The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers

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raffe; what is i

nder Hobbs; because, you know, I've just come in after a scout

rom that town where we had a bite of lunch? Why, I understand he's the son of the telegraph operat

en we've got to the last leg of the journey, with the boat only a few miles furt

t be some sort of a recall to duty for him," remarked a third lad, also weari

inly proved why it had been given to him by his mates. "But don't it beat the Dutch how many times Doe Hobbs has had to give up a jo

the Silver Fox Patrol in particular, ain't lucky to have such a wide-awake, efficient assistant scout-mast

y, with several of the other boys tagging at his heels, and sure as you live they're grinning too. Looks to me like Stephen and Allan

ster. The old doctor with whom he practiced had been unlucky enough to fall, and break a leg; so it was absolu

re trying to look terribly disappointed, it might be well to introduce the little party to such of our

the Silver Fox, and the six scouts who were with Doctor Hobbs, away up here on the border of Lake Superior, bent on a cruise on the great

ng things connected with outdoor life. He had belonged to a troop before organizing the one at Cranford, and was well qu

absent, was a boy who had spent quite a time in the Adirondacks be

t opportunity, only to make his chums laugh; for he would immediately afterwards grin-in school as a little fellow he had insisted that his nam

e, though few people ever thought to call him by it; yet in the register at school he was marked down as Cornelius Jasper Ha

oing what he called "stunts," daring any of his comrades to hang by their toes from the limb of a tree twenty feet from the ground; walking a tight-rope which he stretched ac

im up so suddenly always seemed to come just when there was some hard work to be done; and once the suspicion that Davy was shamming broke in upon the rest, they shamed him into declaring himself radically cured. It w

use his pressing duties called him away so often; "but I've got to go home on the first train. Doctor Green has a broken leg, and there's nobody to make the

im, because they knew it would break their hearts to be

ements have been made, the boat is waiting only a few miles away, and you have an efficient assistant scout-master in t

miss you, Doctor, because you know boys from the ground up, and we all feel like you're an

rain, and there's no other until morning; so good-bye, boys. Take good care of yourselves, and write to me as ofte

ice as he bade them a last good-bye that told better than words how sorry he was to leave the

of Doctor Hobbs was a hand waving his campaign hat to

o Thad to see what his p

t three miles to hit it up before we reach the lake shore. Then we'll make camp and spend another night, which I hope will be our last ashore for some litt

iking" because his build made him less active than

en. "I can see that poor old Giraffe here is

o eat had never as yet within the memory of any comrade been fully tested; for they always declared that his legs must be hollow, for ot

ere going light, because they did not intend to do much camping on this trip, as

octor Hobbs had wished them to go to the landing where their boat was to meet them, by following this roundabout course, having had some reason of his own for visiting the country. His folks in Cranford owne

ngs, the boys of the Silver Fox Patrol tramped along the ro

largest fresh water sea in the whole world. Shortly afterwards they reached the shore and were looking almost in awe out up

ed out Giraffe, as he waved his arm around at the trees that grew close to the

home town, down in Tennessee, up in Maine, and away out to the Rockies on one mem

ade to build a sort of lean-to shelter that would even shed rain in a pinch

ty afforded him it was utterly out of the question to hold him in. And so he swung daringly from one limb to another, just for all the world like a squirrel, chatterin

f more than a foot; but this one was really what Bumpus called a "whopper;" and Davy sported among the higher branches with all t

e with apprehension, as he vainly looked around for some sort of weapon with which to defend himself; be

he tree, "a panther, felle