Chapter I: Preface

This is not a boys’ “book of adventure” but an imaginary chronicle based upon the setting of an actual cruise. It is believed that there are Sea Scouts who will recognize familiar surroundings and will recall the ideas which are associated with them; and it is hoped that Land Scouts will feel, on the _Bright Wing_, the same spirit that they associate with the inspiration of the camp fire.

A. A. C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I “AFTER YOU, PILOT” 1

II GETTING READY 16

III JACK--CHIEF BOATSWAIN’S MATE 28

IV ALL HANDS ABOARD! 40

V THE FIRST FORENOON AT ANCHOR 56

VI SPORTS BY LAND AND WATER 67

VII UNDER WAY FOR MARBLEHEAD 81

VIII THE SALEM FIRE 92

IX SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE 103

X IN MARBLEHEAD HARBOR 113

XI DICK’S CONFESSION 126

XII ANOTHER MEETING OF THE CLUB 140

XIII A GREEN HAND 148

XIV THE KEY OF THE KEELSON 158

XV SEASICKNESS 168

XVI THE COMMANDANT’S INSPECTION 185

XVII STORM-BOUND AT PROVINCETOWN 194

XVIII A CLEARING SKY AND A FRESH START 208

XIX A RESCUE 222

XX VINEYARD HAVEN 237

XXI DISRATING AND PROMOTION 249

XXII FRIENDLY THINGS AND A NEW POINT OF VIEW 259

XXIII THE FOUR SQUARE CLUB 271

XXIV A GUEST OF THE CLUB 282

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Without thinking of the side-ladder, he dove off the
rail _Frontispiece_

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He wet his thumb and held it up in the air to judge
which way the wind was blowing 52

Dick dove forward on the ground to touch the base 70

She seemed to be measuring the distance to a really
secure footing on Dick’s shoulder 109

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BOY SCOUTS AT SEA