Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . held on. Harry wentdown under the strain and was submerged. But the otherboys did their work well and in a moment had Tom in shallowwater. The leader of the Bear patrol took the limp form ofthe rescued lad in his arms and, aided by other scouts, floatedhim to shore. Mr. Manning had meantime given the call for the Eagleand Redbird patrols and the sixteen boys were now on thebank. They brought their staves, for that is a rule amongscouts. Even before Tom and the Bear men had the half-drowned boy on the bank, a stretcher had been m
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . held on. Harry wentdown under the strain and was submerged. But the otherboys did their work well and in a moment had Tom in shallowwater. The leader of the Bear patrol took the limp form ofthe rescued lad in his arms and, aided by other scouts, floatedhim to shore. Mr. Manning had meantime given the call for the Eagleand Redbird patrols and the sixteen boys were now on thebank. They brought their staves, for that is a rule amongscouts. Even before Tom and the Bear men had the half-drowned boy on the bank, a stretcher had been made, the boysusing two staves and their coats. On the run he was carried up to a smooth place on thebank and Mr. Manning gave him first aid for the was pumped out of the poor fellow and he came aroundin a half-hour or so. The wet Bear scouts had built up a bigfire at the camp and had their thatched shelter all warm andcomfortable for their visitor. Their own clothing was dryingat the fire. Everyone had forgotten the farmer boys on the other side,. p 1= r- Ch © O © o cr .5o SCOUT PATROL IN ACTION 43 but they had made their way up the river and crossed on abridge, and the scouts saw them coming through the their companion sat by the warm fire and regained hisstrength, the visitors introduced themselves. The short boywho had been pulled from the water was named Jim largest boy was Fred Baldwin. There were four of them. We know more about horses than we do about boats,said Fred. We are mighty thankful to you fellows for get-ting Jim out of the river. We did not know what to do andwere about knocked out when we fell into that cold river. The scouts could see that Fred and his crowd were curiousabout the camp and the scouts. Mr. Manning explained it tothem and they said they would like to get into the organization. Can you ride horseback? asked the scoutmaster. That is about all we can do, said the boys. Our fathershave stock farms three miles
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