Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . , trying to keep out of the limelight, asit becomes painful when one is praised overmuch. Bed Joe and his friends and Tony accepted an invitation tosupper, as they were not afraid to go home after dark. Aroundthe campfire that evening Mr. Manning told of the wirelessinvention and reported that he had ordered an outfit. Red wasso delighted that he jumped into the air and rolled on theground. I always wanted to see one of them, he cried, andnow youre going to get one. May I see it? You will have to work it, said Mr. Manning. I am
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . , trying to keep out of the limelight, asit becomes painful when one is praised overmuch. Bed Joe and his friends and Tony accepted an invitation tosupper, as they were not afraid to go home after dark. Aroundthe campfire that evening Mr. Manning told of the wirelessinvention and reported that he had ordered an outfit. Red wasso delighted that he jumped into the air and rolled on theground. I always wanted to see one of them, he cried, andnow youre going to get one. May I see it? You will have to work it, said Mr. Manning. I am nota telegrapher and we shall have to depend upon you and yourfriends. The scouts wrere not so intensely interested, for most ofthem did not fully understand what a wireless station wouldmean. We can get messages from everywhere and maybe sendthem, said Joe. It will be great. We can train the boys allover this country and we can talk to them whenever we wantto. Joe did not know, of course, the great part he was to playin a world drama with his wireless THE RIVER BATTLESHIP SCOUTS ON THE WATER SWIMMING DRILL TONYS LEATHER THONG THE BULLS WATERLOO. CAMP life, when campers know how to camp and are or-ganized, grows better every day. When affairs are con-ducted in a haphazard way, a camp soon becomes was there a better camp than that of the Boy day some improvement was made and all was as cleanas a hounds tooth. Every man had his work and every daylearned some improved method. All hands longed for boats, but there wrere no boats and theboys had no money for even the smallest craft. At a council one night Big Mac and some of his friends,now regularly organized as scouts, were present. Red Joe, nowleader of the signal corps of the scout troop, also was present. Both Mac and Red, former enemies of the scouts, now wereloyal to the ideas of organization, chivalry, and Manning liked both the lads and confidently expectedthem to be
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