The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie
The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie by Herbert, active Carter is available here as the complete text, split into 443 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Among the Puzzling Swamp Water Trails
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV Some Woods Lore
- Chapter V Bumpus on Guard
- Chapter VI The Night Prowler
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII Looking Backward
- Chapter IX “Combing” the Swamp Labyrinth
- Chapter X Was the Mystery Solved?
- Chapter XI Alligator Smith, the Guide
- Chapter XII What a Scout Stands For
- Chapter XIII More Trouble All Around
- Chapter XIV Swamp Tactics
- Chapter XV Still Bumping Bumpus
- Chapter XVI Ricky’s Post Office
- Chapter XVII The Sheriff’s Round-Up Posse
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI On the Trail
- Chapter XXII The Man-Trap
- Chapter XXIII An Anchor to Windward
- Chapter XXIV The Oasis in the Quaking Bog
- Chapter XXV Playing “Second Fiddle” to a Boy
- Chapter XXVI Polly
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII The Mystery Solved—conclusion
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- Water
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