boundaries,' and I shall feel mighty proud to go back home knowing
a few of 'them things,' as Injun Joe would say."

This was an unusually serious speech from the imaginative and
sometimes irrepressible Dick, and the boys were correspondingly
moved by it.

"Oh, if it is like _that_," acknowledged Sam Winter, in a different
tone of voice than he had previously used, "we-----"

"We will all want to do our best," finished his brother. "I have
often wondered about the same things on my tramps after photographs
of animals. I've come across lots of queer formations and odd rocks
and natural caves and things."

As Buck ended his remarks a little lamely, Bud Morgan hastened to say,
"You fellows have the idea now,---and mark my word: the Otters are
going to win out!"




CHAPTER XII

AN ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE


That night the Scout Master was much gratified at the interest
manifested by the boys as they assembled around the council fire.
It was plain that they had all found "food for thought" in what he