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BOY SCOUTS IN NORTHERN WILDS

Or, The Signal from the Hills

By

MAJOR ARCHIBALD LEE FLETCHER

Author of

"Boy Scout Rivals; or, A Leader of the Tenderfoot Patrol,"
"Boy Scouts on Old Superior; or, The Tale of The Pictured
Rocks," "Boy Scouts' Signal Sender; or When Wigwag Knowledge
Paid," "Boy Scout Pathfinders; or, The Strange Hunt for the
Beaver Patrol" etc., etc.

Chicago, 1913

CONTENTS

Chapter

I—A CAMP ON MOOSE RIVER II—THE LITTLE BRASS GOD III—THE CABIN IN THE SWAMP IV—LOST IN THE STORM V—A BOY SCOUT TRICK VI—THE CAVE OF THE TWO BEARS VII—AM EMPTY CAVERN VIII—A TRAPPER'S TREACHERY IX—TWO HUNGRY BEARS X—BOYS IN A TIGHT PLACE XI—THE HALF-BREED XII—A SURPRISE AT THE CABIN XIII—A FACE AT THE WINDOW XIV—A CALL PROM THE DARKNESS XV—A HUNTING EXPEDITION XVI—ANTOINE ON THE RUN XVII—"BOYS UP A TREE!" XVIII—A PILLAR OF FIRE XIX—THE SIGNAL FROM THE HILLS XX—A SIGHT OF THE GOD XXI—TWO RIFLE SHOTS XXII—THE TWIN BRASS GODS

CHAPTER I

A CAMP ON MOOSE RIVER

Four Boy Scouts, of the Beaver Patrol, Chicago, were in camp onMoose river. They were all athletic young fellows, not far fromseventeen years of age, and were dressed in the khaki uniformadopted by the Boy Scouts of America.

If you take a map of the British Northwest Territories and look upMoose river, you will discover that it runs through nearly threehundred miles of wilderness, from Lake Missinale to Moose Bay. Thereader will well understand, then, how far "Sandy" Green, WillSmith, George Benton and Tommy Gregory had traveled fromcivilization.

The camp of the Boy Scouts was situated some fifty miles up theriver from Moose Factory, a trading point famous in old Indian daysfor its adventurous spirits and its profits to the factors. Thosewho have read the preceding books of this series will doubtlessremember the four Boy Scouts named above. Together they hadvisited the Pictured Rocks of Old Superior, the Everglades ofFlorida, and the great Continental Divide.

During all their journeys the boys had shown courage andresourcefulness beyond their years, and because of these qualitiesthey had been chosen, by Mr. Horton, a noted criminal lawyer ofChicago, to undertake a difficult and dangerous mission to theHudson Bay country.

They had traveled by way of the Canadian Pacific to Missanabie,from which point they had proceeded to Lake Missinale. Here theyhad purchased a "Mackinaw," a great flat-bottomed craft, in whichto transport their tents and supplies down Moose river to the bayof the same name.

They had made most of the journey in native canoes, which they hadlearned to handle with considerable skill, but now and then theyhad taken refuge on the big boat, "just to stretch their limbs," asthey expressed it. They left Chicago late in September and it wasnow almost the last of October.

Those who live in the Hudson Bay country declare that they havethree seasons in four months, Spring comes in June, summer in Julyand August, and autumn in September. At the southern extremity ofJames Bay, October may scarcely be called a winter month, althoughduring the latter part of the month ice and snow are not infrequent.

The sun was setting on the lads' first day in camp as the boysrested from their labor of dragging in great quantitie

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