| Show comment out wonder "I signal a we if that from could bend in a i’rbm case a shoulder “These old glasses army may come ifi mfflked “Yes a I I first -s Poppy “Just inquired '’’’ downstream gLasses in creek” directed the look up the patrol leader at all hold No “Can’t see the crk on— theTe’'v something shining through ve got the trees returned Rib “Now of it It’s little stretch water and a the trunk a white pine wpth there’s big busted off and One big limb sticking out lt lu-i yreek i t " water” eommentcii Poppy who fine” the river looking backfrom been nothing but the south “Iaoks like woodsnil swamp in this direction-” he “That’s had there is” exclaimed Rib his in glasses that direction all the but trees way baca to hills If anybody those other conies to fly” that way they'll have tp back camp" “All right we’ll go they reached answered Poppy When halted thof level ground again he will “Here’s the plan Rib Two of us hill launch will go Die go up on this where you saw upstream to the bend One small boat will go the first pine downstream to the other bend and one to the blasted pine up the creek wigwag to the fellows on tiro “Then hill the eh?” cried Rib from boats all m have flu-sty wouldn't l-e 'st taken “Any signal Mart '('hestv’s rigging Rib’s tyinK 1’oppy 'Try other “The so ct 5 up to ’p rowing long” first full the from sir In J they iw-rformed pple nn repl suggested In the I at j “That’suvrrttyslick “Y£kC iind the fellows on the hill can added down to aviation field" “We got everything covered pdppy aJll the country behind the river and Canada shore don’t count that’s all guess" swamp fixed better “Why we couldn't have if we'd made the land" exclakncd the enthusiastic Rib When the two boys reached the camp again Poppy walked to the hangar while tint Rib ran down the path that led tofound The former landing on the cYeek in Jm’k earnest Captain I’hillips and conference "It Oap’n as tW looks to me is just about right an’ tight' "Her engine runs hko Jack was saying a watch too” for unless the coast “No me is clear1’ Mrl’hillips exclaimed tell inside of scouts will you "The twenty minutes whether the coast annouivred Poppy cheerfully not” clear or Pine 1 ’ It fish fish these help held ”' the out Irish an' small-mouth "'rhiy'rc pickerel” "Well certainly wait for the the aviator sponse one of of string bass an’ a up bill them” Just rest of the of there if rivtr 6the Is Signal to the here4 camp “Irish you clear gN e top of the the for boats in the hili thrill found for any give the If sight big circle behind the an' Runt will row down-streairi'So first turn and look out upstream bcniselve-s big pine the “It’s ( 'Semi gi the strep a i I'’’-nilly n reaiimd wius to and level (f -p announuai standing the “Don't look lie teat great commander it 1:1 e right” rejoined tho we’d better fixed for the night We’ll divide we can get through before all “Now -t up at once the work so dark will be (’hesty and Slim you We need wilier and a lot of ngers firewood Marl ymi and Ed do the ooivRing Jonight ilimsa ain’t tired we of fish The rest of us'll y'it up ti o fo'r-v ’ (fv y t-t tent" Thi zz scouts went to work with a will and white soon thecanvas of the new tent tiie patrol's second proudest pnssrs-siun its was dragged from fastenings not far the launch and raised frmn on thi big pine on the shore With experience Ivorn of many night campings in the woods Poppy superintended the digging a draining trench in’ the slope at the upper side of the tent and saw that the guy not tightened ropes were - f Jtndu'- ’'What's ”We emid tiiat mk-d ITf'’” ’em make "Sure” we grimi’ed had bit a ' b'-i Im rain o' ler uj) those new tmp-s pulled ii'l out over tcli mi”’ Hile the !mt vu siiig i: s k lot ’Jtiit water 'm shrink be H whole :i tighter!” Hie pegs the go Hie I i ’ s i 1 1 gi Hie “d I was lrcgM firag'-rs I d if would tent'a wati-r small