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BOY SCOUTS IN A SUBMARINE

OR

SEARCHING AN OCEAN FLOOR

By G. HARVEY RALPHSON

Author of
BOY SCOUTS IN AN AIRSHIP
BOY SCOUTS IN MEXICO
BOY SCOUTS IN THE NORTHWEST
BOY SCOUTS ON MOTOR CYCLES

CONTENTS

I. LOST ON AN OCEAN FLOORII. A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITYIII. "THE DANDY SUBMARINE"IV. A WOLF ON THE TRAILV. TWO WOLVES IN A PENVI. NIGHT ON AN OCEAN FLOORVII. THE SECRET OF THE HOLDVIII. ON GUARD UNDER THE SEAIX. "JIMMIE'S FOOLISH—LIKE A FOX"X. A CHASE ON THE OCEAN FLOORXI. JIMMIE GOES OUT HUNTINGXII. JACK MAKES A DISCOVERYXIII. JIMMIE DEMANDS A MEDALXIV. A BOY SCOUT WITH A "PUNCH"XV. A DESPERATE PRISONERXVI. A BLUFF THAT DIDN'T WORKXVII. BAD FOR THE SEA CREATURESXVIII. "MAKING A GOOD JOB OF IT"XIX. ON THE EDGE OF DISASTERXX. AN ENDING AND A BEGINNING

CHAPTER I

LOST ON AN OCEAN FLOOR

The handsome clubroom of the Black Bear Patrol, Boy Scouts of America,in the City of New York, was ablaze with light, and as noisy ashealthy, happy boys could well make it.

"Over in the Chinese Sea!" shouted Jimmie McGraw from a table whichstood by an open window overlooking the brilliantly illuminated city."Do we go to the washee-washee land this time?"

"Only to the tub!" Jack Bosworth put in.

"What's the answer?" asked Frank Shaw, sitting down on the edge of thetable and rumpling Jimmie's red hair with both hands.

Jimmie broke away and, after bouncing a football off his tormentor'sback, perched himself on the back of a great easy chair.

"The answer?" Jack said, after peace had been in a measure restored,"I thought everybody knew that the Chinks wash their clothes in theGulf of Tong King and hang them out to dry on the mountains of KwangTung! Are we going there, Ned?" he added, turning to Ned Nestor, whosat by a nearby window, looking out over the city. "Are we going tothe gulf of Tong King?"

Ned left his chair by the window and walked over to the table.

"I hardly know," he said, taking a roll of maps and drawings from hisbreast pocket and spreading them out on the table. "When Captain Moorearrives we shall know more about it."

"Who's Captain Moore?"

This from Jimmie, still sitting on the back of the chair, elbows onknees, chin on palms.

"Is he going to be the big noise?"

This from Jack Bosworth, who was reaching out with his foot in a vaineffort to tip Jimmie's chair and send him sprawling.

"Is Captain Moore going with us?"

This question was asked by Frank Shaw with a show of anxiety. When outon their trips the Boy Scouts did not relish having older men about toshow authority.

"One question at a time!" laughed Ned. "To answer the first queryfirst, Captain Moore is the Secret Service officer who is to post uswith regard to our mission to Chinese waters. Second he will, to usethe slang adopted by Jack, be the 'Big Noise' as long as he is withus. Third, I don't know whether he is going on the journey with us

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