was the pirate of the northern woods?” cried the equally aroused Andy, who had also been stupefied while the little drama was being enacted, and only recovered the use of his hands, and realized that he was carrying a gun, when the leaping buck had completely vanished from view.
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“Well, well,” he was heard to say, “you never would believe fortunes could be dug out of such forlorn-looking woods as these. It’s simply wonderful what some men can pick up, when others are as blind as bats in the daytime. I’m going to keep my eyes open. We might run across a diamond field.”
“Well, you may mean that as a joke,” said Rob, “but rare gems have been found around here, which brings up another calling that some men have followed. That is searching all the streams for mussels, because some pretty valuable fresh-water pearls have been discovered, they say, in Maine bivalves.”
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