Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . the blankets and the rendezvous took on its oldfamiliar appearance. The loss of the Tenderfoot was the onlymisfortune that could not be repaired easily. Dick had the goat which had awakened the boys the nightbefore, and he told how the goat had kept two dogs away fromthe camp stores. This made the goat popular with the scoutsand they adopted him as a mascot and named him King. That day Gene, the crippled photographer, was broughtinto camp by one of the horse-scouts, the little fellow and hiscamera riding behind the horseman. He
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . the blankets and the rendezvous took on its oldfamiliar appearance. The loss of the Tenderfoot was the onlymisfortune that could not be repaired easily. Dick had the goat which had awakened the boys the nightbefore, and he told how the goat had kept two dogs away fromthe camp stores. This made the goat popular with the scoutsand they adopted him as a mascot and named him King. That day Gene, the crippled photographer, was broughtinto camp by one of the horse-scouts, the little fellow and hiscamera riding behind the horseman. He was too late to get apicture of the Tenderfoot, and this the boys all regretted. No matches could be found in camp and for the first timethe boys had to use their primitive fire-making method. Thefiremakers took a pointed stick and whirling it in contact withanother piece of wood as directed, they got a spark which ig-nited tinder from a rotten log. The water was too muddy for swimming and the scoutswould have had a dull time indeed had not the wireless outfit. 02 ,3 h-f 2 K oi—i t-< 108 SCOUTS SAVE A SHIP arrived. Then Red Joe was the busiest boy in the county andeasily took the lead. He knew every piece and just where itbelonged. Naturally a mechanic, he had studied with goodwill, and Mr. Manning saw that Joe and his friends Bob andDug would make good as signal scouts. On a high tree in an open place Joe fixed the anemone, thewire device which collects the electric waves from the atmos-phere. Mr. Manning taught the boys how to climb the talltree by means of a life-belt and a wire. The belt was placedaround the tree and around Donald, who was chosen to makethe first climb. The wire was twisted about the trunk, loosely,and the end made a loop for the climbers foot. By lifting uphis foot Don forced the wire upward. Downward pressurecaused it to catch on the bark and he went up a notch. Gradually sliding upward and safely held by the life-belt,he reached the first high branc
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