Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The Boy Patrol on Guard
One bright sunshiny day in the summer of 1912, a boy some seventeen years old awoke to the fact that he had lost his way in the depth of the woods of southern Maine.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I—A Prospective Tenderfoot
One bright sunshiny day in the summer of 1912, a boy some seventeen years old awoke to the fact that he had lost his way in the depth of the woods of southern Maine.
2. CHAPTER II—Lost In the WoodsAt Boothbay Harbor, Mike Murphy hired Sherb Doloff to take him in his small motor boat _Sunshine_ to Hailstone Point. It was the season when the days are long, and the sun was o...
3. CHAPTER III—The Hermit of the WoodsThe reply to Mike’s hail was so prompt that he thought it was the echo of his own voice. He looked in the direction whence the answer came, and, seeing nothing to account for it...
4. CHAPTER IV—The Training of the TenderfootUncle Elk turned around and stepped off with a moderate but firm tread, using his staff more for pleasure than from necessity. He did not look around, taking it for granted that...
5. CHAPTER V—How “Knot” to Do Several ThingsEvery day sailors, explorers, mechanics and mountain-climbers risk their lives on the knots that they tie. Thousands of lives have been sacrificed to ill-made knots. The scout t...
6. CHAPTER VI—How Two Millionaires Did a Good TurnGideon Landon sat talking with his friend Franklin Haynes in the city home of the former one cold evening in the early spring of 1912. You may recall that they had been estrange...
7. CHAPTER VII—On Gosling LakeThe body of water referred to, which for certain reasons I shall call Gosling Lake—though that is not its real name—is of irregular form, about two miles long from east to west,...
8. CHAPTER VIII—The “Instructor In WoodcraftThe ball game having ended so summarily, the Patrols gathered once more on the slope in front of the clubhouse to decide what should be done during the remainder of the forenoon.
9. CHAPTER IX—The New TenderfootThe next day was as sunshiny, clear and delightful as any that had greeted the Boy Scouts since their visit to Maine. As before, they prepared their morning meal out of doors, c...
10. CHAPTER X—A Few Native Trees“My first plan was to climb to the top,” said he with that gravity which he knew so well how to assume, “but I feared I should tumble before I could complete the measuring of th...
11. CHAPTER XI—A Lesson In Trailing“Halt!” The Boy Scouts were tramping forward, chatting and laughing and paying less attention than at first to the varieties of trees which constantly appeared before them. It w...
12. CHAPTER XII—How It Was Done“Uncle Elk, I don’t think any of the boys have a flint and steel, and I am sure I do not possess them; matches are so cheap and convenient that we have discarded the method of o...
13. CHAPTER XIII—A Bit of Detective WorkLess than half a mile farther brought the troop of Boy Scouts to the home of Elkanah Sisum, their Instructor in Woodcraft. Naturally he took the lead, with Scout Master Hall nex...
14. CHAPTER XIV—The Story of Johnny AppleseedIt has already been made clear to you that the sojourn of the troop of Boy Scouts in the southern Maine woods during this summer was simply a vacation in which there was a relax...
15. CHAPTER XV—Other NeighborsUncle Elk declined the invitation of Scout Master Hall to stay over night at the bungalow, and bidding his friends good bye, with the promise soon to see them again, he went for...
16. CHAPTER XVI—The Sunbeam of Gosling LakeThe lugubrious voice of Mike Murphy accompanied as it was by a faint moan, drew every eye upon him. The sight of his red, freckled face and robust looks caused the others to bre...
17. CHAPTER XVII—An “Injin” StoryThe doctor and his little daughter stood at the landing, the mother remaining at the house, and watched the canoe as it put out from the shore and headed toward the bungalow on...
18. CHAPTER XVIII—The Echo of a World TragedySunday proved the most dismal day during the outing of the Boy Scouts in the woods of Southern Maine. The rain which set in on the previous evening continued, with only an occas...
19. CHAPTER XIX—A Queen And Her SubjectsThe skies cleared during the night, and the day which succeeded was perfect. Not a cloud rift obscured the sun, while the air was crystalline, free from moisture and with enough...
20. CHAPTER XX—What Did It Mean?Meanwhile a singular experience befell Dr. Spellman and his wife. After their departure from the bungalow, they glided smoothly in the canoe toward the eastern end of Gosling La...
21. CHAPTER XXI—How It HappenedJack Crandall, Arthur Mitchell and Gerald Hume were members of the Stag Patrol, and the age of each was slightly more than fourteen years. Jack was tall, muscular and had an inc...
22. CHAPTER XXII—SunshineAmid the tense stillness, with the group of sympathetic spectators motionless and attentive, the surgeon performed his duty with the deftness and skill of long experience. Jack...