The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters
The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters by Robert Shaler is available here as the complete text, split into 292 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters by Robert Shaler. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #49967.
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The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II What Presence of Mind Meant
- Chapter III The Threatening Peril
- Chapter IV The Call of Duty
- Chapter V Carried to the Front
- Chapter VI The Burning Forest
- Chapter VII As Busy as Beavers
- Chapter VIII Back-Firing
- Chapter IX Peter, the Bound Boy
- Chapter X At the Dry Spring
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII When the Rain Came Down
- Chapter XIII Right-About Face!
This edition of The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters by Robert Shaler carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #49967, divided into 13 chapters and 292 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Is this the complete text of The Boy Scouts as Forest Fire Fighters?
Yes. All 1459 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #49967 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #49967, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 121 minutes of reading across 292 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Author
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- Scouts
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- Signal
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- Corps
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