IX. A Scout is thrifty--that is, he saves every penny he can, and puts it into the bank, so that he may have money to keep himself when out of work, and thus not make himself a burden to others, or that he may have money to give away to others when they need it. *Quoted by kind permission of General Baden-Powell from 'Scouting for Boys.' CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE 'SLUG' II. THE FOUNDING OF THE WOLF PATROL III. CHIPPY HEARS OF NEW THINGS IV. THE NEW SCOUT V. THE CHOKING-OFF OF CHIPPY VI. CHIPPY CHOPS THEM UP VII. THE PATROL DECIDES VIII. THE PATROL LEADERS IX. THE WOLVES AND THE RAVENS X. THE PATROL'S SURPRISE--A THIEF XI. CHIPPY MEETS A STRANGER XII. DICK AND CHIPPY MEET A SERGEANT--THE QUEER TRAIL--A STRANGE DISCOVERY XIII. ALBERT, WHO WASN'T ALBERT XIV. CHIPPY AND THE SPY XV. FLIGHT XVI. THE SPY IS SEIZED XVII. HOPPITY JACK'S STALL XVIII. CHIPPY'S BAD TIME XIX. A BROTHER SCOUT TO THE RESCUE XX. THE OPINIONS OF AN INSTRUCTOR XXI. CHIPPY GOES ON SCOUT DUTY XXII. CHIPPY GOES IN CHASE XXIII. THE OLD WATER-GATE XXIV. ON BOARD THE 'THREE SPIRES' XXV. A NARROW SHAVE XXVI. CHIPPY MAKES HIS REPORT XXVII. DICK'S GREAT PLAN XXVIII. THE SCOUTS MARCH FORTH XXIX. WINNING A SUPPER XXX. THE FIRST CAMP XXXI. THE BIG TROUT XXXII. TERRORS OF THE NIGHT XXXIII. THE MARCH RESUMED XXXIV. SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE XXXV. A BROTHER SCOUT--THE TWO TRAMPS XXXVI. CHECKMATE XXXVII. AT NEWMINSTER XXXVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND----A DISH OF EELS XXXIX. THE STORM--WHAT HAPPENED WHILE THEY DRIED THEIR CLOTHES XL. THE SCOUTS' SECOND CAMP XLI. THE POACHERS XLII. DRAGGING THE POOL--A LITTLE SURPRISE XLIII. THE BROKEN BICYCLE XLIV. THE BROTHER SCOUT XLV. AT THE HARDYS' FARM XLVI. DICK'S ACCIDENT XLVII. THE LAST CAMP XLVIII. IN THE RAIN XLIX. DIGGING A WELL L. THE OLD HIGGLER LI. THE WELCOME HOME THE WOLF PATROL CHAPTER I THE 'SLUG' 'Now for the Quay Flat!' said Arthur Graydon. 'I say, Dick Elliott, you cut ahead, and see if that crew out of Skinner's Hole are anywhere about! You other fellows, get some stones and keep 'em handy!' A dozen day-boys from Bardon Grammar School were going home one Saturday midday after morning school. All of them lived in a suburb which lay beyond the shipping quarter of the river-port of Bardon, and their way to and from school ran across a wide open space beside the river known as Quay Flat. Below Quay Flat, and packed closely along the edge of the river, was a huddle of small houses and cottages, where lived the poorer sort of riverside workers, a squalid, dirty region known as Skinner's Hole. It was so called because it lay very low, and because hides from abroad were landed there, and dealt with by three or four large tanneries.