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                             The Boy Scouts
                              On the Trail


                                   OR

                 Scouting through the Big Game Country

                           By HERBERT CARTER

      Author of "The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire," "The Boy Scouts
           in the Blue Ridge," "The Boy Scouts on the Trail,"
                  "The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods,"
                    "The Boy Scouts In the Rockies"

                            Copyright, 1913
                         By A. L. Burt Company

"Did you get him, Thad?" shouted the boys. "Come over here, all of you!"
                           said Thad. Page 83
                                        --_The Boy Scouts on the Trail._




                                CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
  I. What Took the Scouts up into Maine.                               3
  II. The Troubles of Bumpus.                                         11
  III. A Strange Discovery.                                           20
  IV. The Ignorance of Step Hen.                                      31
  V. The Tell-tale Tracks.                                            40
  VI. A Sheriff's Posse.                                              51
  VII. The Birch Bark Challenge.                                      60
  VIII. Out for Big Game.                                             69
  IX. "GOOD Shot! Great Little Gun!"                                  77
  X. The Old Trapper's Cabin.                                         85
  XI. On the Wings of the Night Wind.                                 96
  XII. A Face in the Window.                                         106
  XIII. The Marked Shoe Again.                                       115
  XIV. Figuring It Out.                                              123
  XV. The Luck That Came to Bumpus.                                  131
  XVI. A Little Knowledge, Well Earned.                              148
  XVII. The Coming of the Hairy Honey Thief.                         156
  XVIII. A Mighty Nimrod.                                            164
  XIX. The "Whine" of a Bullet.                                      173
  XX.