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of you."

"The saints forbid!" exclaimed Pat. Nevertheless he looked pleased.

"Bronx Park! All out!" sang out the guards.

Once out of the car the patrol fell into line and with Upton in the lead
headed for the park. Once inside the turnstiles he called a conference,
"You fellows know what we planned to do to-day," he began, "but that was
before we knew that we were to have the honor of Corporal Malone as our
guest. You know he is something of a naturalist, and there are a lot of
animals and birds and snakes and things here that I expect he is
anxious to see. I propose that we show him around instead of doing the
field work we had planned."

"Mr. Leader!" Pat saluted as he spoke. "The beasties and the bur-rds
will not know what they are missing if they have no chance to inspect
green goods to-day."

Chick started violently, remembering his remark to Sparrer, and the
latter maliciously punched him in the ribs and ducked to hide a grin.
"But I know what I shall miss if you do not carry out your plans, and I
have no mind to be handed that kind of a lemon. I have all next week to
look at the beasties and only this afternoon to see how little a city
patrol knows of scouting. Arrah now, 'tis mesilf belaves ye be afraid to
be showing me how much betther the Scouts av Upper Chain be than the
Scouts av the great city av Noo Yor-r-k!"

"That settles it!" cried Upton when the general laugh had subsided.
"We'll show him that the Blue Tortoise Patrol isn't afraid to take a
dare from any one, and we'll show him a few stunts to make his Bull
Moose up there in the woods turn green with envy. You're on your mettle
now, fellows. We'll go over to the wildest and most lonesome part of the
park and divide into two companies. Pat can take one and be the enemy
which has made a successful raid and made its get-away. Hal can go with
him because he knows the country as well as any of us. We'll give them
ten minutes' start and then go in pursuit. There's enough snow in
patches to make snowballs. Any one hit on the arms or legs is wounded. A
hit on the throwing arm puts that man out of the fighting, but he is
still at liberty. A hit on either leg puts a man out of action, but he
may hide if he can within a radius of a hundred feet of the place where
he was hit. A hit on the head or any part of the body puts a man wholly
out of action and he becomes a first aid man to take care of the
wounded. You fellows have played the game before,