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Identifier: boyscoutsonbelgi00pays (find matches)
Title: The boy scouts on Belgian battlefields
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Payson, Howard, 1879-1917
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Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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m mowing us down like 276 THE BOY SCOUTS wheat! exclaimed Tubby, commencing to fum-ble in his pocket. Hold up your hands to show that we haveno arms! ordered Rob, abruptly. They areBelgians, and perhaps the same daring fellowswe saw come into Antwerp with all sorts of spoilsto show they had made a raid, and shot downtheir regular allotment of the enemy. Yes, wavethe white bag, if you want. Tubby; we dontmean to take any chances. Its a hard thing to be shot down, and thenhave some one say theyre sorry, and that theydidnt know the gun was loaded, remarked Mer-ritt. The armored car slowed down as it ap-proached. Those vigilant Belgians aboard weredoubtless observing the three figures in khakiclosely. Already they must have discovered thatthey were Boy Scouts. Possibly they more thanhalf expected to find they were Belgian scouts,for such boys were being used as dispatch bear-ers all over the war zone. We are friends! called out Rob, Americanboys, who belong to the scouts over in our coun-
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If you keep on the road . . . you will fall intoan ambush.—Page 277. ON BELGIAN BATTLEFIELDS 277 try, you understand? We have nothing to dowith the war. Do any of you speak English?I can talk in French a little, if its necessary/ The three Belgian soldiers laughed at that.Plainly they had been at a loss to place thesethree lads. I happen to be able to talk English verygood, one of them called out, as the car stopped,*and we are glad to meet you. Americans aregood friends of ours. Listen, said Rob impressively, if you keepon the road you expect to take, so as to folloAvthe German army corps, you will fall into anambush inside of three minutes/ I 278 THE BOY SCOUTS CHAPTER XXV.TURNING The: tabi.e:s. When Rob made this astonishing statement histwo chums suddenly realized that this must bethe matter he had been on the point of explainingto them when the armored car from Antwerpcame tearing along the road in their rear like amodern war chariot. The leader of the three Belgian soldiers, a

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