Back on the surface the assembly whistle was blown, and the two scoutmasters made themselves comfortable while waiting the arrival of the throng they knew would be eager to inspect the mine.
For the first time the various troops were planning to join forces in a common camp, and for months a committee of scoutmasters had been at work on the details.
When he had described in detail the situation and its advantages and explained the arrangement of the camp which three other scoutmasters and a number of the other boys had gone down ahead to lay out, he paused for a moment or two.
When Court's story had been told over again the scoutmasters decided that the investigation had better be made from the end that Court had stumbled into.
Presently, reaching a small open place among the trees, the scoutmasters paused and waited for the stragglers to come up.
He urges the need of more outdoor education and as many open-air camps as possible, and shows that, if we are to carry out such a scheme as he lays in detail before us, scoutmasters and still more scoutmasters are wanted.
Offer them," he says, "a living wage and how gladly would they become national scoutmasters in charge of national camps.
The two scoutmasters of the arriving troops remained in the bus with the first aid scouts and a queer little codger who seemed to be lame; the others walked.
Scouts worshipped at the shrine of this young confidant of the woods, trustees consulted him, scoutmastersrespected him.
Other scoutmasters sauntered in, and scouts singly and in groups.
What scoutmasters said and thought did not greatly concern him.
The office was a dreadful place, where the mighty John Temple himself held sway on his occasional visits, where councilmen and scoutmasters conferred, and where there was a bronze statue of Daniel Boone.
Only just now," he said, "one of the scoutmasters came to me with a notice from the bulletin board utterly ruined by a tomato which Hervey threw.
This is not a very cheerful welcome to camp," one of the scoutmasters said.
The picturesque young assistant, the very spirit and embodiment of adventure and romance, made a good deal of allowance for visiting scoutmasters and handbook scouts.
Even thescoutmasters and the trustees joined in and old Uncle Jeb kept shouting, "Hooo--ray!
The tepee is a little tent where the scoutmasters always go when they want to be alone, so as to write up troop stuff.
At camp-fire it was just the same only more so, and I noticed across the fire that Mr. Ellsworth and a couple of the scoutmasters were talking together and I guessed they were deciding about getting a searching party started.
That's a nice thing for two scoutmasters to go and see.
The two scoutmasters rowed across and were greeted by their noisy troops and still Peter Piper read his book.
There was surely not much constraint between scouts and scoutmasters in this outfit.
The whole camp followed the two scoutmasters and Norris to the shore, where there seemed likely to be a stampede for the one small boat.
We two scoutmasters and Mr. Wade are going to be the committee.
Perhaps, he thought, it would be well if morescoutmasters were like that.
He suspected that scoutmasters out west must be different.
And indeed there were few scouts, or scoutmasters either, who had followed the trail through the handbook with the dogged patience of Tom Slade.
Neither Uncle Jeb nor any of those formidable scoutmasters or trustees were anywhere near him.
The scoutmasters sat each with his troop, and behind each patrol leader his staff bearing the patrol pennant was stuck in the ground so that one could easily distinguish the different patrols.
After a difficult descent of the hill the boys had been met at the wood's edge by Jeb with more scouts, a couple of visiting scoutmasters and a physician from the not far distant village.
It was not the policy of Jeb Rushmore nor of the scoutmasters and trustees to seek to adjust differences between the scouts and so the golden days (which were all too fleeting for quarrels and bad-feeling) were clouded by this estrangement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoutmasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
