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

CHAPTER I.
WHAT TOOK THE SCOUTS UP INTO MAINE.

“There never was such great luck as this, fellows!”

“You’re right there, Step Hen; and never will be again, that’s sure!”

“Let’s see; first, there was that silly old epidemic breaking out in our town, and forcing the directors to put up the bars in the school till after the Christmas holidays; that was a great and glorious snap for the Silver Fox Patrol of the Cranford Troop of Boy Scouts, wasn’t it?”

“But that was only a beginning, Giraffe; there were better things still headed our way.”