Chapter I: Front Matter

The Boy Scouts
On the Trail

OR

Scouting through the Big Game Country

By HERBERT CARTER

Author of “The Boy Scouts’ First Camp Fire,” “The Boy Scouts
in the Blue Ridge,” “The Boy Scouts on the Trail,”
“The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods,”
“The Boy Scouts In the Rockies”

Copyright, 1913
By A. L. Burt Company

“Did you get him, Thad?” shouted the boys. “Come over here, all of you!”
said Thad. Page 83
—_The Boy Scouts on the Trail._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. What Took the Scouts up into Maine. 3
II. The Troubles of Bumpus. 11
III. A Strange Discovery. 20
IV. The Ignorance of Step Hen. 31
V. The Tell-tale Tracks. 40
VI. A Sheriff’s Posse. 51
VII. The Birch Bark Challenge. 60
VIII. Out for Big Game. 69
IX. “GOOD Shot! Great Little Gun!” 77
X. The Old Trapper’s Cabin. 85
XI. On the Wings of the Night Wind. 96
XII. A Face in the Window. 106
XIII. The Marked Shoe Again. 115
XIV. Figuring It Out. 123
XV. The Luck That Came to Bumpus. 131
XVI. A Little Knowledge, Well Earned. 148
XVII. The Coming of the Hairy Honey Thief. 156
XVIII. A Mighty Nimrod. 164
XIX. The “Whine” of a Bullet. 173
XX. A Wonderful Find. 181
XXI. The Dummy Packet. 190
XXII. The Night Alarm. 198
XXIII. A Flank Movement. 206
XXIV. What Woodcraft Does. 215
XXV. Surprising Charlie. 223
XXVI. The Sheriff Gets His Shock, Too. 231
XXVII. Down the River—Conclusion. 240

THE BOY SCOUTS
ON THE TRAIL