The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players

ioned the scout master, knowing

and gave way to merriment that was none the less overpowering because it ha

tallings joined them. He had a huge grin on his rather odd-looking,

hing up in good styl

think of one of Aesop's fables I used to read ever so lon

d Arthur, a little wickedly, for he had, in t

out, when the lion standing by the exit could kill the game. When he had hee-hawed and kicked up such a rumpus that the poor goats dashed out, to meet their fate at the exit, the donkey finally came

at, was intended for a compliment or no

h the biggest scare of their lives. The way is clear for us now, and, thank goodness, we won't have to

going to forget it, or twit you about the funny noises you manage to coax out of that bone goose-call y

the enemy and won the f

move would be to occu

where he managed to

he other, proudly, as became the principal

to take a few pictures inside and out of th

a more convenient season whenever he could find half of an exc

nce that hastened his actions. "How do we know what sort of a day to-morrow may turn out to be? Suppose a storm came

that the argument was going against him. "Besides, it needs plenty of light to get vie

been smart enough to fetch along an entire outfit for taking flashl

s intended for commendation, though it made the recipient jump, for he had not been expecting anything of the sort, and p

f amazement and even delight, for really, it was an impressive sight to the eyes of American lads not accustomed to crumbl

astle than right here, with that sun blazing along the walls, the turrets and that magnificent don

home. He fully expected to do wonderful things with this expensive outfit,

f several views he dec

rough, and that they need not pose any longer, "I mean to pick up a couple of views from the other side

ght be called a slit in the solid wall, after the fashion of those to be seen in the dwellings of Moors and Arabs and Turks. It was easy enough for each boy in turn to squeeze himself throu

ing hand, so that finally Billy gained his end, though he could long afterwards be se

. Apparently money had not been spared in the erection of an imitation castle, though Hugh found, in some places wher

ing Billy after they had wearied of wandering about the strange place, and

ld shack?" Alec was heard to say as though some

that fills that bill better than this one. Why, not even the peep of a bird can be heard; it's

add: "Oh! it isn't that I really expect anything like a ghost to walk when it comes midnight, you understand, but I don't always sleep as sound as

ggested Hugh. "We can make a blaze in that fireplace and cook supper here as nice

if there does seem to be a queer feeling running up and down my backbone. I never knew the like before save that time I was dared to walk through the graveyard at midnight, and some fellows tried to scare me with their old

asten both doors to this lower room, if we feel like it. Yo

et an idea in your head, Billy, we're going to be bothered by anything except rats. That's the only kind of spooks you'll find in such a place as this. And af

while the scouts had a roof overhead, and stout stone walls surrounding them

chose certain apartments in which he fancied his wealthy and eccentric aunt would be most interested. He also dec

of any kind above. Whoever now owned the place had removed all such articles long since, poss

mped many a time among the rocks, where they were even

n style. "If it proves to be too hard for us, perhaps we can put in the second night outdoors somewhe

ppen to them. He was shrewd enough to arrange his blanket bed directly in the middle, so that he had a pair of chums on either side of him. If the others noticed this sign of weakness they kindly ov

watching them play upon the wall. So he allowed himself to figure what strange scenes these same rooms must have witnessed

he heard a peculiar sound that caused his heart to beat much mo