The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico

ilderment that had overwhelmed them all. Alongside was the white horse attached to the empty wagon; and from the docile manner in which the animal had

t the Dutch!" Merritt burst out, he being

ft their rig with us, don't you see? Well, I must say they are aw

y amused at the hasty flight of the

oes meaning to hold 'em up; and that's

p at the conclusion that a lot of lunatics had broken loose from that asylum down at Amityville. You should have let me say my little say without that heathen noise. It's all

desperate yeggmen wanting to hold 'em up

is getting dusk right now, it's still light enough for anybody with eyes to see th

koot like that, I want

r scout uniforms," sugge

shock the sight of the same gave the parties, I'm thinking they must have gues

would explain the queer st

pot where the pair of alarmed men had left the road and plunged into the thicket. "And maybe some of the rest of y

ting to see if any of the rest of you had

heart if I didn't

scout struck in, not wanting to have it appear that he was the only fellow to be so dazed b

sight, there happens to be growing a white birch tree that hangs out at an angle of twenty-five degrees. Birches are not so plen

heir rig, you mean,

me other reason," repl

w," remarked Andy. "Probably they are

ed out of that just because a pair of sillies chose to get cold feet at sight

re, doing no good at all, while we trudge along over two miles of ground, carrying this heavy

" exclaimed

three affirmatives; how do you vote, Rob? S

at the appeal, and glanced aroun

us," he went on to say, much to the delight of his companions; for Tubby immediately threw u

board. "So far as I can see, I don't believe we'll have any trouble about taking the rig, even if the men turn out to be honest, which I'm right sure they won't

a pair of desperate bank burglars, making off with the stuff they'd hooked from a town not far away. That was how he got his first thousand dollars, he says, that started him along the road to success, years and years ago. And Merritt, did you take a good l

ed that around to make sure it didn't hide anything. But we didn't calculate to discover any jewelry or bank funds; the best we asked for was a chance to ride to Hampton; and

he wagon. Tubby, being the slowest to

intively, after the fashion of the unfort

there in the wagon,

ers for a seat if you

make room for one more?

e Side Show," was Merritt's reply. And so Tubby was compelled to climb i

swing the wagon around every-which-way, and there's no telling what would happen to me. I guess I'v

mean as much as the whole three of

it gave a jump forward that caused Tubby to roll over on his back the first thing, and then clutch wildly at th

mile, and with that heavy sack into the bargain," Rob declared, as

end of the seat from the driver, "it seems to me the Eagles are alway

e had that boat spring a leak; and if the accident had occurred when we were out in the middle of the

y something always turns up to help us out. Look back at lots of things that have come our way, and you

hough he might be having the time of his life holding on to the sides of the

plain. We're on what they call 'Easy Street' right now. And who knows but there may be a few dollars' reward offered for the recovery of a stolen outfit? It wouldn't surprise me very much; bec

f unconsciously, Merritt at the same time started to pull at the reins, so that the hors

his knees in order to look beyond his mates on the seat, when, without

r hands, every one of you, d'ye

s forward progress blocked, gladly came to a full stop. The occupants of

advance to the wagon, as if to make sure that none of those who occupie