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Title: The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields

Author: Lieut. Howard Payson

Illustrator: Charles L. Wrenn

Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29991]

Language: English

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THE BOY SCOUTS
ON
BELGIAN BATTLEFIELDS

BY
LIEUT. HOWARD PAYSON

AUTHOR OF "THE MOTOR CYCLE SERIES," "THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE
EAGLE PATROL," "THE BOY SCOUTS ON THE RANGE," "THE BOY
SCOUTS AND THE ARMY AIRSHIP," "THE BOY SCOUTS' MOUNTAIN
CAMP," "THE BOY SCOUTS FOR UNCLE SAM,"
"THE BOY SCOUTS AT THE PANAMA CANAL,"
"THE BOY SCOUTS UNDER FIRE IN
MEXICO," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARLES L. WRENN_

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1915,
BY
HURST & COMPANY

[Illustration: The long roll of rifle firing in volleys, and the faint
cheers of charging men.--_Page 178._]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ANTWERP, ON THE SCHELDT 5

II. THE AERIAL MAP-MAKER 19

III. LEAVING FOR THE FRONT 31

IV. THE DAY OF THE BOY SCOUT 45

V. UNDER THE BRIDGE 58

VI. GETTING NEAR THE WAR ZONE 68

VII. THE DESERTION OF ANTHONY 80

VIII. WHEN THE UHLANS CAME 92

IX. WITH FIRE AND SMOKE 102

X. THE DUTY OF A SCOUT 112

XI. MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS IN THE NIGHT 121

XII. THE MEETING BETWEEN THE LINES 131

XIII. CAUGHT IN THE ACT 140

XIV. THE FIELD HOSPITAL 149

XV. CHASING A JACK-O'-LANTERN 161

XVI. THE BATTLE FOR THE TRENCHES 180

XVII.