Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . TONY AND HIS BAND Drum Ccrps Organized by the Little Italian Musician, Backed by the Boy Scout Troop will turn up. Mr. Manning and the trccp should be comingup soon. I know theyll keep hiking until they find theTenderfoot. Mac was right about that. Some of the boys had becomeexhausted in the long march through the wet woods and hadbuilt a fire and made a sort of camp, but the scoutmaster withthe main body of scouts kept on down river, shouting fre- CRUISE OF THE RAFT 103 quently. Dick had sprained his ankle and dropped
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . TONY AND HIS BAND Drum Ccrps Organized by the Little Italian Musician, Backed by the Boy Scout Troop will turn up. Mr. Manning and the trccp should be comingup soon. I know theyll keep hiking until they find theTenderfoot. Mac was right about that. Some of the boys had becomeexhausted in the long march through the wet woods and hadbuilt a fire and made a sort of camp, but the scoutmaster withthe main body of scouts kept on down river, shouting fre- CRUISE OF THE RAFT 103 quently. Dick had sprained his ankle and dropped heard the trumpet calls at first, but finally lost them. Because of the overflow the rescuers had to make manylong detours, and many times had to retrace their steps. Theymust have covered ten miles before they heard again the wel-come notes of Tonys trumpet. It was now two hours after sun-up and Mr. Manning andthe boys were about to stop for a rest, when they were cheered. THE EVENING BAND CONCEETBoy Scout Musicians Entertaining Their Comrades in Camp atthe Close of the Day on by the glad musical tidings that the Tenderfoot and its crewwere still in the land of the living. They shouted, but no re-plies were heard. They continued their way and kept as closeto the river as they could, scanning every bit of water for aview of the raft. They wondered why they heard no more ofthe trumpet and doubts of the safety of Mac and his menagain arose in their minds. 104 CRUISE OF THE RAFT At last they came upon the bayou where the raft wasstranded in the mud. Then they knew why they had heard nomore trumpet calls. When the sun warmed them Mac andthe crew became sleepy and the warm, dry floor of the raft in-vited them to rest. Tony dropped off and only Red and Billremained awake when Mr. Manning and the troop weresighted, running along the edge of the dark waters. Mr. Manning shouted to the crew and found that all wrerewell and hungry. I suppose we have just had a ban
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