Captain Sam: The Boy Scouts of 1814

ock, when Sam chose a camp for the night, saying that they had already made a better march than he

enough to meet around the end of an arrow. Binding these strips firmly, the arrows were complete. Each was a slender, light stick of cedar, shod at one end with a slender iron point, and bound around at the other, for a distance of several inches, wit

w, and in a moment the arrow was seen sticking in the tr

o, greatly to their delight, as long as the daylight lasted. Then the manufacture

t his map and began pric

d Bob Sharp, "how

o what? Pri

ou know where we are

I want to know,"

med in Billy Bunke

on,-you see, don't you, where the Coosa and the Tallapoosa rivers come together and we are goin

Sid Russell, speaking faster than any of

rse is a little west of south, nearly but not quite southwest. The distance, in an air line is about a hundred and twenty-five mil

ed and sixty miles the

d then due west, taking the base and perpendicular of

them words I wonde

ean," said Sam, taking a stick and d

Suppose we start at the top to go to the left hand lower corner; don't you see that it would be further to go straight down to the ri

"it's just like going cat

and then due west to Pensacola itself, with a third line running 'cat a cornered' as you say, from camp Jackson straight to Pensacola, the line due south would be a

last,-the cat a cornered

ou," said Sam, "because yo

on't understand it," said Sid Rus

to his heels, without having to make the trip when he's tired

w that the square described on the hypothenuse of a right angled triang

ath out of a fellow to hear yo

follow it, I would only have to guess how many miles we march each day, and mark it down on the map. But we can't go straight, because of swamps and creeks and canebrakes, so I must keep

d Tom, suddenly thi

hat is i

ong as to the distanc

I do; I can't m

-point for the next day, and two or th

. You see, I have changed the place of

u make cor

be further off, I shall know that I have got to-night's camp placed wrong on the map. I shall then correct my estimate. When we come to the next creek I

r that there head o' your'

ll of you why we are going to Pensacola," and with that Sam entered into the plans which we know all about already, and which need not be repeated here. When he

lows they ketch in t

e spies, especially as we shall be in the territory of a friendly n

it anyhow, just as they ar

st place we mustn't let them suspect us, and in the second, w

all failed, what

y Bowlegs. "You're afeard, tha

ve to run, like any other risk in war. I told you all

re you didn't want Jake Elliott t

Jake, if you're scar

he's only bashful,"

you," said Jake, "but you're all fools

Sam, looking up quickly from the

l end in gettin' us into trouble that we wont git out of soon

his feet in

WHAT YOU'RE

tell you once for all that I will tolerate no further mutinous words from you. If I hear another word of the kind from you, or see a s

disposed to "put on airs" as boys say, and hence he had been as easy and familiar with his companions as if they had been merely a lot of school b

ministered. They believed Jake Elliott to be a coward and a bully, and they we

y threw themselves down on their beds of