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

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all this stuff!" called

't like to give much for his chance of g

made by the company that the old house couldn't fall, it trapped one o

ck. "I want to call out and s

If we can locate him in that way it may save us a

lacing his mouth close to the wreckag

arrity, can y

the faint response

hurt, sir?" con

rom falling on me. I am pinned down here, and can hardly move. Hur

, Mr. Garrity, understanding that relief was at hand

oys," he told the others, "an

there are plenty of willing hands here for the work,

ssing along the turnpike near by in wagons or sleighs at the time the accident hap

f he had been in the house-wrecking business for yea

he pile, "because that one timber he mentioned is the key log of the jam. As long as it holds he's safe from being crushed. Here, don

h haste. Better that the man who was imprisoned under all this wreckage should remain there a longer period than that he lose his li

of the ice-house proceeded in a satisfactory manner. Once in a while Jack would call a tempo

report he gave after this had happened for the third time; "a

he said was acting as a buffer above him. Hey! we've got to be extra careful now, because one end of tha

eckage, "be very careful, ple

ued. He watched every move that was made, and often war

get something under that loose end of the bi

very prop to slip down through that opening. I think I

ld the latter break away from its frail support at that end. When Bobolink saw him get up from his knees a minute later he d

Not so much danger now, because I've put a crimp in that timb

rush of the building, was surely a sight worth seeing. At least some of the town people who came up just then felt they

eighty fragments remained to be lifted off before Jack would be able t

prison. The old gentleman looked considerably the worse for his remarkable experience. There

he stared around at the pile of torn timbers, an

, who feared that it had been broken, because a bea

region of the eastern country like wildfire, looked at the eager, boyish faces of his rescuers. It could be seen

tle price to pay for my temerity in entering that shaky old bui

"that it is only a bad sprain. At the worst you will

t to say that I believe I owe my very life to you boys. I can never forget it. Others, of course, might have done all they could to dig me out, but on

ight was disabled for the time being. Jack deftly made a sling out of a red bandana handkerchief,

when the ice-house collapsed?"

ide," explained Bobolink. "Little Lucy Stackpole has a broken leg. We s

had fallen on my shoulders alone. Of course, the company will be liable for damages, as well as the doctor's

soon as possible," remarked Jack. "You have some bruises, too, that are apt to be painful

2 the one addressed. "But depend on it I mean to m

ght it best to explain. Somehow deep down in his heart he was already wondering whether this remarkabl

r monthly meeting in the big room under the church. We'd be pleased to have you drop in and see us, sir. Lots of the leading

shall avail myself of it, and I might possibly have something of interest to comm