nd ng tin-m Itq enoti-'h himl axes Inch they like the res H tile otters equipped they a were tamed siu small dead trees which stood in abundance tthnearby Rib Black after tih pigs watcli driving in heTn for a moment willi a smile then tfe'nt to Hie launch and returned wih an ax? “Those Hungs ail for may right sapling: or to cut through a your way ho swamp” explained "but wo want a all lire Hiat'il last is night 'Phis tho thing to do the btiftiness ” And he sank into tho blade the trank of a dead ash some ten inches in l:aineter 'Pho wood Was tougher than he anticipated ami it required several hard tugs to relcaa' tiie ax the others meanwhile- laughing with of TySfx t? A -yr n g a th i'l t I ( “or a moment the boy with below swept the greenwood glasses paused suddenly anxious heart then his Through that It the glasses lire leader pl 1 1 AM ho i ryady" ’em uls4) Til belli th? Mec-wtih-sln ('x-v stringLoys ana to the path follows” And “Come fish disappear'd down the I o Ssl on fl o im'd n get we’i ”Then' Dob'd who received by Jack turned tne VAii his hand Poppy IU There ar me wiri glasses upstream in full sight h the and discerned Husky ut the bow signal ing he reported to “All I'lcar upstream” who again sent the message to Maid the camp asked alout Chesty and Rib was expressing -The s a in thing?” real V a creek once rnpre While they were working over the fish the other boat dime sliding down the profiled by vigorous strokes at (Tel'k lie the hands of Rib Black puw tho up to tiie landinghe itoTiced “Huh DceupuThey tion of the other scouts wed 1 tliought sure get in first” of guys have you “ine hiltchance flrv B‘r retorted Irish scornfully h h the in lishWe want at ’ t ’ ' t ‘ I I 1 ‘ dinner ar complying joined the others es who sevmi Hod Porov aside Inp’or exal moments the two stoodrapidlyearnest and talking consultation Rib Instead I a t 1 ) 'r t v I I discomfiture his Nothing his daunted Rib Re-pt at work ILis soon tihe tree fell companions joined him giving their attention to thedry bram hes while Rib chopped tho trunk Into live-foot lengths and pile of had a wood sufficient for soon the and then 1 - ' Lut m it y the ! in up f I orfe”i®roplanes coming Husky U'se the same signs as Chesty ' opn s) roughing like Hie ' t camo out nineii Chesty vointed ground ahead 'That’s her” to the hilltop you signalin’ the other boat an row and Rib take till you come to a big the creek up broken trunk and blasted pine wiUi a left bank Signal How big arm on the one the latter clear or the creek is just the same if "All clear up the creek” reported the thg woods to the hear anything in you patrol leader adding after a sweep all “and clear behind Shooaround that fallows? Thon get busy “Got off erfglne dutwX is day “ this your Slim were quickly trans-for The two messages with Huslj you’d better go along disappear but aviator mitted and Poppy saw the to the top come with me In sudden Mart you’ll' a few minutes a those glasses Rib of Gimme air It the hill filled the sounded to this humming signals way: We’ll answer your hill like a on thc swarm the I’tTrgry two boys up and&i of down once for Husky UP and and Mart was just bees for Irish and up and down down twice for the I'omparison when the great Chesty” three times height ground At the to duties shape left the hurned their scouts away The of a hundred feet above the trees It turned to the and ttie patrol leader climbing slowly circled the open space n or seemed to “hang then but steadily up and Jack will take the “Captain you stationary for an instant signals You can see the bald top Zsame a swift dart it went out over With of from right here see? After the hill Then signals the river shooting downstream machine the same you get up in tothe tell it circling above the launch will whether anyone came back do you at bend making various evoluthe and Is horizontal sweep coming tions we’ve