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Title: The Boy Scouts Afoot in France

or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne

Author: Herbert Carter

Release Date: November 15, 2014 [eBook #47358]

Language: English

Character set encoding: UTF-8

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Those boys would never forget that furious race. It was impressed on their memories after a fashion that time could not efface.
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The Boy Scouts
AFOOT IN FRANCE

OR

With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne

By HERBERT CARTER

Author of
“The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga”
“The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber”
“The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island”
“The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge”
“The Boy Scouts’ First Camp Fire”
“The Boy Scouts in the Rockies”
“The Boy Scouts on the Trail”
“The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium”
“The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie”
“The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods”
“The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna”

Copyright, 1917
By A. L. Burt Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Landed in Antwerp 3

II Held Up on the Border 11

III Down the Slope 20

IV Giraffe on Guard 29

V At Calais, on the Channel 39

VI Caught Between the Lines 48

VII A Narrow Escape 58

VIII The Dangerous Crossing 65

IX With the French at the Front 76

X Giraffe Faces a Serious Charge 87

XI The Battle 98

XII The Wanderings of Bumpus 106

XIII A Thrilling Spectacle 114

XIV Back to the Firing Line 123

XV In the Service of the Red Cross 132

XVI At the French Hospital 141

XVII The Scouts Under Fire 151

XVIII Making History 162

XIX Thad Turns Magician 170

XX Running the Gantlet of Shells 178

XXI At Joffre’s Headquarters 189

XXII The Man Who Saved Paris 198

XXIII Where Victory Was Seized 207

XXIV Headed for Paris 216

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