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Title: Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam

Author: G. Harvey Ralphson

Posting Date: January 30, 2009 [EBook #2191]
Release Date: May, 2000

Language: English

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BOY SCOUTS IN MEXICO

Or On Guard with Uncle Sam

By:

Scout Master, G. Harvey Ralphson

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. Planning a Vacation
II. A Member of the Wolf Patrol
III. The Wolf Advises Flight
IV. The Wolf Talks in Code
V. The Wolf in the Bear's Bed
VI. Two Black Bears in Trouble
VII. Signals on the Mountain
VIII. A Strange Disappearance
IX. About the Third Suspect
X. The Wolf Meets a Panther
XI. Black Bear and Diplomat
XII. Wolf and Panther after Bear
XIII. Captured the Wrong Boy
XIV. The Case is Well Stated
XV. Accusing Each Other
XVI. Wolves on the Mountain
XVII. Plenty of Black Bears
XVIII. Fremont and the Renegade
XIX. What was Found Underground
XX. Black Bears to the Rescue
XXI. Wolves Becoming Dangerous
XXII. The Call in the Rain
XXIII. Some Unexpected Arrivals
XXIV. The Story of the Crime
XXV. Ready for the Canal Zone

DEDICATION.

This book is dedicated to the Boys and Girls of America, in the fond
hope that herein they will find pleasure, instruction and inspiration;
that they may increase and grow in usefulness, self-reliance,
patriotism and unselfishness, and ever become fonder and fonder of
their country and its institutions, of Nature and her ways, is the
cherished hope and wish of the author. G. Harvey Ralphson, Scout Master

BOY SCOUTS IN MEXICO;

OR, ON GUARD WITH UNCLE SAM.

CHAPTER I.

PLANNING A VACATION.

"After all, it is what's in a fellow's head, and not what's in his
pocket, that counts in the long run."

"That's true enough! At least it proved so in our case. That time in
the South we had nothing worth mentioning in our pockets, and yet we
had the time of our lives."

"I don't thin