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Title: Boy Scouts on a Long Hike
Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps

Author: Archibald Lee Fletcher

Release Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18952]

Language: English

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BOY SCOUTS ON A LONG HIKE
or
To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps

By
Archibald Lee Fletcher

Chicago
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

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Copyright 1913
M. A. DONOHUE & CO.
CHICAGO

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CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I--THE BOYS OF THE BEAVER PATROL 7
II--HELPING NOODLES 16
III--THE GENTLE COW 26
IV--IN ALABAMA CAMP 35
V--A HELPING HAND 44
VI--THE HOME-COMING OF JO DAVIES 53
VII--INNOCENT OR GUILTY? 62
VIII--"WELL, OF ALL THINGS!" 71
IX--THE RUNAWAY BALLOON 81
X--DUTY ABOVE ALL THINGS 90
XI--THE TRAIL IN THE SWAMP 99
XII--WHERE NO FOOT HAS EVER TROD 108
XIII--THE OASIS IN THE SWAMP 117
XIV--JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME 126
XV--ON THE HOME-STRETCH 135
XVI--"WELL DONE, BEAVER PATROL!" 146

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BOY SCOUTS ON A LONG HIKE
Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps

CHAPTER I

THE BOYS OF THE BEAVER PATROL

"They all think, fellows, that the Beaver Patrol can't do it!"

"We'll show 'em how we've climbed up out of the tenderfoot class; hey,
boys?"

"Just watch our smoke, that's all. Why, it's only a measly little
twenty-five miles per day, and what d'ye think?"

"Sure Seth, and what's that to a husky lot of Boy Scouts, who've been
through the mill, and wear merit badges all ar