The Boy Scout Trail Blazers ; Or, Scouting for Uncle Sam on the Pike National Forest by Frank Hobart Cheley

Author:Frank Hobart Cheley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins
Published: 1917-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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control. It -was very xKXxnstial that they had no rain, for notwithstandixx^T "two or three mountain showers there liad been, xio real rainfall for weeks and the whole country ^wst. s "beginning to show it.

"Here come the Ques'fcion Boxes I" laughingly spoke the foreman at th^ Tni ll. ♦ * Those boys know more about the *ifs' a.ix<i 'ands' of this lumber business iiorw than a lot oiP these hands that have been doing nothing else slXI. their lives. They just naturally want to know everything,—from what makes an apparently so-a.xa.<a log hollow in the middle, to what caused one f»lAce to be hard and another place soft in the sa.xxie tree."

« HeUo, BiU I'' caDed tlxe Scouts, as they came to the miU. **Say, what malces some of those big logs just check up at the ceziter until they damage all the lumber, whUe offers rot out at the center completely?**

The head saw-master laugrfaed as he spat on the ground, a merry twinkle m Ixia eye.

"You got me, kids, complefelj.. Why does your mother keep pigsf'rephed the foreman

-WeOl find or^t7ouhet,^> said Sarry, friendly. like. "I*U bet Mr. Kable wiU fcnow, and if h, doesn't Old High will."

"Old High who?" questioned the xaiUman

"Old High T^ker, a friend of the Super, visor's," replied Harry.

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be demedl So that's where they have been hicU ing him. Trying to save him from that nosey Sheriff, ehf WeU, he'U get him yet. Ill bet a donkey engine, cable and alL He's the crazy old duffer that shot up Jacobus some little time ago, ain't hef"

**No, sir, he isn't the man," said Harry, stoutly, '^It was some one else."

**I don't suppose you know nothing about it," continued the mill hand, kindly. '*It was just another verse to a long-standing scrap, I believe, and who can tell but what old Jacobus had it coming to him. Is Old High and this Luke something-or« other the same old duffer f—Been a regular bad actor in his day, so I've been told. Some one was telling me the other night he could cut and trim to perfection more trees in a day than any man that had ever been seen on the range."

'*More than Jaycox, event" questioned Harvey.

"Tes, even more than Jay, and he's some wonder. Say, did you ever see him dress a log? He goes at it like he just had exactly sixteen seconds to live by the alarm dock and had to cut all the rest of the trees in the world before the crack of doom. He's a rip-snorter, there's no getting around it—a regular ring-tailed lallapalooza, but he ain't in it with this Old High Luke you speak of, leastways if you can believe what you hear."

**But High and Luke are two different men," carefully explained Harry. **Luke was the tie-

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catter, but Old High is a pro8i)ector and ex-Foresi Banger. He was badly hurt in an auto aoddent.

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