The Balmy Afternoon Passed Rapidly
THE BOY PATROL SERIES
The Boy Patrol On Guard
BY
EDWARD S. ELLIS
Author of “The Flying Boys Series,”
“The Launch Boys Series,”
“The Deerfoot Series,” etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
EDWIN J. PRITTIE
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1913, by
The John C. Winston Company
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
Dedication
Without asking permission, and as a partialrecognition of the example set by themin their daily lives, walk and conversation,I have taken the liberty of dedicating thesevolumes to
George Albert (“Bert”) HallScout Master of Blazing Arrow Patrol,Troop 2 and his Boy Scouts, Charles A.Chase, Patrol Leader; George Robe, Corporal;Kenneth Henke, Kenneth Mitchell,Robert Snow, Ernest Oberlander, ColgateCraig, Robert Rice, Hubert Wood and Harold Hopkins.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—A Prospective Tenderfoot
One bright sunshiny day in thesummer of 1912, a boy some seventeenyears old awoke to the factthat he had lost his way in the depth ofthe woods of southern Maine.
He was a sturdy Irish youth, with redhair, freckled face, a fine set of te