The Forest Pilot: A Story for Boy Scouts

The November sun that had been red and threatening all day, slowly disappeared behind a cloud bank. The wind that had held steadily to the south for a week, now shifted suddenly...

It seemed only a moment later that Larry was roused by a thumping on the planks over his head. Half awake, and shivering with cold, he rubbed his eyes and tried to think where h...

The next thing Larry knew he was being roused by old Martin’s vigorous shakes. Something cold was pressing against his cheek,--the black muzzle of one of the malamoots. Martin a...

At daylight the next morning old Martin roused the boy, reminding him that he “was to begin learning his trade” that day. “And there are many things to learn about this land-pil...

It had been a hard day’s work for both of them, and strange as everything was to Larry, and awful as the black woods seemed as he peeped out beyond the light of the fire, he had...

Sometime in the middle of the night Larry was awakened by flakes of snow driven into his face, and by the sound of the storm howling around the tent. The flakes sputtered in the...

“My goodness, boy,” the old hunter said the next morning at breakfast, “I do wish you could handle a pair of snow-shoes. We’d start for home to-morrow, if you could. For the cru...

“There’s a storm brewing,” he said. “The moon and the stars showed it last night, and I can feel it in the air this morning. But we may be able to get across before it strikes u...

Early the next morning Martin roused Larry for breakfast. The old man had been up an hour and was ready to start on his hunt as soon as breakfast was finished, but he had let th...

In this way he passed the long, terrible hours of the night. But as soon as it began to grow light he untied the dogs, and took a circle of several miles through the woods, hopi...

Martin was in fine spirits when Larry finally crawled out of his sleeping bag and set about getting breakfast next morning. The injured leg was stiff and useless, to be sure, bu...

Martin and Larry were roused the next morning at daylight by the dogs who were barking excitedly in their shed outside. Evidently some animal was approaching the hut too close f...