Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . in less time. Were scouts, shouted Dick, and must do this job so wellthat this farmer will know what it means to be a scout. Many a back ached, but the lads stuck to the job, and inthree hours finished it. Instead of returning to the camp for dinner, the scouts de-cided to go without the meal. They rolled the logs into thewater and the timbers floated downstream. Of course they didnot go very far before they were caught in bayous or otherwiseprevented from going on to the camp. Mr. Manning came up at this point and saw the dilem
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . in less time. Were scouts, shouted Dick, and must do this job so wellthat this farmer will know what it means to be a scout. Many a back ached, but the lads stuck to the job, and inthree hours finished it. Instead of returning to the camp for dinner, the scouts de-cided to go without the meal. They rolled the logs into thewater and the timbers floated downstream. Of course they didnot go very far before they were caught in bayous or otherwiseprevented from going on to the camp. Mr. Manning came up at this point and saw the a few of the boys could swim well and he was unwillingto let them go into the stream to tow the timbers. So well had the farm work been done that the farmer wasglad enough to give the boys some wire, used commonly for bal-ing hay. Mr. Manning went into the water, with Dick, Mac,Red Joe and Bill, all of whom were fair swimmers. They gotthe logs together and lashed them with the wire, making a plat-form fourteen feet long, which floated high in the <D w HPOQ * £ & O £H S W S ^ H 5 gH -rH br. THE RIVER BATTLESHIP 89 The swimmers towed the temporary raft to the shore andmore than a dozen of the boys were taken aboard. The raftcarried the load well. At the riffles all hands were called into the water to get thenew ship over the shallow places. As the raft and its load ofscouts floated down the stream, it looked good to the scouts onshore and they were proud of the vessel, even as it was. There was great cheering when the craft was brought intosight of the camp and was made fast to the roots of a tree atthe waters edge just above the rendezvous. That night at a council around the fire, the boys voted onseveral propositions. It was decided that only boys who couldswim ten yards would be permitted to join the crew. Many names were suggested for the craft, but christeningwas postponed until the timbers were fashioned into a bettervessel. Dimensions of the timbers ha
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