TOM SLADE
ON THE RIVER
BY
PERCY K. FITZHUGH
Author of
“TOM SLADE, BOY SCOUT OF THE MOVING PICTURES,”
“TOM SLADE AT TEMPLE CAMP” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
WALTER S. ROGERS
PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF
THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1917, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I. The First Arrival 1
- II. Tom Surprises the Camp 17
- III. Roy’s Campfire Yarn 25
- IV. The Old Trail 42
- V. Adventure of the Rescue Party 53
- VI. The Mountain Shelter 63
- VII. “Under Which King?” 80
- VIII. Jeffrey Waring 87
- IX. A New Kind of First Aid 107
- X. The Birthday of the Elk Patrol 113
- XI. Garry’s Story and Harry Stanton’s 127
- XII. Pee-wee Triumphant 138
- XIII. At the Stanton’s 148
- XIV. First Bridgeboro B.S.A. Becomes a Full Troop 164
- XV. Cruising in the “Honor Scout” 170
- XVI. The Invisible Badge 180
- XVII. Lost! 192
- XVIII. The Tragic Adventure of the Freckled Scout 201
- XIX. “So Long—See You Later!” 222
TOM SLADE
ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER I
THE FIRST ARRIVAL
“But suppose they shouldn’t come.”
“Son, when I wuz out in Colorady, in aplace we called Devil’s Pass, I gut a grizzlybacked up agin’ a ledge one day ’n’ heving onyone bullet ’twas a case uv me or him, as yermight say. My pardner, Simon Gurthy,who likewise didn’t hev no bullets, ’count uvbein’ stripped b’ the Injins, he says, ‘S’posin’ye don’t fetch him.’ ’N’ I says, ‘S’posin’ Ido.’”
Jeb Rushmore, with methodical accuracy,spat at a sapling near by.
“And did you?” asked his listener.
Jeb spat again with leisurely deliberation.“’N’ I did,” said he.
“You always hit, don’t you, Jeb?”
“Purty near.”
The boy edged along the log on which theywere sitting and looked up admiringly intothe wrinkled, weatherbeaten face. A smilewhich did not altogether penetrate throughthe drooping gray mustache was visibleenough in the twink