The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber; Or, The Search for the Lost Tenderfoot

Step Hen asked the question. Perhaps he was a little tired himself, for the four scouts had been constantly on the go since early morning, and it was now getting well on into th...

Of course these words from their comrade gave the other three Boy Scouts quite a shock. Giraffe was on his knees by the fire, and he immediately started to crane his neck, twist...

"Hold on to the rock, Davy! We'll get you out!" whooped Giraffe, greatly excited, so that Thad, believing the tall scout meditated jumping after the boy who was already at the m...

"Everybody's getting bears but me," Bumpus was saying on the following day, when, a new camp having been selected, further removed from the noise of the rapids, the boys decided...

"Oh! he knocked him over!" shrieked Step Hen, who had managed in some mysterious way to get possession of his own gun, and was visibly disappointed because it began to look as t...

Consternation had undoubtedly fallen upon the camp of the scouts, just as though a wet blanket had suddenly been thrown on some pet project. It would have been a matter of more...

Of course this was a mere matter of form, because everybody knew that the entire membership of the Silver Fox Patrol, connected with the Cranford Troop of Boy Scouts, was presen...

Step Hen had not kept exactly with his mates; had he done so the trouble that was now upon him might not have happened. Encouraged by his success of the preceding day, when he h...

"Yes, I know how you feel," the scoutmaster went on, "and it does you a lot of credit too, for scouts should stand by each other through thick and thin. But go slow, Step Hen, g...

Somehow, it seemed as though the eyes of Step Hen and Giraffe must be getting more accustomed to the way obstacles could be avoided; or else the woods had become a little more o...

"I said Bumpus could do it, didn't I?" questioned Step Hen. "Why, with the great run of luck he's camping alongside now, that pard of ours could go into the lion and elephant co...

When the young scoutmaster chose to, he could put a world of meaning in his voice. And those two timber cruisers, upon seeing both guns covering them so steadily, doubtless real...

"Hurrah!" exclaimed Step Hen, not in a shout, but cautious like, as became a scout when danger was near; still, he was thrilled by the information which this announcement from G...

After being without fresh meat for some little time now, that venison certainly did taste prime. And no doubt it was doubly sweet to Step Hen, who had made the best shot of his...

"Why, consarn it all, Pierre, they're on'y a pack o' boys arter all, and not sojers," the larger man exclaimed, staring hard at the four scouts, some of whom wore various parts...

Giraffe, seeing him going on, pushed to his side; and when the two of them came close to the object that had gripped their attention, they turned to exchange stares.

Step Hen was not alone in feeling angry at this action on the part of the two unscrupulous timber cruisers. Every one of the scouts experienced a degree of indignation that migh...

Some little time passed. Gradually the storm was passing away in the distance, where they could still hear the constant growl and mutter of the thunder. But those near-by crashe...

Giraffe was standing there, twisting that long neck of his this way and that. He declined to say anything until Thad had arrived on the scene. Then, with an expressive pose, he...

In the midst of such a confusion of dreadful sounds, and knowing that in another minute or so they would be overtaken by the storm, it was little wonder that Thad's heart seemed...

"A land-slide!" exclaimed Giraffe, as he sat up, and began twisting his long neck around, as though doubtful whether he should dodge to the right or to the left, since it was di...

"P'raps Bumpus plugged him," Giraffe suggested, just as though he were speaking of some celebrated forest ranger, accustomed to meeting up with these terrors of the Rockies, rat...

No doubt the first thought that flashed through his mind was that those two unscrupulous timber cruisers must in some remarkable manner have learned of their coming again, as on...

"Hear that," added Giraffe, and then he went on: "I say, Thad, don't you think we'd better let up on this trail business, and hunt for a place where we might sit out the storm?"

"But," said Giraffe, when Allan mentioned this fact, "if we're only holding our own, that means we'll never glimpse the poor old chap in a week, 'less he just drops down from be...

Welcome indeed, was the sight of the two familiar tents, with a cheery camp-fire blazing in front; Mike and Molly, the two pack mules, browsing near by, and the three boys who h...

Of course there was no use of trying to hide any longer. Thad and Allan knew this, and that the time had come for them to back Bumpus up, the minute they saw him open hostilitie...