The Boy Scouts on the Yukon

he "r's," as he drummed impatiently on the shutter of the cabin window, while his companion, Jack Blake, performed a

her drowsy face of Randolph Peyton peered forth

on it's been daylight all night, for it surely wasn't dark

he Alaska Steamship Company, which was plowing her way through the quiet waters

, but the sun was high, and the day i

. "You've already had seven hours' sleep, and

tter's bunk mate, Dick Wilson, who gazed out a little resentfully, as they threw b

at this time of year, and I suppose Don thinks it's an a

get further north, and I suppose Don will s

four who had been routed out of their bunks, through the energy of Jack, who, brought up in a newspaper office and

d Jack, "and we've a few things in that line,

e waters from the long swells of the North Pacific. Although it was the latter part of April, early in the year for these

clothed the mountains of British Columbia came down to th

o the mile," said Rand, drawing a lo

h a great country," remarked Don, catching at Rand's

th enthusiasm as the laugh over Don's serious remark die

cut out' the bugle calls on this trip. He says they have an official bugler aboard, for the call to meals and for the salute at landings, and we

iately apparent in the murmurs of approval which greeted Jack's suggestion. To those who have followed the career of the Boy Scouts of Cresto

ed to which are told under the title of "Boy Scouts' Motorcycles," in the course of which Jack is captured by moonshiners on whom the boys turn the tables. "Boy Scouts' Canoe Trip," brings the chums into conflict with Sound pirates, during a canoe trip along the Long Island shore, and give Pepper and Dick, who are lost in a fog, a chance to help a foghorn operator of the United States Lighthouse Service, out of a very serious

ves of a glider with which they win a contest of these elementary aircraft, the prize being complete airship motors of the highest efficiency. With these engines they equip two aeroplanes and meet with various advent

ral years on friendly terms with the boys; had been the means of inducing them to form the Scouts' Patrol, and had looked after their promo

se, discussing plans for a Scout encampment, of the Patrols of the nearby towns

ence by an actual encampment, this summer-sort of 'Spring maneu

said Colonel Snow. "That's what I'm here for, and if you have

d Pepper, flippantly, amid repro

that without shivering in your

s appetite is like the poor, it's

indulgently upon the s

y prove one of the best of assets in this propositi

," every member on his feet a

mer residence in the Sunny South inclined him

government, for services of various kinds, and I am now intrusted with a mission in the Controller Bay region of Alaska, in connection with certain coal deposits and reservations. In our trip to the Canadian Rockies, I secured personally, as an investment, certain timbe

you Scouts in the field, in the Northwest, indicates to me that you can be as useful to me as anyone I could pick up. It will also give you a chance to see for the first time a new and growing country, by which you are bound

ith the Colonel when final arrangements were made. The boys, who had already banked three dividends from the Uncas mine, now a well paying property, were to outfit themselves, Colonel Snow paying all other expenses to, in and from Al

i and even yearn for linen. Even if we should reach the Arctic Circle in winter, you will remember that our latest Arctic

ston they were holding a final meeting at the

e c-c-an s

appetite?"

the ivory

; your head?

lor and whose fists were doubled up. "I mean that ivory-that na

t get all that ivory," put

autious Don, "that there's more than five hundred and ninety thousand squar

aginations of the boys, when, followed by the good wishes of relatives, neighbors and friends, they entrained the next morning like true s

ys of sightseeing in the Washington metropolis, boarded the "Queen," and at ten o'clock at nig

nothing to do with Colonel Snow's enterprises. Despite the fact that it weighed more than half a ton, the boys had clubbed together to pay the rather exorbitant freight c

e them a hearty good morning. He had just redrawn their attention to the magnificent land and waterscape, with the remark that Major General Greeley, of Arctic fame, had made ten voyages to Alaska, and on each trip found some new wonder in the "Inside Passage" when

jackknife, fell back against the gangway gate, which had not been properly fastened, and shot through it into the tideway, here very swift, and disappeare