The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound / A Tour on Skates and Iceboats
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d Frank Savage as he strove to keep alon
as they dashed around it they came
fellows!" shouted Fra
a little cluster of men and boys were gathered, some of the
nearest him; "two of the Lawson crowd here, dodgin
dy Griggs. "He's dancing around like a ch
Bobolink. "Hold on! what's that he's saying now a
his hands wildly. "Somebody must have known that my insurance ran out three weeks ago, and for once I n
to get busy and do something!" ex
nk, "but I s'pose we're bound to forget everything but that so
and let's sling things a
d, as they were likely to do at any moment now. Indeed, loud cries not far away, accompanied by the rush of many heavily booted
though they could only hazard a guess as to how it came so-possibly when brought to
l filled with an acrid smoke that made their eyes run; but through i
at in all probability the rolls of cloth and silks on the shelves would suffer wor
others, and placed in temporary security. A couple of the local police force had by this time reached
that moment, when the boys of Stanhope were making such 72 heroic efforts to save his property, he seemed to entertain suspici
was quickly taken to the nearest cistern and the suction pipe lowered. When that reservoir was emptied others in t
hioned weapons. A new waterworks system was being installed, and in the course of a couple of weeks Stanhope hoped to be supplied w
he right sort of man for the work. He was one of the town bl
t, the engine began to work furiously, sending out black smoke from 73 its
ention, he found occasion to speak words of encouragement to the busy scouts as they tro
th their arms filled with bolts of Mr. Briggs' most cherished silks, "you've got the making of pri
ping upward, and the entire back part of the store seemed to be doomed. Being a
aside unable to enter the store again since the firemen had taken possession of the pr
derkin, as a man with a fire 74 axe made a fresh opening in one
s that had drawn the fire-engine to the spot, the whooping of gangs of delighted boys, and a lot of ot
on it already, seems li
on," remarked Frank. "There he is running back and forth betwe
police will steal some of t
of the Briggs' store may be saved. But Mr. Briggs is bound to lose a hea
ng his insurance policy to lapse, and to lie
or so many years and never h
ost of the building was saved, though the business was bound to be crippled for some time,
ed Bobolink. "He seems to think a whole hour elapsed after the alarm befor
convince Mr. Briggs he is mistaken. He knows how excited Mr. Briggs is, and
for not getting more stuff out before the
Jack warned them, "because we know h
coming face to face with the group of scouts, suddenly pointed a
arted in revenge, and th