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Title: Boy Scouts in the Philippines
Or, The Key to the Treaty Box

Author: G. Harvey Ralphson

Release Date: December 29, 2006 [EBook #20208]

Language: English

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Boy Scouts in the Philippines

Or

The Key to the Treaty Box

By Scout Master G. Harvey Ralphson

Author of "Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam." "Boy
Scouts In the Canal Zone; or The Plot Against Uncle Sam." "Boy Scouts in
the Northwest; or Fighting Forest Fires."

Copyright 1911.
M. A. Donohue & Company.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Eleotrotyped, Printed and Bound by M. A. Donohue & Co.

[Illustration: Boy Scouts in the Philippines; or The Key to the Treaty
Box.]

CONTENTS

I. Black Bears and Wolves

II. It's Up to the Boy Scouts

III. The Midnight Visitor

IV. The Signals in Grass

V. On the Rim of the China Sea

VI. The Low Call of a Wolf

VII. A Missing Motor Boat

VIII. Wigwags from the Beach

IX. Two Keys to the Treaty Box

X. A Hot Night in Yokohama

XI. A Fairy History of Japan

XII. Pat Takes a Big Chance

XIII. Of the Wild Cat Patrol, Manila

XIV. The Senator's Son Seeks a Key

XV. Signal Lights in the China Sea

XVI. For Piracy on the High Seas

XVII. The Flare of a Rocket

XVIII. The Man Behind the Door

XIX. Boy Scouts Unearth Plot

Boy Scouts in the Philippines

OR

The Key to the Treaty Box

CHAPTER I.

BLACK BEARS AND WOLVES.

"Wake up--wake up--wake up!"

Frank Shaw, passenger on the United States army transport _Union_, San
Francisco to the Philippines, awoke in his cabin to find the freckled
f