The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound / A Tour on Skates and Iceboats

his name in th

he manages to pull off. It makes me green wi

s your strong suit is long-distance skating? The fact is both the Carberry twins

p and think. Here it is-only four days now to Christmas, and the scout

ng to g-g-get a full three-weeks' vacation 2 in the b-b-barg

on falling all over yourself like that yo

o the odd name of Bobolink, "it's high time we

ters for to-night, you understand, boys," said the fancy skater, who had jus

ink, "because it will take a couple of days to get e

times ahead for the cook at your house, Bobolink, provi

seat when the grub is being passed around. As for me I'm proud of my stowage a

huckled Wallace 3 Carberry, "bec

who could speak as clearly as any one when not excited, "where d

nake Mountain wouldn't be such a bad

Tokala again, and see what Cedar Island looks like in the grip

l good time there last summer

I know one scout who couldn't be coaxed

fully, "who brazenly admits he believes in ghosts, an

membership of over thirty on the muster roll of Stanhope Troop, it isn't to b

ork for some of the b

eir folks object to a winter camp," Wallace announced. "So

eal snow and ice hike thi

tes at that!" cried Wa

Betts, who late that fall had built a new flier, and never seeme

o knows?" remarked

um of Paul Morrison, assistant scout-master of Stanhope Troop of Bo

thing about th

e ought to give us a

ity on us, wo

eading only shook his head an

old your horses a little while longer and you'll hear everything. We're going to talk it over to-nigh

kates, and fairly dazzled his mates with the w

ed a few words of explana

f success at the time we make the acquaintance of the boys in this volume there were episodes in the past

s had tried to make the undertaking a failure, while doubting parents had in many cases to be

will be greatly pleased to follow their fortunes again. For the 6 benefit of those who are making their acquaintance for the first time it may be stated that bes

twin, William by name, and a boy whom they called "Nuthin

oard a couple of motor boats loaned to them by influential citizens of their home town. The strange adventures that had befallen the scouts on this cruise through windi

e else; and upon learning that the Christmas holidays would be length

elt bound in honor to keep any secret he had been entrusted with by the assistant scout-master-for Paul often had to

ng sound that thrilled every one of them through and through. It was as if the frozen river were breaking up in a spring thaw. Some of the boys even suspected that ther

caved in, just as they feared it would. See the ice cakes sliding everywhere! And I saw men and girls near there j

s, as he set off at full speed. "This means work