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                             THE BOY SCOUTS
                                  FOR
                            CITY IMPROVEMENT


                                   BY
                       SCOUT MASTER ROBERT SHALER

        AUTHOR OF "BOY SCOUTS OF THE SIGNAL CORPS," "BOY SCOUTS
        OF PIONEER CAMP," "BOY SCOUTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,"
               "BOY SCOUTS OF THE LIFE SAVING CREW," "BOY
           SCOUTS ON PICKET DUTY," "BOY SCOUTS OF THE FLYING
                  SQUADRON," "BOY SCOUTS AND THE PRIZE
                   PENNANT," "BOY SCOUTS OF THE NAVAL
                      RESERVE," "BOY SCOUTS IN THE
                          SADDLE," ETC., ETC.

                                NEW YORK
                            HURST & COMPANY
                               PUBLISHERS

                            Copyright, 1914,
                                   BY
                            HURST & COMPANY




                               CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER.                                                         PAGE.
  I. Under the Spreading Oak                                           5
  II. A Friend in Need                                                17
  III. The Fire Call                                                  30
  IV. Willing Workers                                                 43
  V. Repairing Damages                                                56
  VI. On Duty                                                         69
  VII. The Alarm                                                      82
  VIII. Mocking the Mayor                                             95
  IX. What Scouts Know                                               108
  X. The Accusation                                                  121
  XI. The Turning Point                                              133
  XII. Thanks to the Scouts                                          151




                  The Boy Scouts for City Improvement.




                               CHAPTER I.
                        UNDER THE SPREADING OAK.


"I guess old summer must have forgotten something and has come back to
find it again, eh, Billy?"

"It feels more like the August dog-days than the tail end of September,
that's a fact