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Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol, by Robert Drake
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Title: The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol
Author: Robert Drake
Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12112] [Date last updated: May 24, 2004]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE EAGLE PATROL
CHAPTER I
SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL
The dark growth of scrub oak and pine parted suddenly and the lithe figure of a boy of about seventeen emerged suddenly into the little clearing. The lad who had so abruptly materialized from the close-growing vegetation peculiar to the region about the little town of Hampton, on the south shore of Long Island, wore a well-fitting uniform of brown khaki, canvas leggings of the same hue and a soft hat of the campaign variety, turned up at one side. To the front of his headpiece was fastened a metal badge, resembling the three-pointed arrow head utilized on old maps to indicate the north. On a metal scroll beneath it were embossed the words: "Be Prepared."
The manner of the badge's attachment would have indicated at once, to any one familiar with the organization, that the la