w'll yuh do it? Haven't got a thing in my outfit t' pull him out
with."

"Oh, we'll do it all right," said Bruce. Then briefly he outlined his
plan to the skeptical circus manager. And when he had finished talking
the old man looked at him in amazement.

"Can you do all that?" he demanded.

"Sure we can," said Bruce. "We're the Boy Scout Engineers. Just loan me
some of your canvas men who know how to rig a block and tackle and we'll
have the elephant on his way to St. Cloud by daylight at the latest."

"All right, I'll go you," said the manager.

Bruce gathered about him all the Scouts not doing patrol duty.

"Fellows," he said, "we can get the elephant out of the hole all right,
but it will mean some hard work. I want you, Romper, to go back to
Woodbridge and tell the parents of every fellow here that we have serious
work to do. Tell them not to worry if we don't get back until late.
Then I want the Owl Patrol to go to headquarters and get all the No. 10
wire we have on hand, load it on a couple of wheelbarrows and start
stringing a line from our switchboard in the machine shop down to the
quarry hole here.

"String it along the fences and where you have to cross Druery road put
it overhead from tree to tree. Remember, no monkeying with the telegraph
or telephone poles! We can be arrested for anything like that. Romper,
you can stop in and ask Mr. Ford if he won't go up to Headquarters and
connect up the new line. I don't think we should fuss with the
switchboard at night.

"Now, I want the Blue Herons to go to headquarters and disconnect the big
five-horsepower motor on the lathe. Load it aboard 'Old Nanc' and bring
it down here as fast as you can. On your way turn in at Druery road and
run up to the Baldwin quarries. Ask Dave Porter, the night foreman
there, if you can borrow the largest and heaviest blasting mat he has.
We'll need that. Now hurry, fellows."

The Scouts started off immediately, and Bruce turned to the circus
manager.

"Now, if you'll bring your canvas men along, I'll give them a good, hard
job. It's one we boys couldn't handle. Are you ready?"

"Sure!" said the manager. Then to his men, "Come on, boys!"

Bruce led the group around the quarry hole to the north side and pointed
out the derrick and the coil of rusted steel cable.

"Here's what we'll lift the elephant out with, providing the boom will
hold and your men can string the heavy cable through the pulleys at
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