The Dare Boys MEGAPACK ®: 3 Young Adult Novels of the Revolutionary War by Stephen Angus Cox

Author:Stephen Angus Cox [Cox, Stephen Angus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: united states, boys, young adult, historical, revolutionary war
ISBN: 9781479401796
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII

The Pathfinders

Next morning, after breakfast, Fritz Schmockenburg and Herbert Miller said they would go and reconnoiter the enemy’s position, and see what they were doing.

“Be careful,” said Mr. Santon. “Don’t run into any of the enemy’s traps.”

“We will be careful,” said Miller.

“Yah, ve von’t let dem gatch us,” confidently rejoined Fritz.

So they said good-by, took their departure, and in about twenty minutes were close enough to the British to see that all was quiet in the encampment.

The redcoats were sitting around, talking and taking it easy, and did not seem to have any fear of being attacked, for they did not have any sentinels posted. Doubtless they had not yet learned that a patriot regiment was in the vicinity.

“They’re going to stay there and watch the path, and keep the patriot settlers from leaving the swamp,” determined Miller. “Doubtless the settlers have not very much in the way of food supplies with them on the island, and the redcoats figure on starving them out.”

“Yah, dot is der vay uf id, I bet you,” said Fritz.

Miller was silent and thoughtful a few minutes, and then said: “I wonder if there is another path leading to the swamp?”

“Uf der vos, der patriot seddlers could leave der island,” said the Dutch soldier.

“There might be a path reaching almost to the island,” said Miller. “The path might not be seen from the island, and yet might be reached by making a bridge of a fallen tree, and if that were the case, the settlers could escape.”

“Ve mighd loog for der path, alretty,” said Fritz. “Ve haf nothing else to do.”

“All right, that is what we will do, Fritz. Come.”

They moved slowly and cautiously away, and presently reached the edge of the swamp at a point about a half of a mile from the encampment of the British soldiers. The intervening trees and bushes made it impossible for the redcoats to see them.

They then started along the edge of the shore of the swamp, and kept a sharp lookout for any sign of a solid path. They went slowly, so as to be sure and not by any possibility overlook what they were in search of.

On they went, keeping their eyes on the shoreline, and they had gone perhaps a mile further, when they suddenly came to a point where there was a path leading into the swamp.

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