sighted some one that will tell AoDarentlv satisfied with the tryout three will show which two or The one If coming Captain Phillips after some fifteen minutes sighted them they’re boat in the air allowed the Admiral to hill us from the Indian the behind of over to the in front the hanit’U and down and sink earth be Tour country up r horizontal right after Got that one looked up and down the river Poppy straight?” but neither launch nor boat was tn ge& the Admiral out’ was the “Jack sigflit Up tile creek the stem alone of “Then get in smiling aviator’s answer the word the other boat was visible beneath the the hill and give me sight of blasted pine tf all's clear" camp” might as wefl go back to "We'U give you the signal just as soon “We Mart Poppy as he said “Tbey ve prob’ly all started can” announced we fur houra” and Mart started back to the hilltop i aii’l I out and is locking we’re Lasi il li‘:ul‘r to wound deviously waterway abutting banks and arching tie sunlight and mysterious passed over the jiatrofl as" they -1 look time hr Iw-hind is get b-tter I iigh off a you 'il'eayK -'l’e little The the Mee-wah-sin coming downstream horSmtal signal on u ’ i Poppy and the loats are “The ready for orders” th” patrol lieutenant salute explained with tho leadex "All right” anHWen-d launch up the “Husky you'll take the where there ‘river to the second bend bank pine on the further big white When boat 1 r-'Cl the and the dour t-he ? -1 pa--sat'e smile juncture luky scouts uppi'ared at hangar that at if i - b-mt Admiral way? us” answered f to teri djis v 1 i was f r- Phillips “Well cried Mr willingness but how don’t doubt your find out In that space of time can you his i is ti’U-t !!' b-t xd tlat ’hut ’it -'iii-f-w-i "Hello!” n and Inn j u 1 l‘-s!l on 1! it nodded Mr I'luliips ou cimp biys own tlu-i file boys spent a decision innde laun-’h relomhng U’“ busy afterrvHin equipage and supplies with their I’imu to Before the had ‘begun re-k amid bnigthen they sitarts up the of aviator a chorus tarcwei's from assistants and his anil guides chesty Rib as in the red and the Mts’-wali-sin safe carefully picked mit Ma thi'in 1’ippy guiding the Launch is a 1 1 no T'iu- '' is the remeniRet back called ' headed who "Leave that 1 1 A1 ' repli-d Wv starlfd bills ain't “I see” try-out with m-rnirtg fixer please a have t w mi a here isn't for” sky fare -'all It T 't I ready” a'l I v e s a luh-rst -a! 'eau I rs n welcome " I r- t re i must 11 x I if will that (tamp I' a shall one you think on v fla? ’ tit riJr'i-n on- nv I ' v us le-I'-rr j VI Big V I “Will is in downstream” boat signt other "There replied Poppy nt once lear Mart whe goes of leader moved out the The way and “all the stepping forward gave Mart to signal the camp below clear” man!" old Bax-t'-r i — III H Al' Hll IIUK’ "'it Rhillii-s called Mu from the doer main cabinW the came in sight ami rt from tichan and eim rgi-d 4 Poppy gar “We l cl 1 downstream” 3 platy-fu-i -said -'u'U-s ' aviator decided go mln we’ve lojniii Camp rWr-v ' remarked fish tree L'-C't b'-al’T and e-s CHAPTER ' a ett'i- tiiat-evry ’’ the the th” e'-ry landing' 'Piieir and with I had duty distinct -t or to for rating r I'imp by ournot impose on you any long)rated "t r Sam and BlaiJr have tile leg by iTandy" place th" “creek up anrihd pinf We’ll be to look out frts isi tors just tie’ m‘ Captain I’hillips iniused a meineni grav-ly Jji’-re n'ldying then aw-iy the up pine" Masted v Wlpn disposed of iits-ii turned “Captain le als-jit be - to :fe luii Hot coals and a cok- tip1 til nootl of bod Iff pre-i'an-d n t r 1 " the si lufl'n had few moments laLr leaj’fy fish dinnor thu after move Camp' Aviation t selves li-art- ‘‘Now continued “That’s sweeping “Nothin’ the try I'll I swinging replied Rih that direction the yet Wlvn i---y the over not that immediately the patrol would they retur-neh ou's found that a