The Banner Boy Scouts

Or The Struggle for Leadership

By GEORGE A. WARREN

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.
CLEVELAND, O. NEW YORK, N.Y.

Copyright, MCMXII
by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER I--A Meeting in the Barn
CHAPTER II--What it Means to be a Boy Scout
CHAPTER III--The Disappearing Coins
CHAPTER IV--The First Scout Leader
CHAPTER V--Checking a Coward
CHAPTER VI--A Strange Suggestion
CHAPTER VII--The Trap that Peleg Set
CHAPTER VIII--Turning the Tables
CHAPTER IX--"Well Done, My Boy!"
CHAPTER X--An Unexpected Offer
CHAPTER XI--Caught Napping
CHAPTER XII--The Rival Troops
CHAPTER XIII--"Fire!"
CHAPTER XIV--Jack's Chance
CHAPTER XV--The Honor Brand
CHAPTER XVI--The Fire Test
CHAPTER XVII--Clearing Skies
CHAPTER XVIII--Carlo Does His Turn
CHAPTER XIX--The Warning Over the Wire
CHAPTER XX--Such Glorious Luck
CHAPTER XXI--The Meeting
CHAPTER XXII--Scouting in Earnest
CHAPTER XXIII--The Red Car
CHAPTER XXIV--A Call for Help
CHAPTER XXV--A Camp in the Woods
CHAPTER XXVI--What Woodcraft Told
CHAPTER XXVII--Ted Finds Something
CHAPTER XXVIII--Forced to Tell
CHAPTER XXIX--The Capture
CHAPTER XXX--Found Out at Last
CHAPTER XXXI--Well Done, Stanhope Troop!—Conclusion

PREFACE

My Dear Boys:

Knowing that ninety-nine lads out of every hundred love outdoor life above all else, I have taken it upon myself to give you a series of what I hope will prove to be clean, wide-awake, up-to-date stories, founded upon a subject that is interesting our whole nation—the Boy Scouts of America. You know what a hold this movement has taken upon the rising generation of our broad land. There never was anything like it before—there never may be again.

At first many people made the mistake of believing that it was simply a new military order, and that boys who joined were to be taught the duties of soldiers, and learned how to fight. They know better now. It is really the greatest movement for Peace ever started. Not only that, but