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Title: Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds

Author: Archibald Lee Fletcher

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Language: English

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BOY SCOUTS IN NORTHERN WILDS

Or, The Signal from the Hills

By

MAJOR ARCHIBALD LEE FLETCHER

Author of

"Boy Scout Rivals; or, A Leader of the Tenderfoot Patrol,"
"Boy Scouts on Old Superior; or, The Tale of The Pictured
Rocks," "Boy Scouts' Signal Sender; or When Wigwag Knowledge
Paid," "Boy Scout Pathfinders; or, The Strange Hunt for the
Beaver Patrol" etc., etc.

Chicago, 1913

CONTENTS

Chapter

I--A CAMP ON MOOSE RIVER
II--THE LITTLE BRASS GOD
III--THE CABIN IN THE SWAMP
IV--LOST IN THE STORM
V--A BOY SCOUT TRICK
VI--THE CAVE OF THE TWO BEARS
VII--AM EMPTY CAVERN
VIII--A TRAPPER'S TREACHERY
IX--TWO HUNGRY BEARS
X--BOYS IN A TIGHT PLACE
XI--THE HALF-BREED
XII--A SURPRISE AT THE CABIN
XIII--A FACE AT THE WINDOW
XIV--A CALL PROM THE DARKNESS
XV--A HUNTING EXPEDITION
XVI--ANTOINE ON THE RUN
XVII--"BOYS UP A TREE!"
XVIII--A PILLAR OF FIRE
XIX--THE SIGNAL FROM THE HILLS
XX--A SIGHT OF THE GOD
XXI--TWO RIFLE SHOTS
XXII--THE TWIN BRASS GODS

CHAPTER I

A CAMP ON MOOSE RIVER

Four Boy Scouts, of the Beaver Patrol, Chicago, were in camp on
Moose river. They were all athletic young fellows, not far from
seventeen years of age, and were dressed in the khaki uniform
adopted by the Boy Scouts of America.

If you take a map of the British Northwest Territories and look up
Moose river, you will discover that it runs through nearly three
hundred miles of wilderness, from Lake Missinale to Moose Bay. The
reader will well understand, then, how far "Sandy" Green, Will
Smith, George Benton and Tommy Gregory had traveled from
civilization.

The camp of the Boy Scouts was situated some fifty miles up the
river from Moose Factory, a trading point famous in old Indian days
for its a