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Title: The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium

Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies

Author: Herbert Carter

Release Date: September 25, 2014 [eBook #46968]

Language: English

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THE BOY SCOUTS
On War Trails In Belgium

OR

Caught Between Hostile Armies

By HERBERT CARTER

AUTHOR OF
“The Boy Scouts First Campfire,” “The Boy
Scouts in the Blue Ridge,” “The Boy Scouts
on the Trail,” “The Boy Scouts in the
Maine Woods,” “The Boy Scouts
Through the Big Timber,”
“The Boy Scouts in the
Rockies,” “The Boy
Scouts Along the
Susquehanna.”
Etc.,

Copyright, 1916
By A. L. Burt Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The News That Reached the Rhine. 3

II. A Bold Undertaking. 12

III. Giraffe Makes a Bargain. 19

IV. The Blocked Way to the Border. 28

V. At the Ferry. 37

VI. Scout Tactics. 45

VII. Dodging Trouble. 54

VIII. The Country of Windmills. 63

IX. At a Wayside Belgian Inn. 71

X. The Throb in the Night Breeze. 80

XI. Warned Off. 89

XII. The Penalty of Meddling. 98

XIII. Repentant Bumpus. 106

XIV. More Hard Luck. 115

XV. At the End of a Tow Line. 124

XVI. The German Raiders. 132

XVII. A Man in the Tree Top. 141

XVIII. Good Samaritans. 149

XIX. The Battle at the Bridge. 158

XX. Victory in Defeat. 167

XXI. The Call for Help. 176

XXII. Up from the Depths. 184

XXIII. “A Tempest in a Teapot.” 193

XXIV. The Ambuscade. 202

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