y a hand's breadth! Uncle Jack sank
back on the cushions, his eyes flashing.

"Reckless young rascal! Trying to make murderers of us, is he? What are
you Safety Scouts going to do about the boys' hitching on like that,
Bob?"

Bob pulled a notebook out of his pocket. "Here's how Sure Pop has
summed up our patrol reports on street accidents. He calls it--

SIX TIMELY TIPS ON STREET SAFETY

Tip 1: Make the street car stop before you step on
or off--the car can wait. But step lively!

Tip 2: Face forward in getting off. Hold the grip
iron with your left hand--it's a friend in need.
Left foot to the step, right foot to the ground,
eyes front!

Tip 3: Before leaving the car, look both ways for
automobiles, wagons, and motor cycles.

Tip 4: In passing behind a car, first peek around
to see what's coming. When carrying an umbrella,
peek around that, too.

Tip 5: Before you hitch on or steal rides on
street cars, automobiles, or wagons, better make
your will.

Tip 6: Keep wide awake in getting on and off cars
and in crossing streets. Walk fast, _but don't
run_. Use all the sense you have; you're likely to
need it and to need it quick!

"Those six tips are not guess work either, Uncle Jack. They're boiled
down from weeks of street scouting by every boy and girl in our
patrol."

"Those are good, sensible tips," said his uncle. "What use are you going
to make of them?"

"Well, by the time vacation's over, we will have a special School Safety
Patrol drilled and ready to get down to business on this particular work
among the youngsters--to get them out of the habit of hitching on, and
that sort of thing. Our idea is to begin with the smaller school
children; there have been a good many bad accidents to them, you see,
going to and from school. Most of them have to cross the tracks; it's
altogether too easy for them to get confused and run down by a street
car or engine or auto."

"That's right, Bob. How are you going to stop it?"

"Why, each Scout in the School Patrol takes charge of the school
children in his block for one month. It's his job to get them together
at a convenient corner in the morning, then herd them across the tracks
and through the crowded streets to school; to do the same thing on their
way home; and to keep an eye on t