meal ' to go C'hestv an’ Rib dairi’t hav'' so far to find toe pluee But don't seem tu thmoment swept a" or anxi-iis with greenwood below him I'it:iil suddenly then ins glas-eh d An io ‘'There it is'” he c under tire poking her nose boat just jla'sses easy” as “No oo oug then risk'-d T cldM before f’aptaiiu Baxter came a“ again of crows ana his from was only ilrawfh study of the Admiral iy the loud voices of his companion scouus’as they trooped N th - branches" tjdl teCT-Wi by the “Neither can laughing rejoinder shape” was Rib’s was morc'n -take nician exclaimed "l-lave I tb d-np -ttpsUftam Mee-wah-sin” me” for soon “This climb is too day” fifty timeff a When the- leader and his companion reached the ground their first camp visit was to the wharf but there was of The no-sign the returning boats followed the path back to the han-egar boys t!’e my sand were soon m t cries of aeroplanes under the expert Jack the chief mecha guidance of ‘-on tihe took the ’bout “How two too start leader's reply the nice at reached the top his the binoculars leader trained looking dow’nstream ho reported river to Mart w’bo had the Hags “Nothing in sight yet” lie his Swinging glass looked closely he “There’s the “I salKT flash between the trees” reached the bend’’” they Mart who was graining his eves to behind them the treetops examine- Baxter‘You've he the le PAPER “Can’t more than an them “Thia low altitude scouts had once men e of the patrol the hill will try-out When and slung from a strap binoculars pair of us®3 in the father he re handy jet signal get a could whi'e tell that’s a there easy can pine on the bank” said take ’em” VIxt me eyes” he said after got good razing at the place for some seconds can’t make out “I can see a tree but aS to avia'- the-river” pointed upstream And he minute” was the reply “Wait Rib took his over there ”1 won’t keep you hour" called the make GIRLS' AD BOYS 1 lire camp The remainder of the patrol carried brush secured while logs and improvised a crane on to '"kang the coffee jxt by bending over a Apllng that grew' beside the in the Popjvy' w-iiieh agn-ed-on fireplace i leader listening the patrol right for a dandy place Just “It’s a spring there too us An’ there’s heard Rib conclude the boys then ”AH right” responded Boppy ” ouncil Is voice ’Tention! raised Ids Rib tells me that called again scouts! Chesty struck a great old place he and big to up’ the creek by that camp blasted pine Now was justforthinking thing us to isn’t the right that it hospitality Captain Phillips' Impose on ought to have a reig’lar Besides wo like on” ted planned camp ws Pop” cried Husky “Right you are eagerly “If we were in camp there we around for him anyway” could scout piped Mart “that the “I move” up Camp thl£ into Big Pine patrol g° ( I afternoon' “Second the motion’” shouted Ed in favor—” began We leader “Ml shout settled the matter but a unanimous R question ami beyond was r- - te- and Ed had by this time finished the lish and a long-handled frying produced from the boat While for the fire to sink down to a of coals'' the bed boys carried their blankets from the launch to the tent and dragged the former up the bank This-done all skt Mart was wailing pan expectantly the fire tin The while Mart cooked of plates part the Ul( around fish "fwxut equipment were soon burdened with the smoking food Some of the boys liad'begiinto eat when Irish cried dat “Don't be In such a hurry you guys” I’ve got some potatoi’Tih the ashes and they ought to be ’bout done by now” he Taking a long stick poked around among the emters and one by one dozen black objects dragged out in Rolling one the grass u’tiLit had sufficiently to handle he cooled broke and disclosed a meaJy center open for There instant dash the was in of the risk “spuds" and at added to the fingers the potatoes evening meal SEVEN) TX CONTINUED a it ' s-orched w-ere -VA'IE |
