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Title: The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge
Marooned Among the Moonshiners

Author: Herbert Carter

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THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE BLUE RIDGE

Or

Marooned Among the Moonshiners

by

HERBERT CARTER

Author of "The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire," "The Boy
Scouts On the Trail," "The Boy Scouts In the Maine
Woods," "The Boy Scouts Through the
Big Timber," "The Boy Scouts
In the Rockies"

[Illustration: "Good shot, Bob!" cried Thad. "Get another stone, quick,
for he's coming after you." Page 146.

--_The Boy Scouts In the Blue Ridge._]

[Illustration]

A. L. Burt Company
New York

Copyright, 1913
By A. L. Burt Company

THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE BLUE RIDGE.

THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE BLUE RIDGE

CHAPTER I.

THE HIKE THROUGH THE SMOKY RANGE.

"DID anybody happen to see my knapsack around?"

"Why, you had it just a few minutes ago, Step Hen!"

"I know that, Bumpus; and I'd take my affidavy I laid it down on this
rock."

"Well, don't whine so about a little thing like that, Step Hen; it ain't
there now, and that's a fact."

"Somebody's gone and sneaked it on me, that's what. I'm the unluckiest
feller in the whole bunch, for havin' queer things happen to him. Just
can't