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Title: The Boy Scout Fire Fighters
or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed

Author: Robert Maitland

Release Date: November 24, 2008 [EBook #26875]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

Boy Scout Series Volume 4

The Boy Scout Fire Fighters

OR

Jack Danby's Bravest Deed

BY

Major Robert Maitland

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO ---- AKRON, OHIO ---- NEW YORK

Copyright, 1912

By

The Saalfield Publishing Co.

CONTENTS

Chapter

I AT THE EDGE OF THE FIRE
II FIGHTING THE FIRE
III WHAT THE SPY SAW
IV THE DOUBLE HEADER
V TOM BINNS' BAD LUCK
VI THE ATTACK ON THE STATION
VII JACK DANBY'S PERIL
VIII THE RESCUE
IX A SWIMMING PARTY
X THE BURNING LAUNCH
XI THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
XII AN UNGRATEFUL PARENT
XIII THE MOVING PICTURES
XIV A FOOLISH STRIKE
XV THE DYNAMITERS
XVI OFF ON A LONG HIKE
XVII A TIMELY WARNING

[Transcriber's notes:

Two chapters in the source book were misnumbered. Chapters in this
ebook have been renumbered.

The last numbered page in the source book was page 168, but damage to
the book indicates that a number of pages were missing after that
point. Since the original book did not have a table of contents, it is
unknown what may be missing.]

The Boy Scout Fire Fighters

CHAPTER I

AT THE EDGE OF THE FIRE

A pall of smoke, dark, ugly, threatening, hung over a wood in which the
Thirty-ninth Troop of the Boy Scouts had been spending a Saturday
afternoon in camp. They had been hard at work at signal practice,
semaphoring, and acquiring speed in Morse signaling with flags, which
makes wireless unnecessary when there are enough signalers, covering
enough ground.

The Scout camp was near the edge of the woods. Beyond its site
stretched level fields, sloping gradually upward from them toward a
wooded mountain. The smoke came from the mountain, and in the growing
blackness ov