# The Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire

Author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916; Prittie, Edwin John, 1879-1963 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43218

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Boy+Patrol+Around+the+Council+Fire+Ellis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

You will recall that one day in a recent August, Jack Crandall, a member of the Stag Patrol of Boy Scouts, who with the Blazing Arrow and Eagle Patrols was spending the summer vacation on the shore of Gosling Lake, in Southern Maine, met with a serious accident. In climbing a tall pine to inspect a bird’s nest, he fell to the ground and broke his leg. His companions, Gerald Hume and Arthur Mitchell, belonging to the same Patrol, made a litter upon which he was carried to the clubhouse. Dr. Spellman, staying with his wife and little daughter Ruth, christened “Sunbeam” by Mike Murphy, in answer to a signal, paddled across the lake in his canoe, set the fractured limb and did all that was ne...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI — A Patriot Martyr](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX — An Unwelcome Guest](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV — The True Story of a Famous Sea Serpent](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII — Wonderful Work](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII — Concerning Certain New England Birds](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV — “The Latchstring Was Inside!](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV — The Men Who Laughed](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V — Concerning Certain American Trees](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI — Zip](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II — A Slight Miscalculation](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII — A Match of Wits](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII — Groping After the Truth](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII — The Committee of Investigation](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III — A Strange Occurrence](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I — “He and I Must Never Meet](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI — An Unsatisfactory Interview](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV — And the Last](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX — The Final Test](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI — Call For Help](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX — Speed the Parting Guest](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV — Curious Sights And Doings](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII — Groping In the Dark](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII — A Fortunate Meeting](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X — A Sudden Separation](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII — A Council of War](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-patrol-around-the-council-fire-43218/chapters/8/index.md)