THE BOY SCOUTS
OF THE
SIGNAL CORPS
BY
ROBERT SHALER
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Sterling Boy Scout Books
Bound in cloth Ten titles
- 1 Boy Scouts of the Signal Corps.
- 2 Boy Scouts of Pioneer Camp.
- 3 Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey.
- 4 Boy Scouts of the Life Saving Crew.
- 5 Boy Scouts on Picket Duty.
- 6 Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron.
- 7 Boy Scouts and the Prize Pennant.
- 8 Boy Scouts of the Naval Reserve.
- 9 Boy Scouts in the Saddle.
- 10 Boy Scouts for City Improvement.
You can purchase any of the above books atthe price you paid for this one, or the publisherswill send any book, postpaid, upon receipt of 25c.
HURST & CO., Publishers
432 Fourth Avenue, New York
Copyright, 1914, by Hurst & Company.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I. Great Expectations 5
- II. Forming the Signal Corps 21
- III. A Perilous Encounter 35
- IV. A Fire in Camp 48
- V. Reveille 65
- VI. The Chosen Few 81
- VII. The End of the Hike 97
- VIII. An Unexpected Reproof 113
- IX. The Sham Battle 128
- X. Around the Council-Fire 140
- XI. A Mountain Adventure 152
The Boy Scouts of the Signal Corps
CHAPTER I.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
“Hi! you, Billy Worth!” cried the leader ofthe Wolf patrol, a tall youth of seventeennamed Hugh Hardin, addressing his assistant.“Scramble out of that bunky, my boy, in twowags of a Wolf’s tail, or I’ll have scout’s lawon you!”
“All right, chief! Coming!” was the promptresponse, as Billy, thus adjured, turned overin his bunk and thrust one long leg over theedge.
His bare brown foot, dangling perilouslynear the head of another boy whose bunk wasbeneath Billy’s, proved too great a temptationfor the lad. Pulling a whisp of straw from