THE EAGLES IN CAMP The next few days were full of excitement and preparation for the Boy Scouts.

Their headquarters resounded all day to the tramp of feet, and the Manual of Instructions was consulted day and night.

The official tents had arrived, and every boy in the Patrol was eager for the time to arrive to put them up.

So much so that two or three confessed that they could hardly sleep at night in their impatience for the hour when the embarkation for Topsail Island was to take place.
Besides the tents, there was much other equipment to be overhauled and set in order, for, before their departure, the boys were to be reviewed by their scout master and a field secretary from New York.

There were haversack straps to be replaced, laces mended, axes sharpened, "Billys" polished and made to shine like new tin, and a hundred and one things to be done.