ess that now reigned in his home; and again
and again did that good little mother send her warmest regards to the
brave lads who had been so instrumental in gaining this great fortune
for the Rawsons, and to whom she must ever feel gratitude of the
deepest kind on account of having her son spared to her.

Of course we shall expect at some future time to once more make the
acquaintance of Thad Brewster and his jolly lot of chums belonging to
the Silver Fox Patrol. With the advent of the new patrol, and other
lads still clamoring for admittance into the troop, Cranford was apt
soon to take a front rank, as a town where the boys were organized for
good. And when so many enterprising lads as Allan, Step Hen, Giraffe,
Bumpus, Bob White, Smithy, Davey Jones, and last, but far from least,
the efficient assistant scoutmaster himself, Thad Brewster, continue
to get together at every available opportunity, winter and summer,
bent on having a royal good time, it may be set down as certain that
lots of remarkable things are just bound to happen, that would make
splendid reading.

But for the present we will have to let Bumpus take his bugle in hand,
and in his customary clever way sound "taps," lights out.

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Transcriber's Note:

Page 1 Added comma after "Timber" in "Through the Big Timber".

Page 4 Corrected spelling of "suggesed" to "suggested" in "of their
attire suggesed".

Page 13 Added closing quotation after "precipice!" in "over the edge
of the precipice!".

Page 17 Corrected spelling of "narnow" to "narrow" in "so many
dangerous narnow paths".

Page 48 Added opening quotation before "but" in "over; but it wouldn't
surprise me".

Page 49 Corrected spelling of "ony" to "any" in "if ony one did have".

Page 53 Corrected spelling of "seemd" to "seemed" in "for it seemd a
monstrous".

Page 63 Moved opening quotation from end of "explain" to beginning
of "One" in "Aleck went on to explain. One of the men knew".

Page 77 Corrected spelling of "an" to "and" in "a while longer, an
canvassed".

Page 93 Corrected spelling of "returnd" to "returned" in "they
returnd once more".

Page 104 Corrected spelling of "Dont" to "Don't" in "Dont move,
Aleck".

Page 122 Added opening quotation to beginning of "this sure takes
the cake".

Page 136 Corrected spelling of "unusal" to "unusual" in "nothing so
very unusal".

Page 153 Added opening quotation to beginning of "so, p'rap