Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . is good to know. 124 SCOUTS AS EXPLORERS On the way to the camp, Boris interested his new was born in Russia. His father had been driven out of hisnative city by the cruel Russian officials and the secret his younger days Boris had been a fugitive—now in Rus-sia, now out of it. His father was a revolutionary, fighting forfreedom in his native country. Once he was a college profes-sor. Boris had learned almost all the European languagesfairly well and could read, write and speak fluently eight ofthe
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . is good to know. 124 SCOUTS AS EXPLORERS On the way to the camp, Boris interested his new was born in Russia. His father had been driven out of hisnative city by the cruel Russian officials and the secret his younger days Boris had been a fugitive—now in Rus-sia, now out of it. His father was a revolutionary, fighting forfreedom in his native country. Once he was a college profes-sor. Boris had learned almost all the European languagesfairly well and could read, write and speak fluently eight ofthe best known tongues of the continent. Will and the other Redbirds felt as if they had indeedmade a capture, and were eager to get to camp and to showtheir friendly prisoner to Mr. Manning and the other scouts,Boris and Hickory appeared to like the scouts. They were well pleased with the results of their explora-tion, the discovery of the big camp and the alliance with theyoung Russian revolutionary. h • - ?? • w «t a* COOn SCOUT TIMBER IX Tlll-l SOUTH. AMBASSADOR TO THE CAMP VISITOR FROM AFAR OLD FRIEXDS MEET SCOUTS OF MANY TONGUES INVITATION TO GO ABROAD. WHEX the Redbirds came into camp, Hickory imme-diately became the center of interest. Where did you get him? Whats his name? Whatare you going to do with him? Whose is he? and otherquestions were asked from all sides. Before the dogs story could be told, Will introduced Borisand Mr. Manning and they began talking. As supper was prepared the explorers reported the daysadventures. Everyone was interested in the internationalcamp on the railway, and plans were discussed for the entiretroop (including the horse-scouts and the signal corps) to visitthe work. Just as the scouts were sitting down to supper, a youngman made his appearance. Mr. Manning met him and thestranger introduced himself. 126 AMBASSADOR TO THE CAMP I am Briggs, of the New York Chronicle, he said. 1was sent to find your camp and to write about the boys who
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